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Dramatists liken Venezuela saga to telenovela
A president who vanishes for weeks in a mysterious battle with cancer. Supporters who chant their allegiance in the streets. And in the midst of it ...
Inmates moved after bloody Venezuela prison clash
Venezuelan authorities finished evacuating more than 2,000 inmates on Sunday from a prison where the government said 58 people were killed in one of ...
Hospital: 61 killed in Venezuela prison riot
The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said ...
Chavez starting more medical treatment in Cuba
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defeated a respiratory infection and has begun additional medical treatment in Cuba after struggling with ...
For Chavez impersonator, cancer no laughing matter
It's an hour before showtime, and Gustavo Rios is transforming himself into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. A makeup artist paints his skin a dark ...
Absent but omnipresent, Chavez a powerful symbol
While Venezuela's sick president recuperates from surgery behind closed doors in Cuba, at home he is more visible than ever. Iconic images of his eyes ...
Spanish daily halts edition with fake Chavez photo
The leading Spanish newspaper El Pais withdrew and reprinted its Thursday edition after discovering that its front-page exclusive photograph ...
Venezuela VP: plot against Chavez allies revealed
Venezuela's vice president said Wednesday that the government has uncovered a plot to attack him or another senior leader of President Hugo Chavez's ...
Venezuelan government: Hugo Chavez recovering
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in good spirits and recovering six weeks after he underwent cancer surgery in Cuba, his government said Tuesday ...
Venezuela military to play central power broker
In a country riven by political strife, Venezuela's military often has served as the arbiter of power. It has launched coups and frustrated them and ...
Chavez reportedly at exclusive Cuba hospital
It's a blocky, blush-colored building surrounded by a lush canopy of trees near the rumored home of Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.
Venezuela publishes decree with Chavez signature
Venezuela's government has published a decree signed by President Hugo Chavez, while his vice president said Wednesday that the ailing leader also ...
Venezuela VP stands in for Chavez before lawmakers
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro took the place of ailing President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday by delivering a short speech and turning in a ...
Venezuela struggles with sporadic food shortages
Mireya Bustamante spent most of the day trying in vain to find flour to bake a birthday cake for her 4-year-old son. Like most Venezuelans, the ...
Venezuela: Chavez is responding to treatment
Thousands of supporters of Venezuela's cancer-stricken president held rallies across the nation Sunday, hours before the government announced that ...
Rights groups condemn crackdown on Venezuela TV
Rights groups are condemning an order by Venezuela's broadcast agency for a television channel to stop showing clips that question the legality of ...
Venezuela's VP in Havana to see Chavez, family
Venezuela's vice president flew to Cuba on Friday to visit the ailing Hugo Chavez and his family, while the leaders of Argentina and Peru also ...
In Venezuela, humor not stymied by Chavez's crisis
The monthlong absence of ailing President Hugo Chavez has elicited prayers, an emotional street rally and heated political debate. Amid the tense wait ...
Venezuela holds symbolic inauguration for Chavez
Nothing shows the extent of Hugo Chavez's grip on power quite as clearly as his absence from his own inauguration Thursday. Venezuela gathered foreign ...
Venezuela court: Chavez swearing-in can be delayed
Venezuela's Supreme Court chief on Wednesday endorsed putting off President Hugo Chavez's inauguration, siding with the government in a heated dispute ...
US seeking renewed Venezuela ties after Chavez
With President Hugo Chavez possibly in his last days, the United States sees the possibility of a long-sought reset in relations with Venezuela.
Venezuela lawmakers postpone Chavez swearing-in
Venezuela's opposition announced on Wednesday that it plans to ask the Supreme Court to rule on whether delaying the swearing-in of cancer-stricken ...
Hugo Chavez's allies re-elect legislative chief
Allies of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez on Saturday chose to keep the same National Assembly president — a man who could be in line to step ...
Venezuela VP: Chavez could be sworn in by court
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez could be sworn in by the Supreme Court later on if he's not able to take the oath of office before lawmakers next ...
Disputes brewing over Hugo Chavez's inauguration
President Hugo Chavez is due to be sworn in for a new term in less than a week and his closest allies still aren't saying what they plan to do if the ...