The governments of Venezuela and Argentina signed on Tuesday 25 cooperation accords in a number of areas including food, construction and energy, during the latest of the quarterly meetings of the two countries’ heads of state, Hugo Chavez and...

Venezuela’s President Chavez has told his people they will see sharp rises in some dairy food staples this year. Pasteurized milk prices have already been raised 30% while some cheese prices have gone up 23%.

President Hugo Chavez has added three days to Venezuela’s Easter holiday to deal with a growing energy crisis. The move - which will close government and public offices - means most Venezuelans will have a seven-day break starting on 1 April.

Five people, two of them children, died on Friday in a fire at a home in the Venezuelan capital, firefighters said. The blaze broke out at around 6:30 a.m. in Caracas’ El Marques neighborhood, a fire department spokesperson told El Universal...

For the slum-dwellers of El Junquito, the fabulous views of Caracas have never been of much interest. It was the piped water and electricity supplied to their makeshift homes that earned their loyalty to Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, President...

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...