President Hugo Chavez’s government is relocating a gathering of top energy executives due to power outages. The World Heavy Oil Congress says Venezuelan authorities have moved its three-day conference to Margarita Island.

Hugo Chavez’s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services — and a government they see as incapable of doing much about it. The president’s...

A group of academics led by Luis Pedro España, a sociologist and researcher with the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), conducted a study about poverty in Venezuela which compares data from 1998-2008, and the result is not entirely positive. In...

With the advent of a new U.S. Administration and the appointment of a new director, one would have expected Reporters Without Borders to desist from their propaganda campaign against Venezuela and Cuba. But nothing of the sort. Salim Lamrani relates the...