Campaigning to fill the 165 seats of Venezuela’s National Parliament came to an end Thursday with President Hugo Chávez and his foes both vowing to emerge victorious from Sunday’s vote. Pollsters say the election is too close to call, with...

Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez intends to inject new urgency into his socialist, anti-imperialist revolution because, he says, there is clear evidence that “capitalism is destroying the world”.

With Venezuela’s economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from electricity shortages, and the value of domestic currency having recently fallen sharply in the...

Russia plans to pay an extra $1 billion in a bonus to Venezuela for the development of more oil fields in the Latin American country, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. “Our partners have said they are ready to expand our partnership in...

Venezuela’s national assembly, dominated by allies of President Hugo Chavez, has voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of an opposition politician, Wilmer Azuaje, accused of verbally abusing and striking a police official, Yuraima Castillo. A...

President Hugo Chavez’s government said Monday it isn’t interested in buying electricity from neighboring Colombia despite Venezuela’s struggles with severe energy shortages. Colombian Energy Minister Hernan Martinez said earlier...

Venezuelan inspectors, aided by the military, shut down 70 stores Monday as a sanction for allegedly adjusting prices in the wake of a currency devaluation last week, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported, citing the inspection agency.

A Venezuelan judge arrested after releasing a banker imprisoned for nearly three years without a completed trial has been sent to a prison where her life is in danger, her lawyer said Friday. Judge María Afiuni, 46 years old and with eight years on...

Venezuela - Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge. President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech Friday that “there are lots of fat people” in Venezuela and advised his supporters to exercise and eat healthy to trim their...

Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the country’s state-oil company, aims to convert 969 gasoline- burning vehicles to run on natural gas by the end of the year helped by a new conversion center.