
Falkland Islanders vote with an eye on Argentina
Britain is hoping this weekend's referendum on the political status of the Falkland Islands will push the United States and other neutral governments ...
Venezuela sets April 14 for presidential election
Venezuela's electoral council has set a presidential election for April 14 to choose the successor to President Hugo Chavez. Acting President Nicolas ...

Other world leaders whose bodies are on display
World leaders whose bodies have been preserved and put on perpetual display, as Venezuela's government plans to do with Hugo Chavez: ___ VLADIMIR ...

Maduro leans on Chavez's charisma for popularity
Nicolas Maduro so far has led by imitation, seeking to fill the shoes of a president whose uncanny vigor, mischievous humor and political wiles sowed ...

Fiery funeral for Venezuela's Chavez
Hugo Chavez was lauded as a modern-day reincarnation of Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar at a fiery, foot-stomping state funeral Friday, hours ...

Nicolas Maduro sworn in as Venezuelan president
Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday as Venezuela's acting president, using the occasion to launch blistering attacks on the U.S. as well as the ...

Wealthy Venezuelans shedding no tears for Chavez
In the tree-lined eastern hills of Caracas, you would never know an elaborate state funeral was in progress across town for the most popular president ...
Colombian rebel group releases German hostages
Colombian and international officials say a Colombian rebel group has released two German citizens who were kidnapped four months ago.

Argentina's Menem found guilty of arms trafficking
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and 11 others were found guilty by an appeals court on Friday of smuggling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia in ...

Cardinal Scherer: Modern ways, traditional message
Cardinal Odilo Scherer is known for prolific tweeting, appearances on Brazil's most popular late-night talk show and squeezing into the subway for ...

Hugo Chavez's body to be put on permanent display
Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and now Hugo Chavez. The late leader's supporters have put him on a pedestal long provided for the world's ...

Chavez body to be put on permanent display
Hugo Chavez's body will be preserved and forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace from which ...

Venezuela: Maduro to take oath as acting president
Vice President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in as acting president of Venezuela on Friday after a state funeral is held for Hugo Chavez, the speaker ...
Chavez body to be permanently displayed
Venezuela's acting president says Hugo Chavez's embalmed body will be permanently displayed in a glass casket so that "his people will always have him
Brazil: police puzzle over 7 gift-wrapped skulls
Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are baffled by a macabre puzzle: someone has been leaving gift-wrapped human skulls around town.

Chavez's try to be savior of poor floundered in US
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send thousands of soldiers, firefighters and volunteers to help ...
Oil price rises as US economy seen strengthening
Oil prices moved up slightly closer to $91 a barrel on Thursday as reports of a moderately improving U.S. economy, which suggests increased fuel ...

General: Heart attack killed a suffering Chavez
President Hugo Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live, the head of Venezuela's ...

Chavez widely mourned, but some hope change on way
Some cried, some cheered. Many Latin Americans mourned the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, leaders in Europe and Asia sent condolences, and ...
Little reaction in oil market to Chavez death
Oil markets are taking the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in their stride, with the price of crude little changed Wednesday. By early ...

Quotes about the death of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
A selection of quotes from world leaders and ordinary citizens about the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "We have lost a revolutionary, but ...

Venezuela's Chavez dies, officials call for unity
Some in anguish, some in fear, Venezuelans raced for home and stocked up on food and water Tuesday after the government announced the death of ...

Chavez death echoes with leftists worldwide
Reactions to the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez were as mixed, polemical and outsized as the leader was in life, with some saying his ...

Foreign minister: VP Maduro is interim president
Venezuela's foreign minister said Tuesday that Vice President Nicolas Maduro will be interim president in the wake of Hugo Chavez's death and run as ...