Election Year in Venezuela
This year in Venezuela is a general election year and like in any country when general elections occur, it becomes a drawn out year of circus-like journalism.
This year in Venezuela is a general election year and like in any country when general elections occur, it becomes a drawn out year of circus-like journalism.
AP | Posted 05.04.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez revealed Sunday that a new tumor recently removed from his pelvic region was of the same ...
AP | Posted 05.01.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live communication with his country's news media in nearly a week Thursday,...
AP | PETER ORSI | Posted 05.29.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Doctors successfully extracted a tumor from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's pelvic region and he was stable and recover...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 04.27.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Throughout his presidency, Hugo Chavez has relied on his vigor and endurance: playing baseball, speaking for hours at a st...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 04.18.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Prominent Jewish groups urged President Hugo Chavez on Friday to prevent what they called anti-Semitic attacks on the oppos...
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012
By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Two prominent U.S.-based Jewish organizations condemned on Friday as anti-Semitism a w...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 04.16.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez accused the opposition's presidential candidate Wednesday of concealing his ideological leani...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 04.15.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered opposition electoral officials not to destroy lists of voters following primar...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 04.08.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Outmatched time and again at the polls by President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan's opposition leaders are trying a new strategy...
Posted 02.03.2012
Both charismatic and polarizingly opinionated, Hugo Chávez arguably has been the most outspoken and identifiable leader in Latin America during his 1...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 03.28.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez has been filling top posts in Venezuela's armed forces with hardline political loyalists, raising con...
AP | FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 03.25.2012
CARACAS, Venezuela — Opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez bowed out of Venezuela's presidential race on Tuesday, saying he will support his lead...
Posted 11.14.2011
A video posted on YouTube this past weekend depicts a frightening attack against Venezuelan opposition candidate, Maria Corina Machado, who is running...
AP | By IAN JAMES | Posted 12.20.2011
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Opponents of President Hugo Chavez have been hit with a double-blow this week: a court ruling that threatens to sink the preside...
AP | JORGE RUEDA | Posted 11.24.2011
CARACAS, Venezuela — A Venezuelan opposition leader launched his presidential campaign Saturday, challenging President Hugo Chavez to accept him...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 11.10.2011
LA RAIZA, Venezuela — The rival who could pose the greatest threat to President Hugo Chavez may be the only politician in Venezuela who almost n...
GlobalPost | John Otis | Posted 09.18.2011
CARACAS, Venezuela — With President Hugo Chavez on the mend from cancer surgery, Venezuelans are debating whether he will be strong enough to campai...
chicagotribune.com | Mery Mogollon and Chris Kraul | Posted 05.25.2011
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's ruling Socialist Party won a majority in parliamentary elections, but the opposition surpassed the crucial one-thir...
AP | By FABIOLA SANCHEZ | Posted 08.04.2011
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez's allies launched their campaigns Wednesday for crucial congressional elections that come just as recessio...
Stephanie Kennedy | Posted 04.26.2012