Venezuelan publishers and journalists on Wednesday criticized the court ruling temporarily prohibiting two Caracas dailies from publishing photos of deaths and violence.
A Caracas court on Tuesday ordered the implementation of the measure after the...
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President Hugo Chavez announced on Thursday that Venezuela was breaking diplomatic relations with Colombia over Bogota’s claims that his government is sheltering Colombian rebels, accusations denied by Caracas.
“For dignity’s sake, there is...
It’s President Hugo Chavez’s biggest economic battle cry, and it’s getting louder as Venezuela suffers a recession: “We’re going to bury Venezuelan capitalism.”
Yet creating a socialist economy is one of...
The International Federation of Journalists has condemned the jail sentence and fine handed out to Venezuelan columnist Francisco Perez.
“It is a brutal, unacceptable judgment with very few international precedents,” said the Brussels-based...
Picture the scene: the gilded (yet suitably austere) presidential palace of Hugo Chávez, ringing with exclamations of frustration as he tries to shoehorn his eight-hour orations into 140 characters. “Ay, maldito sea!” he swears. It may take...
Edwin Valero, the suspended WBC lightweight champion, has killed himself in jail just hours after being arrested on suspicion of his wife’s murder, according to police.
Venezuela’s federal police chief, Wilmer Flores, said Valero used his...
Venezuela has confirmed that eight Colombian citizens have been arrested on suspicion of spying, accused of trying to destabilise its power grid.
Venezuela is currently experiencing its worst electricity crisis for 50 years.
President Hugo Chavez says...
An independent and free press is a vital element of any democracy, and the stifling of this freedom is of concern to the people of other nations as well as those being stifled. Recent events in Venezuela show a disregard for free expression, targeting...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez foresees 2010 to be a difficult year for Venezuela, mostly because of U.S. military presence in neighboring Colombia.
In an opinion piece published in several Venezuelan newspapers on Sunday, the leftist president...
From Portugal where he arrived this Sunday, November 29, to take part in the Ibero-American Summit, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reiterated the position of his administration of not recognizing the results of the vote in Honduras,...
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