04/05/2013 | World

Idea that American held by Venezuela is a spy 'ridiculous,' Obama says

The Venezuelan government's suggestion that an American citizen it has detained is a spy is "ridiculous," US President Barack Obama said in a television interview during a visit to Costa Rica.

13/04/2013 | Latin America

Pro-Chávez Venezuelans mark coup anniversary on eve of election

Hugo Chávez loyalists on the eve of a presidential vote celebrated across Venezuela a milestone in the late leader's socialist revolution, irking the opposition that complained of a campaign tipped in favor of the government.

08/05/2013 | Latin America

Maduro and CFK sign eleven bilateral agreements

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner signed eleven bilateral agreements in strategic areas such as energy, agriculture and science at the Government House, where both presidents discussed key topics of the cooperation between two countries.

10/04/2013 | Latin America

Venezuela's opposition denies it would scrap Chavez welfare aid

Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles denied accusations from acting President Nicolás Maduro that he would scrap popular welfare policies if he wins Sunday's election.

11/04/2013 | Latin America

Maradona attends Maduro's closing campaign rally

Nicolás Maduro’s closing campaign rally had a special guest with Diego Maradona giving a celebrity boost to Venezuela’s colorful presidential elections that will test Hugo Chavez’s socialist legacy.

13/04/2013 | Latin America

Venezuela says it foiled plot to destabilize presidential vote

Venezuela's government said it foiled a plot to destabilize Sunday's presidential election, the latest in a flurry of claims that the opposition has derided as crude attempts to distract voters from the country's problems.

21/03/2013 | Latin America

Venezuelan police fire teargas at election clash

Police fired teargas to control a flare-up in downtown Caracas between anti-government student protesters and supporters of the late President Hugo Chávez in an increasingly volatile atmosphere ahead of next month's election.

30/03/2013 | Latin America

Maduro calls Venezuela opposition 'heirs of Hitler'

Venezuela's acting President Nicolás Maduro called the country's opposition "heirs of Hitler," accusing them of persecuting Cuban doctors working in the South American country the way Jews were persecuted in Nazi Germany.

05/04/2013 | Latin America

Venezuela's Maduro says campaign sabotage suspects arrested

Acting President Nicolás Maduro said that Venezuelan authorities had arrested several people suspected of plotting to sabotage one of his campaign rallies before an April 14 election by cutting the power.

23/01/2013 | Latin America

Venezuela's VP says he's target of assassination plot

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro said unidentified groups had entered the country with the aim of assassinating him and the head of the National Assembly as President Hugo Chávez recovers from cancer in Cuba.

06/03/2013 | Latin America

Maduro: from bus driver to Chavez's successor

15/03/2013 | Latin America

Venezuelans flood streets for Chávez coffin parade

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans were on the streets again today at a funeral parade for Hugo Chávez amid opposition protests that the government was exploiting his death to win the election.

10/10/2012 | Latin America

Venezuela's Chávez names Maduro as vice-president

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez named Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro as his new vice-president in the first change of his cabinet after Sunday's re-election.

03/01/2013 | Latin America

Chávez still has 'severe' respiratory problem

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is still suffering from a lung infection that has hindered his breathing as he battles to recover from Dec. 11 cancer surgery, the government said today.

05/01/2013 | Latin America

Venezuela lawmakers elect Chávez ally as Assembly chief

Venezuelan lawmakers re-elected a staunch ally of Hugo Chávez as leader of the National Assembly today, putting him in line to be caretaker president if the socialist leader does not recover from cancer surgery.