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While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.
Venezuela's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu among isolated Amazon Indians has been contained.
Ten men who belonged to the same soccer team were slain execution-style nearly two weeks after being abducted in a crime that Venezuela said Sunday could be the work of warring factions in neighboring Colombia.
President Hugo Chavez's popularity has slipped and a majority of Venezuelans view the situation in their country negatively, according to a poll published Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi signed a declaration Monday night decrying what they call attempts by powerful Western countries to equate struggles against colonialism with terrorism.
Hugo Chavez made diplomatic inroads in Africa on Sunday at a summit of South American and African leaders where he offered Venezuela's help in oil projects, mining and financial assistance.
The government of President Hugo Chavez is preparing to impose new regulations on cable TV, the head of Venezuela's cable television chamber said Wednesday.
Hugo Chavez wants to join the nuclear energy club and is looking to Russia for help in getting started.
U.S. military officials on Thursday defended a proposed agreement to use seven Colombia bases, saying the deal would not change U.S. missions in Colombia nor increase the allowed number of troops.
President Hugo Chavez's government criticized a U.S. congressional report on drug trafficking in Venezuela, saying Tuesday that relations cannot be normalized as long as Washington keeps passing judgment on the nation's internal affairs.
A U.S. envoy who was expelled last year by President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he hopes to re-establish dialogue after resuming his post in Venezuela.
The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela has returned to his post — more than nine months after he was expelled by President Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela and the United States said Wednesday they will restore their ambassadors more than nine months after President Hugo Chavez expelled the U.S. envoy in his final diplomatic bout with the Bush administration.
The program begins with upbeat music that sounds like a game show theme. Colors shimmer across the screen, and the title appears: "Hello, President."
Venezuelan prosecutors said Thursday they will arraign the president of an opposition television station on charges related to his car dealership business.
Orchestras for children and teenagers inspired by Venezuela's trendsetting network of youth orchestras have been springing up from Sao Paulo to Scotland as international interest explodes, the program's founder said Friday.
President Hugo Chavez's government plans to reactivate its demand this week for the U.S. to extradite a former CIA operative accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane, a lawyer for the Venezuelan government said Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has for years funneled state oil income into sweeping social programs, vowed Sunday to cut nonessential state spending and order a review of top officials' salaries as oil income plunges.
President Hugo Chavez's timing was impeccable, scheduling the vote that ended term limits at what may be the last possible moment before the global financial crisis wreaks havoc on Venezuela's oil-based economy.
Ramshackle homes with dirt floors straddle the highway in the forested hills outside Venezuela's capital. So it was before Hugo Chavez came to power a decade ago, and so it is today.
U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone said he sees Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as an energetic, principled champion of change in Latin American and hopes to capture the spirit of his drive to roll back U.S. influence in an upcoming documentary.
President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that Venezuela's program to provide heating oil to poor American families was never halted, despite concerns that deliveries might be interrupted.
Venezuela's slumping oil earnings are starting to squeeze President Hugo Chavez's public spending spree and curb the international aid he uses to counter U.S. influence.
President Hugo Chavez says he was heading through downtown Caracas when he was shocked by the sight of a huge, nearly finished shopping mall amid the high-rise offices and apartments.
President Hugo Chavez ordered construction halted on a major shopping mall in Caracas on Sunday, saying the government will expropriate the unfinished building.
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