rosecutors and police raided a stockbroking company Wednesday in connection with Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque’s decision last month to place four...

I think one has to qualify as an idiot before becoming a leader of a communist country......the Castro brothers in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, are 3 of many...

President Hugo Chávez rolled out the welcome mat here on Wednesday for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, using the visit to strengthen Venezuela’s political...

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support for his country’s nuclear ambitions and expanded his reach in Latin America in a three-country goodwill tour that...

Idi Amin was called the ‘Butcher of Uganda’ during his reign of terror from 1971 to 1979. Though no-one knows exactly how many people he had murdered and...

Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico — to its list of the 67...

Conditions are fastly declining in Venezuela. Inflation is up, water and power supply are down, and Chavez is becoming more and more unpopular with his current rating...

President Chávez came to power promising to harness Venezuela’s vast oil resources to create a 21st-century nation in which no one was deprived. Now, with water and...

Venezuela’s authoritarian leader is not cutting his own power, just the literal power of millions of Venezuelans. The majority who voted for Chavez twice and for...

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

He was the man who saved Hugo Chávez when all seemed lost. A coup had ousted Venezuela’s president and buried, it seemed, his leftist experiment. General Raúl...

ntonio Lezama, one of Venezuela’s main opposition leaders has been invited to address Brazilian Senate committees which are currently considering the long debated...

President Hugo Chávez’s government says Julio Cesar Rivas is a violent militant intent on fomenting civil war. Rivas’s supporters say the 22-year-old...

More than 150 Venezuelan university students ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the Organization of American States agreed to hear their concerns over alleged...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he is disappointed by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and concerned he is increasingly shifting toward an authoritarian...

President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he’s mulling the possibility of allowing Venezuela’s air force to shoot down suspected drug planes, but he is not...

Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela over $2bn (£1.2bn) to buy weapons, President Hugo Chavez has said. The credit will be used to purchase nearly 100 tanks and a...

The American continent, if not the whole world, holds extreme opinions about Chavez: love or loath. Colombia is not different, as the hundreds of Colombians shouting...

Venezuela will recognise the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, President Hugo Chavez says. Venezuela will become the third country to support...

Critics of Hugo Chavez marched in cities across the globe Friday, calling the Venezuelan president a dictator and violator of human rights.