Caracas, Venezuela News

LA PAZ: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Bolivia for a short visit on Tuesday, the second leg of a Latin America tour of three leftist nations sympathetic to his administration.

Unfazed by a recession and rampant inflation, image-conscious Venezuelans show no signs of cutting back on the facelifts, liposuction, and breast augmentation that have become de rigueur beauty treatments.

Guyana and Venezuelan authorities agreed to strengthen cooperation to combat the drug trade during a meeting in the Venezuelan capital earlier this month.

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.

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A stall selling arepas, the kind of snack Hugo ChA vez has urged Venezuelans to cut out.

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas issued an alert reminding travelers that political demonstrations are frequent in Caracas and other cities, and in the past they have involved tear gas, gunfire and other violence.

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.

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

Caracas Brooklyn has secured their liquor license, and true to their Venezuelan inspiration, has introduced a bar focusing on rum.

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

Published Thursday 12 November 2009 07:16pm EST. One of my least favorite aspects of winter is how quickly night falls.

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.