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A potentially devastating outbreak of swine flu among the Yanomami Indians in Venezuela's Amazon rain forest appears to be contained for now after a rapid medical response in the remote zone.

Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a possible war with his neighbour.

CARACAS, Venezuela - 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.

WASHINGTON The United States on Tuesday called on Colombia and Venezuela to talk out their differences, before the growing tension over a US-Colombian military base deal gets out of hand.

Venezuela plans to expropriate a large coffee producer and is negotiating to buy a majority stake in another, potentially allowing the government to control 80 percent of the domestic market.

Fidel Castro learned a lot from Chilean President Salvador Allende's failed power grab in 1973. And he used the lessons of that bitter defeat to coach Venezuela's Hugo Chávez to dictatorship under the guise of democracy more than 25 years later...

The Colombian government said it would appeal to international bodies over what it called a threat made over the weekend by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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.

The call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to the country's military on preparing for a war against Colombia may hinder the Brazilian Senate's vote on the Protocol of Venezuela Accession to Mercosur, warned some Brazilian senators on Monday.

Laht.com: A small opposition party has said that Venezuela's new Minister of Electricity has been guilty of stealing power amid a crisis that has caused prolonged blackouts across the Andean nation.

Public sector grows while the number of workers in private companies decline El Universal: The Venezuelan government payroll increased by 12.7% in the last 12 months after the State hired 259,781 people as public employees between September 2008 and September 2009.

Colombia has said it will seek UN help after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez instructed his military to ready "for war."

The mother of former major leaguer Victor Zambrano has been kidnapped. Zambrano's agent Peter Greenberg says Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano was abducted Sunday morning from her son's farm near Maracay in central Venezuela.

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

" Venezuelan Vice President and Defence Minister RamA3n Carrizales claimed on Sunday that he had evidence that a group of Colombians who were kidnapped and assassinated a week earlier in Venezuelan territory were part of a "paramilitary infiltration plan" that aimed to destabilise the socialist government of President Hugo Chavez.

" Venezuela plans to build 2,000 homes for poor families in the Dominican province of Montecristi, on the border with Haiti, Governor Alejandro Toribio said yesterday.

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

BOGOTA: 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.

'Former Chavez's allies are moving away from his model and getting closer to Lula's social democracy' Fernando Gerbasi, expert in foreign affairs Politics Director of the Strategic Study Center, Metropolitan University, Fernando Gerbasi was twice ambassador to Colombia and also chief of mission in Brasilia.

Politics A group of 37 Colombians, who were deported from Venezuela for allegedly being members of a paramilitary group that attempted to assassinate President Hugo Chavez, complained of mistreatment.