13 days ago
The discussion between Kerry and Elias Jose Jaua will be the first at cabinet level between the two countries in at least several years and the first substantial contact since Venezuela's disputed...
28 days ago
"The announcement on his program "La Hojilla" (The Razor Blade) late Monday came hours after opposition lawmaker Ismael Garcia released a recording in which Silva purportedly is heard discussing...
40 days ago
A portrait of Hugo Chavez stared down from a black metal frame as Jose Pastano sipped coffee after dinner with his sons in the slum house he shares with 17 relatives on the western edge of the...
41 days ago
"I feel very strongly the presence and fresh fingerprints of the 'comandante,'" said Maduro, who was hand-picked by the dying Hugo Chavez to take over his socialist government in Caracas.
45 days ago
The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999.
94 days ago
Venezuela's information minister says the government has decided that the body of Hugo Chavez will not be embalmed for permanent display, as officials had said it would be.
95 days ago
Venezuelans are lining up to bid their last farewell to Hugo Chavez along a route that's a reminder of the problems left behind after the late president's death.
95 days ago
But this is Hugo Chavez's own constitution, after all, the same one he promulgated shortly after becoming president in 1999 to ease his path to greater power.
95 days ago
"Maduro does not have the charisma, and the connection that Hugo Chavez had historically with the population.
97 days ago
Venezuela's acting president says it is highly unlikely that Hugo Chavez will be embalmed for permanent viewing because the body was not properly prepared on time.
97 days ago
Venezuelans in Miami are mounting a campaign to travel to New Orleans to vote in their country's presidential election to replace the late Hugo Chavez.
98 days ago
Sure, he's heartbroken over the death of his hero Hugo Chavez, but there's precious little time for sentiment: Hats and T-shirts of the late Venezuelan president are flying off the shelves at his...
98 days ago
Senior Iranian clerics have criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez's mother with a hug - a physical contact considered a sin under the country's strict Islamic codes.
99 days ago
He and his three-man crew had already sprayed some 20 murals over the past week all over the "23 de enero" slum where support for the late President Hugo Chavez, their "Comandante," remains rock...
99 days ago
IndyCar driver E.J. Viso isn't worried the death of Hugo Chavez will affect state sponsorship of Venezuelan drivers, including himself.
99 days ago
Retired leader Fidel Castro broke nearly a week of silence since the death of friend and ally Hugo Chavez, saying Monday that Cuba has lost its "best friend" with the late Venezuelan president's...
99 days ago
The Obama administration has expelled two Venezuelan diplomats, further setting back U.S. efforts to repair relations with the Latin American country after Hugo Chavez's death.
100 days ago
The date of elections to replace Hugo Chavez is set, and his hand-picked successor will be the official party candidate.
100 days ago
Venezuelans will vote April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced Saturday as increasingly strident political rhetoric begins to roil this polarized country.
101 days ago
Hugo Chavez was lauded as a modern-day reincarnation of Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar at a fiery, foot-stomping state funeral Friday, hours before his handpicked successor was sworn in as...
101 days ago
Only the Venezuelan officials who have promised to preserve Hugo Chavez and display his body "for eternity" inside a glass tomb know exactly how they're going to do it.
101 days ago
World leaders whose bodies have been preserved and put on perpetual display, as Venezuela's government plans to do with Hugo Chavez:
101 days ago
Venezuela on Saturday was awaiting a key ruling from the nation's elections commission about details of a vote to replace Hugo Chavez, including a possible date for the poll.
101 days ago
"This sash belongs to Hugo Chavez," he said, choked up, after assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello slid the presidential band over his head.
102 days ago
Venezuela's opposition leader is calling Vice President Nicolas Maduro a bald-faced liar and accuses him of using Hugo Chavez's funeral to campaign for the presidency.
