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Venezuela tensions high after congressional brawl
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans filled the streets of the capital Wednesday in rival marches by the opposition and the government less than a day ...
American charged, ex-general held in Venezuela
An American filmmaker was formally charged late Saturday by Venezuelan officials who accuse him of paying right-wing groups to foment postelection ...
Venezuela wrestles over truth of bombing claims
Hours after barely winning Venezuela's presidential election, the ruling party started to flood state media with accusations that opposition ...
Rough inauguration day for new Venezuelan leader
Inauguration day could have gone better for the man picked to lead Venezuela's socialist revolution for the next six years. Hours before President ...
Election council to audit vote in Venezuela
Government supporters began filling the streets of Venezuela's capital early Friday to celebrate the inauguration of their leader, even as opponents ...
Venezuela crackdown deemed worst in years
National Guard troops beat dozens of opposition supporters inside a barracks for refusing to accept the government-certified electoral victory of Hugo ...
Chavez heir charges US is behind unrest over vote
President-elect Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival traded accusations Tuesday over blame for post-election violence that the government said had ...
Maduro certified as election winner amid protests
Venezuela's government-friendly electoral council quickly certified the razor-thin presidential victory of Hugo Chavez' hand-picked successor Monday, ...
Students, troops clash in Venezuela over election
National Guard troops are firing tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse students protesting the official results in Venezuela's disputed ...
Chavez heir barely wins; opposition rejects count
Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, won a razor-thin victory in Sunday's special presidential election but the opposition candidate ...
The well-greased vote machine Chavez left
Socialist party activist Rodolfo Sanchez is all nervous energy as he mounts the impossibly steep streets of his impoverished hillside neighborhood.
Maduro takes narrowing lead into Sunday vote
Red-shirted backers of Hugo Chavez's chosen heir transformed downtown Caracas into a raucous festival on the final day of campaigning for the weekend ...
Capriles supporters rally in streets of Caracas
A general expectation that Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor will win next weekend's presidential election didn't dim the spirits of more than ...
Chavez's legacy gains religious glow in Venezuela
Holding a Bible in her arms at the start of Holy Week, seamstress Maria Munoz waited patiently to visit the tomb of the man she considers another ...
Venezuela's Maduro says opposition seeks violence
Venezuela' acting president, Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday accused his opponent of seeking to provoke violence by scheduling a dueling campaign rally ...
Venezuela halts communication with US diplomat
Venezuela's government has halted lines of communication established by a top U.S. diplomat to protest what it says has been U.S. interference in the ...
Surviving a surge in street violence in Venezuela
On their daily cable car rides to and from home in Venezuela's capital, Maria Gonzalez and Jose Rafael Suarez soar in a bubble of safety far above the ...
Presidential candidates spar in Venezuela
Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has launched a nationwide tour as part of his campaign to replace the late President Hugo Chavez.
Hugo Chavez coffin parades past Venezuela's ills
The road from the military academy where Hugo Chavez's body has been lying in state to the hilltop museum where he'll be displayed indefinitely is ...
Venezuela's political divisions spill into streets
Under a three-story-tall banner blaring "You are all Chavez," Jose Rafael Hernandez crouched low with a can of spray paint, outlining on a wall a ...
Hand-picked Chavez successor registers in election
Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace ...
Venezuela sets presidential election for April 14
Venezuelans will vote April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced Saturday as increasingly strident political ...
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 ...