Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez exhorted supporters to treat next Sunday’s parliamentary vote as a “battle” for the two-thirds majority needed so his government can push on unimpeded with socialist reforms. Venezuela’s...

The president of Venezuela’s Civic-Military Front on Monday welcomed the decision by President Hugo Chavez to increase military pay by 40 percent. “Justice is being done with the military personnel,” who to date were one of the sectors with...

Venezuela was to award the largest oil investment of President Hugo Chavez’s 11-year rule on Wednesday, drawing tens of billions of dollars of much-needed foreign finance to the Orinoco Belt just three years after the leftist leader nationalized...

A new slogan appearing on the T-shirts and banners of anti-government protesters in Venezuela sums up a growing sentiment about President Hugo Chavez after 11 years in power: “You struck out.”

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered the expropriation of a French-owned hypermarket chain that operates close to a dozen stores in Venezuela, accusing it of price speculation following the country’s currency devaluation.

A landowner who had his land expropriated by the Chavez government and who recently called off a prolonged hunger strike in a long-running dispute with the National Land Institute (INTI) after they agreed to abide by the agreement but was then resumed...

One person dies in Argentina every 28 hours as a result of repression by state security forces, according to a report by the Committee against Police and Institutional Repression, or Correpi, which was published Saturday in the local press. The report,...

Peace in Colombia is impossible at the moment because of the current country’s government policy, opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba said Sunday. According to the Liberal Party politician, a “peace process is ipossible in the country now,...