
New app helping Venezuelans find scarce items
Harried Venezuelans who devote hours scouring supermarkets for increasingly scarce food basics and toilet paper have just received some digital help ...

Globally, people resigned to little privacy online
U.S. government snooping does not surprise global Internet users, who say they already have few expectations of online privacy as governments ...

Venezuela frees US filmmaker jailed as alleged spy
A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to the United States in a gesture that could ...

Even in church, Venezuelans face shortages
When it comes to Venezuela's growing scarcities, not even the Roman Catholic Church has received a dispensation. Church officials say food ...
Gunfire at Caracas strip club hurts 2 US officials
Two officials from the U.S. Embassy suffered gunshot wounds early Tuesday during an altercation at a strip club in Venezuela's crime-ridden capital, ...
Venezuela to create new workers militia
Venezuela's president has ordered the creation of a new workers' militia to defend the country's "Bolivarian revolution" at a time when the government ...

Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums
Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

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 ...

Venezuelan govt targets disaffected ex-supporters
The razor-close vote to replace late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has sparked what opposition leaders and human rights groups say is a government ...

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 ...

Lead narrows for Chavez heir amid crime, shortages
Nicolas Maduro hopes to ride a tide of grief into Venezuela's special presidential election Sunday and win voters' endorsement to succeed the late ...

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.

Outside Caracas, Chavismo's unfulfilled promises
It's just after nightfall and the power is out again in untold hundreds of thousands — probably millions — of Venezuelan homes. If the government ...

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 ...

In Venezuela election, food is a voting issue
Venezuelans complain that what goes into their Sunday dinner plate comes from abroad: Steak, from Brazil; plantains, the Dominican Republic; rice, ...

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 ...