A university student has been strangled to death by a captive 3-meter python at a park in Venezuela where the young man was working as an intern.
An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America
Britain's rundown housing estates and deprived inner cities will be the setting for a new project that aims to use classical music to lift children out of the poverty trap.
U.S. imports of Venezuelan oil and oil products fell by 11.7 percent to a five-year low in the first four months of the year, the U.S. government said Monday
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened not to sell oil to European Union countries that follow new rules on immigration, but oil analysts said the threat was largely symbolic since no European country buys oil from Venezuela.
The U.S. government designated two Venezuelans, including a diplomat, as supporters of international terrorism Wednesday for what it called their support of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States of using anti-drug flights for spying -- and said that fighter jets are ready to defend Venezuela's sovereignty
Power returned slowly to Venezuela on Tuesday night, a few hours after widespread outages blacked out nearly half the country, trapping people in elevators, stalling subways, filling streets with pedestrians and forcing hospitals to switch to emergency generators.
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he will try to facilitate the release of three Americans held captive by Colombia's largest rebel group -- even though he has lost contact with the guerrillas
Venezuela moved Tuesday to take a greater cut of windfall oil profits, approving a 50 percent tax on foreign oil companies when crude tops $70 a barrel
A university student has been strangled to death by a captive 3-meter python at a park in Venezuela where the young man was working as an intern.
An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America
Britain's rundown housing estates and deprived inner cities will be the setting for a new project that aims to use classical music to lift children out of the poverty trap.
U.S. imports of Venezuelan oil and oil products fell by 11.7 percent to a five-year low in the first four months of the year, the U.S. government said Monday
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened not to sell oil to European Union countries that follow new rules on immigration, but oil analysts said the threat was largely symbolic since no European country buys oil from Venezuela.
The U.S. government designated two Venezuelans, including a diplomat, as supporters of international terrorism Wednesday for what it called their support of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States of using anti-drug flights for spying -- and said that fighter jets are ready to defend Venezuela's sovereignty
Power returned slowly to Venezuela on Tuesday night, a few hours after widespread outages blacked out nearly half the country, trapping people in elevators, stalling subways, filling streets with pedestrians and forcing hospitals to switch to emergency generators.
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he will try to facilitate the release of three Americans held captive by Colombia's largest rebel group -- even though he has lost contact with the guerrillas
Venezuela moved Tuesday to take a greater cut of windfall oil profits, approving a 50 percent tax on foreign oil companies when crude tops $70 a barrel
President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela's embassy in Colombia closed and told the military to send 10 battalions to the border on Sunday
Rescue teams on Friday found the wreckage of a plane that crashed Thursday night in the mountains of Venezuela, but none of the 46 people aboard survived, a searcher said.
As steady rain comes down in buckets on the revelers, there's a question in Rio de Janeiro that is as hot as Carnaval: Does playing with three strikers make your team better at attacking?
Police on Wednesday tried to determine what charges to file against the men who held up to 52 hostages in a botched bank robbery in central Venezuela before being detained.
Two hostages freed by Colombian rebels have landed in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where dozens of their friends and family carrying flowers clapped and embraced them.
A tense waiting game is under way in Colombia, where the rescue of three hostages -- to be freed by Colombian leftist rebels -- failed to take place Saturday.
Two Venezuelan helicopters arrived in central Colombia on Friday as part of an operation to free three hostages from the jungles of Colombia.
Four alleged Venezuelan agents have been arrested in the U.S. and charged with trying to persuade a U.S. citizen to keep quiet about a growing international election scandal.
On election night, Venezuela's President went from anger to resignation as he realized voters were turning against him. But the defeat could help focus his socialist agenda
While the opposition got out its vote, the tipping point for the Venezuelan leader's loss may have come from his supporters
Venezuelans, by the slimmest of margins, rejected a constitutional referendum that would have allowed President Hugo Chavez to seek re-election indefinitely and tightened socialism's grip on the oil-rich Latin American nation.
Venezuela's voters reject changes to its constitution, meaning a loss for a leader accustomed to landslide victories
Venezuelans turned out Sunday to vote on whether to approve broad constitutional changes that would bolster President Hugo Chavez's embrace of socialism and grant an indefinite extension of his eligibility to serve as president.
The Venezuelan leader's socialist reforms face an electoral test this weekend -- as well as mass demonstrations
Analysis: It was the "shut up" heard round the world. But what may have upset Venezuela's fiery leader was not the King of Spain, but a fellow leftist Prime Minister
Venezuela's Maria Lionza religious cult offers an indigenous challenge to traditional Catholicism
The price of sin rose Monday in Venezuela where President Hugo Chavez is on a campaign to make Venezuelans cut back on drinking and smoking.
Viewpoint: A constitutional referendum and plans to dissolve Congress are the latest reminder that Latin America's legislatures have often discredited the region's democracies
Two important new books help understand why Venezuela's leftist President is considered both a national hero and a flawed demagogue
Soaring oil revenues have created a lot of capitalist-minded consumers -- and made airline seats a precious commodity
A key rebel commander and fugitive from a U.S. drug trafficking indictment was killed over the weekend in an air attack on a guerrilla encampment, the Colombian military said Monday.
From a proposal for crime-detecting blimps to Chavez's proclamation to set the clocks back a half hour, can Venezuela get any weirder?
A bag stuffed with $800,000 chills his friendship with Buenos Aires -- and gets in the way of a First Lady's ambitions.
Venezuela's leftist leader wants to eliminate term limits. Is this his bid for dictatorship -- or a vote for democracy?
World oil prices are headed for $100 per barrel, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez predicted on Saturday, and said he will cut supplies to the United States if the U.S. government "attacks" the South American nation again.
PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE STREETS in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, over a decision by President Hugo Chávez not to renew the broadcasting license of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), the country's oldest and most popular station. Until the government's action on May 27 to turn the station over to state-backed programming, RCTV featured news and entertainment, including telenovelas. For demonstrators, like the one above, the issue is one of freedom of the press, not protecting favorite shows. Several Latin American governments, as well as Brazil's Senate, condemned the station's removal. But Chávez said the privately owned station violated laws by airing calls for his ouster five years ago, declaring RCTV "coupist." He also called its primetime content immoral. Two other stations that also provided coup coverage had since toned down their criticism, but RCTV had not. A third, Globovisión, is the only remaining station to air criticism of government policies. While renewing the licenses
Protesters take to the streets after the Venezuelan leader denies a broacast license to an opposition TV network
At least three students are injured after Chavez takes a television station off the air
Not so long ago, Argentine clubs owned the Copa Libertadores. Since the competition's inception in 1960, seven different Argentine teams have hoisted the trophy 20 times, far more than clubs from any other nation -- including Brazil.
El Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez cumplió su promesa de radicalizar su revolución Bolivariana a partir de su reelección.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is living up to his promise to radicalize his Bolivarian Revolution after his re-election.
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Holiday gifts can be tricky for both gift givers and gift receivers. Good gifts are often the result of careful planning and consideration, but it takes only a slight oversight or miscalculation for the best of intentions to end up as an awkward, unwanted gift.
Anti-American socialist Hugo Chavez said his claimed victory in the Venezuelan presidential election was "another defeat for the devil" after the bulk of returns showed him leading challenger Manuel Rosales by a wide margin.
Caracas is not so much the city that never sleeps, as the city that bangs on your window shouting at 3 a.m. But, with a presidential election just days away, a tone of political hysteria can be detected amid the constant cacophony of traffic noise and Caribbean pop.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has unveiled a softer image in the run-up to his bid to win a third term of office on December 3. Here's all you need to know about the Latin American firebrand.
Chaos theory has it that a butterfly flapping its wings in Indonesia can cause a hurricane off the coast of Florida. Now there's a new version of that adage: Instability in the Middle East can make...
Investors were optimistic ahead of the latest look at Federal Reserve thinking and on lower oil prices the day before an OPEC meeting and a U.S. fuel inventory report.
Victor Zapata scored eight minutes from tiime to take Argentinian giants River Plate into the last 16 of the Libertadores Cup with a 1-0 win Paraguay's Libertad 1-0 on Thursday night.
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela has delayed a suspension of some U.S. passenger and cargo flights until March 30 while the government holds talks with U.S. carriers over the restrictions, authorities said Saturday.
Europeans and Americans browsed through rows of booths lauding President Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution while Venezuela welcomed tens of thousands of activists to a massive event Tuesday protesting globalization and the war in Iraq.
Bound for places like Boston, Baltimore, and Port Everglades, the five supertankers sit low in the shimmering blue-green Caribbean water, their hulls brimming with oil, gasoline, and jet fuel. Filling at a rate of 36,000 barrels an hour, these ships can be loaded and on their way from Venezuela in half a day, which is a good thing, since five more tankers are waiting in the distance for their fill-up. Americans are paying $15 million for each cargo, but the plant's manager just shrugs. "It's business," he says, already focusing on tomorrow's manifest: 500,000 barrels of high-sulfur fuel oil, destination China. The problem for the U.S. is that we may have to ante up more--a lot more--for that petroleum in the future if Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has his way. Venezuela is now the key to satisfying America's oil habit: By some measures this volatile Latin American nation, just a four-day sail from the U.S. Gulf Coast, has leap-frogged Canada and Saudi Arabia to become America's leading foreign source o
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's hard to make New Yorkers feel good about the absurd amounts of money required to live comfortably in Gotham. But a survey out this week might at least make them feel a little better.
CNN.com asked users to share their thoughts about the political, spiritual, economic and other global issues the next pope will face. Here is a sampling from thousands of responses, some of which have been edited:
CNN.com asked its readers to share their views on the death of Pope John Paul II, who died Saturday. Here is a sampling from thousands of responses, some of which have been edited.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was hospitalized Thursday, forcing him to cancel a trip to Venezuela to heal a rift with President Hugo Chavez.
Colombia and Venezuela have resolved a bitter monthlong dispute stemming from the capture of a Marxist guerrilla in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has invited opposition leaders to meet with him and called for reconciliation after surviving a weekend recall vote, but said his opponents must learn to "lose with dignity."
River Plate and Cruzeiro guaranteed second round places in the Copa Libertadores after winning their groups, while Sao Caetano and Ecuador's Barcelona kept their survival hopes alive.
Universidad de Concepcion's Copa Libertadores campaign came to an end with an away defeat at Venezualan side Caracas FC in what was a bad week for Chilean football.
Opposition leaders Thursday called for a new demonstration this weekend against President Hugo Chavez's government to encourage a national electoral commission to approve a recall vote.
National Guard troops clashed Friday with tens of thousands of antigovernment demonstrators trying to reach the site of a summit of developing nations in downtown Caracas.
As Latin America's Copa Libertadores club tournament reaches its fourth week, Bolivia's Bolivar have caused the biggest upset to date, beating champions Boca Juniors.
Crisis club Leeds plan to challenge a FIFA ban on Mark Viduka playing against Manchester United on Saturday following an Australian protest.
Crisis club Leeds could lose Mark Viduka for Saturday's Premier League match with Manchester United after the striker opted out of Australia's friendly in Venezuela.
Tens of thousands of opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took to the streets of the capital Saturday to protest delays in the verification of their petitions for a recall election.
The line outside the Shell station on Avenida Lecuna in central Caracas stretches for nearly a mile. Every few minutes the procession of cars and trucks, their hoods shimmering in the tropical heat...
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