Venezuela

Snowden needs "world's protection", says Venezuelan leader

MOSCOW - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday that Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy agency contractor, deserved the "world's protection" for divulging details of Washington's spy program.

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Petrocaribe leaders agree to focus efforts on boosting trade

MANAGUA - Delegations from over a dozen countries that are members of the Venezuelan-led oil alliance Petrocaribe agreed on Saturday to adopt a framework for promoting trade within the block.

World, 30 Jun 2013

Costa Rica probes soapy money-laundering link to Venezuela

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Costa Rica said on Thursday it was investigating two men suspected of laundering money for Venezuelan government firms after detecting a shady scheme to buy millions of bars of soap.

World, Oddly Enough, 27 Jun 2013

Costa Rica probes soapy money-laundering link to Venezuela

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Costa Rica said on Thursday it was investigating two men suspected of laundering money for Venezuelan government firms after detecting a shady scheme to buy millions of bars of soap.

World, 27 Jun 2013

Venezuelan government says recording proves opposition plots

CARACAS - Venezuela's government released a recording on Wednesday of a well-known opposition lawmaker apparently criticizing the head of the opposition coalition and accusing him of meeting U.S. officials to provoke a crisis in the OPEC nation.

World, 26 Jun 2013

U.S. lawmakers slam Russia for abetting Snowden flight

WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers on Sunday said former national security contractor Edward Snowden's reported flight to Russia with a plan to flee onward to Cuba or Venezuela undermined his whistle blower claims and they slammed Moscow for helping a fugitive.

U.S., World, Russia, 23 Jun 2013

Snowden heads to Venezuela via Moscow, Havana: airline source

MOSCOW - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden will fly from Moscow to Cuba on Monday and then plans to go to Venezuela, a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said on Sunday.

World, U.S., Aerospace & Defense, Russia, 23 Jun 2013

Venezuela says suspects held Portuguese man in bunker for 11 months

CARACAS - Venezuelan prosecutors have charged a woman and four men in connection with the kidnapping of a Portuguese man who was held captive in an underground bunker for nearly a year before being rescued this week.

World, 21 Jun 2013

Venezuelan anti-corruption drive snares senior tax official

CARACAS - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced the arrest of a senior tax official on Thursday in the latest move in what he says is a concerted effort to stamp out corruption in the South American OPEC nation.

World, 20 Jun 2013

Analysis: Rough honeymoon for Chavez's successor in Venezuela

CARACAS - Wearing sports gear in the national colors and sitting on a sofa in a modest family home, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a microphone, chats with locals and expounds on the benefits of socialism.

World, 20 Jun 2013

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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez arrives at the international airport in Cancun February 21, 2010. REUTERS/Gerardo Garcia

Life of Hugo Chavez

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez became famous for his many moods. Here, Reuters photographers Jorge Silva and Carlos Garcia Rawlins, and video journalist Sebastian Rocandio, offer exclusive images and recollections of Chavez over the years. Produced by Jillian Kitchener.

Video: The image of Hugo Chavez

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is pictured during his army years, in this undated handout photo provided by Venezuela's Ministry of Information and Communication. REUTERS/Ministry of Information and Communication/Handout

Venezuela's president in his youth

Supporters cheer for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the People's balcony at Miraflores Palace in Caracas April 13, 2012. Chavez commemorated ten years of his return to power after a brief coup who ousted him for two days in 2002. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR30PC8

Chavez's Venezuela

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Alcide Arregocete, who has a prosthesis on her leg, up the stairs with the help of a crutch in Las Mayas slum in Caracas May 28, 2011. Despite being in power for 12 years and bringing plenty of new schools and clinics to poor areas, Chavez has failed to fix Venezuela's housing shortfall -- currently at 2 million units. That, say critics, demonstrates the failure of socialism in Venezuela, where the 500,000 new homes built during Chavez's rule, about two-thirds by the private sector, is no better than the rate of construction under his predecessors. Not surprisingly, Chavez has sought to take the initiative with a new "Grand Housing Mission" -- his eighth such construction plan -- aiming to build 2 million new units by 2017 with funds available from higher global oil prices. To match Feature VENEZUELA-HOUSING/ Picture taken May 28, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY) - RTR2N78X

Chavez’s economic program did everything but work

By Martin Hutchinson 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's rule coincided with a giant surge in oil prices, helping avoid bankruptcy for his country. Yet Chavez’s stewardship alienated foreign investors as well as governments, and kept Venezuelans poor.  Commentary