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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday that his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would pay an official visit to the country before the end of 2009 to boost bilateral ties.

Whether it's called an "arms race" or a "coincidental modernization" of existing stocks, a wave of weapons purchases by Latin American nations is causing neighbors to watch each other with growing mistrust and fear.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Sunday he expects to welcome a visit this year by his Iranian counterpart and key ally President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that have killed at least 91 people, the government said yesterday.

President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela's military on Sunday to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying the country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors.

Venezuela has set next yeara sA parliamentary elections for Sept. 26 in a vote where PresidentA Hugo Chavez is expected to hold off opposition partiesa push toA break his grip on the South American nationa s legislature.

Spying charges, troop movements and mysterious killings along the border between Venezuela and Colombia are stoking a long-running diplomatic dispute that some are calling the "Cold War" of the Andes.

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.

Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday.

President Fernando Lugo sacked the commander of Paraguay's armed forces, two days after firing a trio of top military commanders amid rumours of a potential coup, government sources said on Friday.

Rational discussion defeated "ideological diatribes," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said at Sunday's close of the Summit of Americas, which was hailed a success despite a boycott of the final communique by a socialist bloc of countries.

November 05, 2009 It's tragic for any child to be on a bad track, to take drugs, to sell drugs, to lose their precious evanescent youth to the drug culture.

RE: "Fight terrorism in South Florida," by Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez-Herrera, Nov.

Aziz Ansari and Amy Poehler in "Parks and Recreation." Unlike the big-city cops, doctors and lawyers who crowd their TV screens, most Americans are surrounded by provincial folks who tend to speak about their small-beans pursuits in the most grandiose terms imaginable.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 8:31 pm US/Eastern CARACAS, Venezuela Swine flu has appeared among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon, and a doctor said Wednesday that the virus is suspected in seven deaths, including six infants.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama over a U.S. agreement with Colombia that allows American troops access to Colombian military bases.

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.

Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country. If anyone doubted those nine words summed up the Obama Doctrine, look at what the president's team perpetrated last week in Honduras.

A A A' In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers on Friday signed a pact to expand Washington's military's presence, a deal that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region's security.

A man has been charged with allegedly threatening to kill Miley Cyrus on the set of her latest movie "The Last Song," on the same day another obsessed fan had felony charges of attempted stalking dropped.