President Hugo Chávez bid Venezuelans an emotional farewell as he departed for Cuba for surgery to remove a tumour he says is probably malignant.
Hugo Chavez to face stiff competition from youthful presidential hopeful.
President Hugo Chavez says an unidentified nuclear-powered submarine was chased from Venezuelan territorial waters by his navy this week.
In a move that will make the finances of Venezuela even murkier, President Hugo Chávez has announced he will nationalise the country’s gold industry.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez vowed to win re-election next year, saying his struggle with cancer is helping to strengthen his political movement.
In his continued fight against cancer, President Hugo Chávez has announced his plans to fly back to Cuba to begin chemotherapy.
In his first live appearance since undergoing emergency pelvic surgery in Cuba on June 10, Chávez said doctors had removed "cancerous cells".
Venezuela’s President Chávez hasn’t been since an operation on June 10, sparking rumours that he is either very ill — or plotting a political ambush.
When former minister Barbara Hogan, expressed fears about rising "authoritarian populism" in the ANC alliance, she attracted attention.
Residents of the village on Chuao in mountainous northern Venezuela simply say: behold the world’s best cocoa.
President Hugo Chávez has urged Venezuelans to cut their calories — the latest lifestyle recommendation by the socialist crusader.
China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.
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/ 25 October 2010
Russia has agreed to help Venezuela build its first nuclear power station in a move likely to raise concerns.
Unlike in Europe, the left in Latin America is still winning elections — albeit with difficulty.
A jailed judge tweets to her followers from prison. The director of an opposition TV station uses Twitter to denounce a conspiracy to oust him.
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/ 18 December 2009
Venezuelan police have arrested a judge whose ruling allowed a prominent prisoner to go free.
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/ 12 November 2009
Colombia took what it called threats of war from neighbouring Venezuela to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.
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/ 19 October 2009
Chavez takes Venezuela deeper into repression as he neutralises his foes, writes Rory Carroll.
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/ 18 October 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said on Saturday Iran is helping his country explore for uranium.
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/ 13 October 2009
He was the man who saved Hugo Chávez, but General Raúl Baduel is now stripped of power and facing charges that could keep him in jail for decades
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/ 28 September 2009
Hugo Chávez made diplomatic inroads in Africa on Sunday at a summit of South American and African leaders where he offered Venezuela’s help.
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/ 26 September 2009
President Hugo Chávez urged colleagues from Africa and South America to help form a ”multipolar” world on Saturday at a summit.
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/ 6 September 2009
Thousands of Venezuelans marched on Saturday in protests against President Hugo Chávez while thousands of his supporters held their own rallies.
Barack Obama is ”lost in the Andromeda” galaxy on Latin American policy, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, said on Sunday.
Venezuela has revoked the licences of dozens of radio stations as part of a wider crackdown which could see people deemed guilty of ”media crimes”.
More than a dozen of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday.
When Hugo Chávez told Barack Obama he wanted to be his friend, there appeared to be a chance he would tone down his anti-US rhetoric.
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said on Sunday his counterpart Barack Obama was at best an ”ignoramus” for saying he exported terrorism.
Hugo Chavez is famous for nationalising farms, factories and oil rigs but his latest appropriation comes closer to body snatching.
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/ 16 February 2009
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez won a referendum vote on Sunday that lets him stay in power for as long as he keeps beating his rivals.
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/ 15 February 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Sunday gambles on a bid to lift his presidential term limit, with a view to spending another decade in power.
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/ 9 February 2009
Oil fluctuations and high inflation threaten revolution, writes Rory Carroll.