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Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas said tensions between Caracas and Bogota should be taken up by the Union of South American Nations, a 12-member organization known as Unasur.

Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on September 24, 2009 in New York City.

Venezuelan authorities have captured a former Colombian official wanted for collaborating with outlawed right-wing paramilitary fighters.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. For global distribution. CARACAS, Venezuela Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter." Chavez mentioned the Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Sanchez Ramirez during a speech saying: "I defend him.

Caracas, Nov 16 Thousands VUSP members elected 772 delegates to the Venezuela United Socialist Party's Extraordinary Congress that will be held next Saturday, reported the director of the organization Jose Rodriguez.

Caracas, Venezuela - Esther Benchimol de Roffe arrived in Venezuela as a young bride, leaving northern Morocco more than 50 years ago to meet her groom in a prosperous foreign land.

TENSIONS mounted between rival South American nations Venezuela and Colombia on Tuesday as Caracas accused Bogota of detaining four of its soldiers in international waters.

CARACAS: American imperialism remains an issue, but Hugo Chavez has identified a new threat to Venezuela's socialist revolution: obesity.

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez is inviting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro to next month's meeting of the regional ALBA trade bloc being held in Havana.

Thousand Venezuelans will join a march against the US military bases in Colombia in respond to the call of Venezuela United Socialist Party .

Buried in a story about former MLB pitcher Victor Zambrano's mother being rescued from a recent kidnapping ordeal in Venezuela is this bit of information on former Pirate Jose Castillo: Another former MLB player, Jose Castillo, was attacked by armed men on motorcycles as he left his luxury hotel in a taxi on Tuesday.

CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez's government on Wednesday nationalized two coffee companies, including Fama de America, one of Venezuela's largest coffee producers.

Caracas, Venezuela -- The mother of former major league pitcher Victor Zambrano has been rescued after a three-day kidnapping ordeal, Venezuelan authorities said Wednesday.

This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of the world's mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and water shortages that seem only to be getting worse.

Venezuela and Iran are considering a wide-ranging energy cooperation deal that will give Iran a sanctions-busting option to import up to 20,000 barrels a day of gasoline from this Latin American country.

Prosecutors say a lone gunman approached Gustavo Gonzalez, a member of the Copei opposition party, a4 a restaurant, fatall9 shot the politician in the head and fled on a motorcycle driven b9 an accomplice.

Venezuelan Jewish groups have partnered with a leading developer to restore the oldest existing Jewish cemetery in South America.

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.

Swine flu linked to seven deaths in Amazon Nov. 5: The swine flu virus is suspected in seven deaths among Venezuela's Yanomami tribe.

A key figure in charge of security in the Venezuelan capital Caracas was shot to death in an attack over the weekend, police sources told local media in Caracas.