Caracas, Venezuela News

Today is Thursday, July 24, the 206th day of 2008. There are 160 days left in the year.

Today is Thursday, July 24, the 206th day of 2008. There are 160 days left in the year.

A British man said he is "absolutely distraught" after someone stole a bike he rode at least 6,000 miles through 13 countries.

Venezuela may purchase weaponry from Russia worth $5 billion over the next 10 years, a Russian political analyst said on Wednesday.

Hugo Chavez has called for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect Venezuela from the US.

Months after the infamous "Why don't you shut up?" incident Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez offered to hug Spain's King Juan Carlos if they meet again.

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By Frank Jack Daniel CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visits a resurgent Russia this week on an arms shopping trip that raises the anti-US leader's profile and will irritate his hosts' rivals in ...

Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged kids to embrace socialism, raising the ire of educators and parents who turned back the Venezuelan president's earlier proposal to rewrite textbooks to add socialist doctrine.

Chavez celebrated a Venezuelan holiday promoting children's welfare by telling a group of adolescents to become socialists with the monk-like mission to serve the poor that was espoused by Cuban revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.

'We must study socialism,' said Chavez, telling the children they should read Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels _ authors of the 'Communist Manifesto' _ along with other socialist thinkers.

Caracas, Jul 16 Operation Vision Now, eye surgery program promoted by Cuba and Venezuela, currently covers over twenty difficult access areas in Venezuela, benefiting 12,000 inhabitants.

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and his daughter Rosa Virginia, left, speaks to Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, right, upon their arrival to Manta, ...

Seventeen countries in Central America and the Caribbean are to make down payments of only 40 percent on Venezuelan oil, while cooperating to expand their food supply, and calling on the North to take measures ...

Caracas, Jul 13 A memorable Black Swan pas de deux by National Ballet of Cuba First Dancers Viengsay Valdes and Romel Frometa closed Ballet World Fiesta in Caracas.

Venezuelans are celebrating their fifth victory in the Miss Universe pageant. Some Venezuelans in Caracas shouted and cheered while watching the pageant on television when 22-year-old Dayana Mendoza was crowned ...

Demonstrators, holding a Venezuelan flag, march during a protest in Caracas, Saturday, July 12, 2008.

Demonstrators, holding a Venezuelan flag, march during a protest in Caracas, Saturday, July 12, 2008.

Smiles, handshakes and talk of peace and brotherhood put an official end to eight months of tension between Colombia and Venezuela, as Presidents Hugo Chvez and Alvaro Uribe met Friday at the Paraguan oil ...

Havana, Jul 9 Director of BNC , Alicia Alonso, will travel to Caracas in late July to give final touches to her Giselle version to be premiered at the Teresa Carreno Theater on August 2. BNC sources said this ...

" A report released Monday by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control accuses the Venezuelan government of sheltering Hizbullah members, helping raise funds for the Lebanese terror ...

Judith Escalona visits the General Cemetery in southern Caracas at least once a month.