President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be...

There was a love fest this Friday between presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez during a visit the Brazilian leader paid to...

He’s crossed swords, over the years, with all the usual right-wing suspects, from car-makers to gun owners to Wall Street executives, health companies, and George...

Hugo Chavez’s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services —...

Venezuela’s autocrat Hugo Chavez has gone after the opposition, labor unions, media, term limits, courts, foreign businesses, domestic businesses and anything...

Porlamar, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi signed a declaration on Monday night decrying what they call attempts by...

Talk like a communist, walk like a democrat. That has been the paradoxical strategy pursued by Latin America’s new radical left — at least until now. Venezuelan...

I have little or no respect for the United Nations - primarily because they insist on hosting some of the worst leaders on the face of the earth today whenever they...

President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday alleged that U.S. intelligence agencies were behind a purported assassination plot that prevented him from visiting El...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he would be willing to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which U.S. President Barack Obama has said he...

It seems Mr H. Chavez lost gradually even a shadow of non-negative observers worldwide: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela’s government is expelling the Israeli...

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya recently signed up to Chavez’s Pan-South American grouping the ‘Bolivarian Alternative to the Americas’; a collection...

Hugo Chavez, the dictator of Venezuela, referred to President Bush as Comrade Bush and said Bush has moved “left” in the financial crisis. Normally, I would...

To win allies and forge an anti-American front, Mr Chavez sells oil to friendly countries at low prices. Ironically, the only big customer buying Venezuelan oil at the...

Of all the European countries, Portugal seems to have found a special place in the heart and mind of Venezuela’s maverick President Hugo Chavez.

The nine fields discovered in the last year are thought to hold 50 billion to 80 billion barrels of light crude — more than four times Brazil’s current...

Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a...

In much of the popular political debate in English speaking media, issues of defense and economy often shape the question of what is considered a democracy. Defensive...

El mandatario venezolano destaca el buen clima de entendimiento con el Gobierno español y la amistad que mantiene “desde el primer día” con Juan Carlos...

Chavez sent the uncharacteristically strong message to the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, saying their ongoing efforts to overthrow...