Caracas, Venezuela News

Caracas, Jul 4 The Venezuelan economy continues to strengthen as its international reserves increased to 30.5 billion dollars at the beginning of July in spite of the world economic crisis.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return to Honduras on Sunday accompanied by a handful of Latin American leaders, stirring up fears of a violent showdown in the polarized nation.

The media campaign to distort the truth about Honduras was denounced in Caracas on Friday by Chair of the Venezuelan Parliament Committee on Science, Technology and Social Communication, Manuel Villalba.

VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: The Solidarity with The Basque People has organized another rally in front of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Caracas protesting against the possible extradition of Inaki Etxeberria to Spain.

VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: The Venezuelan Government has not deprived Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma of his functions and attributes.

The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela has returned to his post - more than nine months after he was expelled by President Hugo Chavez.

Honduran troops arrested President Manuel Zelaya in an apparent military coup Sunday to stop him pressing ahead with a constitutional referendum, in a move triggering global concern.

The news that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran military has elicited official condemnations from the governments of France, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, and Argentina; as well as protests from the Organization of American States and the United Nations.

BACKING: Hugo Chavez blamed the US, but ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said an earlier coup plan had been thwarted after the US declined to back it AFP , CARACAS Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009, Page 7 Latin American countries, many of which are no strangers to major political upheavals, unanimously condemned on Sunday the Honduran army s ouster and ...

The Honduran Congress has named its leader to replace President Manuel Zelaya following his military ouster and forced exile in Costa Rica.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's ambassador returned to Washington on Friday as the nations moved to repair strained diplomatic ties, but the sides are not completely ready to bury the hatchet.

Dozens protested in Venezuela's capital on Thursday wearing red gags over their mouths to condemn government moves against an opposition-aligned television channel.

The United States says its ambassador to Venezuela should be back in Caracas within days.

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez says he's asking for Russia's cooperation and hopes to sell oil at $100 a barrel.

The United States and Venezuela will soon reinstate ambassadors expelled in a diplomatic spat last year, a sign of warmer relations between President Hugo Chavez and what he calls the U.S. "empire." Leftist Chavez has toned down his strident criticism of U.S. foreign policy since Barack Obama took office in January, partly because the U.S.

A convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" will be deported to Italy after his capture in Caracas in a joint operation by Venezuelan and Italian police, authorities said Tuesday.

Caracas, Jun 22 Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, Ukraine and Belarus were honored with a standing ovation at a Ballet gala at the Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas.

A top Sicilian mafia boss on Italy's list of 30 most dangerous men has been arrested in Venezuela, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

Authorities arrested one of Italy's most dangerous Mafia fugitives as he left his apartment in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Italian police said Sunday.