Venezuela has moved the women’s baseball world championship tournament to militarised stadiums outside Caracas after a Hong Kong player was shot during a game, prompting an outcry over the city’s violent crime epidemic. Hong Kong withdrew...

The Venezuelan Foreign Relations Ministry congratulated Colombian President-Elect Juan Manuel Santos for his victory in Sunday’s elections, but said Venezuela will remain alert to both the words and actions of the Colombian government to see if...

Government foes accuse President Hugo Chavez of being behind the barring of several prominent candidates from Venezuela’s congressional elections, saying he is trying to undermine the opposition’s chances. The country’s top...

Seeking once again to rein in a currency that has been devalued three times since he took power in 1999, President Hugo Chavez has ordered the central bank to take sole charge of the free-floating “parallel” market. He accuses capitalist...

President Hugo Chavez urged supporters to use Twitter to blow the whistle on currency speculators on Sunday and announced that police raids on illegal traders would continue as Venezuela’s government tries to defend the embattled bolivar. The...

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega agreed on Thursday to expand bilateral projects funded by oil-rich Caracas. After a six-hour meeting that lasted into the wee hours of the morning, Chavez and his host announced plans to...

A request to launch two opposition-aligned cable channels in Venezuela was denied by telecommunications regulator Conatel due to failure to meet a deadline and inexact documentation. Conatel published on Friday a communique in which it said that Radio...

The editor of the Caracas daily 2001, Israel Marquez, was shot to death on Tuesday morning by criminals attempting to carjack his vehicle, Venezuelan police said. Inspector Ramon Silva told reporters that the crime occurred when Marquez and his wife...

Four police officers and three soldiers were killed in a rebel ambush bombing near the Venezuelan border, a military spokesman said today. The police and soldiers were heading to seize an illegal shipment of gasoline from Venezuela yesterday when the...

President Hugo Chavez denied on Friday that students mounting anti-government protests this week in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities have been subject to torture or “brutal repression.”