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Campaigning to fill the 165 seats of Venezuela’s National Parliament came to an end Thursday with President Hugo Chávez and his foes both vowing to emerge victorious from Sunday’s vote.
Pollsters say the election is too close to call, with both...
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Colombia’s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, moved on Tuesday to repair diplomatic relations after ties had sharply...
made popular Aug 11 2010
Most historians have accepted that Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century hero of Venezuelan independence, died from tuberculosis on 17 December 1830, aged 47, and that his...
made popular Jul 22 2010
Rory Carroll reports from Venezuela where, in an effort to sustain food production based on government-subsidised stores and restaurants, Hugo Chávez is criminalising...
made popular Jun 29 2010
You could call Omar Cedeño many things: a class traitor; a tool of international capitalism; a criminal suspect; even an enemy of Hugo Chávez’s socialist...
made popular Jun 28 2010
Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez intends to inject new urgency into his socialist, anti-imperialist revolution because, he says, there is clear evidence that...
made popular Jun 14 2010
I have always been attracted by the romance of Latin America. I was about 13 when I saw the documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and I was utterly taken in....
made popular May 17 2010
A Spanish judge yesterday accused the government of president Hugo Chávez in Venezuela of involvement with the Basque terrorist group Eta, sparking a diplomatic row...
made popular Mar 2 2010
President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez caused a stir today when he compared the Copenhagen Climate Summit to an “imperial dictatorship” and blamed capitalism for...
made popular Dec 17 2009
When Venezuela’s Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo ChÁvez impishly asked, “So how’s the...
made popular Oct 10 2009
A report for the U.S. Congress on drug smuggling through Venezuela concludes that corruption at high levels of President Hugo Chávez’s government and state aid...
made popular Jul 20 2009
Dreaming of a new life, Ramón Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm here in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chávez’s populist...
made popular Jun 20 2009
For the past decade, analysts have debated whether the administration of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is democratic. This debate now seems settled.
Over the past...
made popular Jun 11 2009
Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
made popular May 25 2009
“What occurs today is that new winds blow in Latin America and old ideas considered buried are springing up, Bolivar’s ideal, for instance, and socialism ideals...
made popular Dec 18 2008
Because of the structure of the economy, where the principal and most productive resource and industry of the country belong to the Government, the Venezuelan people...
made popular Sep 22 2008
In 1998, the political offer that convinced many Venezuelans to vote for Hugo Chávez was Change. But what the majority of Venezuelans have forgotten is that the...
made popular Sep 20 2008
To understand Hugo Chávez, you must understand the relationship between the country and its principal resource and industry:
Petroleum.
In Venezuela, the owner of the...
made popular Sep 10 2008
The past weekend, Hugo Chávez, the president and strong man of Venezuela, threatened his opponents with the approval of twenty-six more laws. He used a little more...
made popular Sep 2 2008
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If it were possible to say that in South America there is some kind of regional political leadership, that would be divided between Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio...
made popular Jun 27 2008
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