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Venezuela vote council says audit confirms Maduro victory

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CARACAS - Venezuela's election council said on Tuesday an audit of the results of presidential elections in April confirmed President Nicolas Maduro did win by 1.5 percentage points, despite opposition claims that the vote was stolen.

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Venezuela proposes ending detention of judge who says she was raped

CARACAS - Venezuela's attorney general proposed on Friday to end the house arrest of a female judge who was detained on corruption charges in 2009 and alleged that she was raped in prison.

World, 07 Jun 2013

Venezuela deports U.S. filmmaker accused of being spy

MIAMI/CARACAS - Venezuela on Wednesday deported an American filmmaker who was arrested in April on accusations of spying for Washington and plotting with opposition student groups to destabilize the South American OPEC nation.

U.S., World, 05 Jun 2013

U.S., Venezuela to find ways to forge positive relations: Kerry

ANTIGUA, Guatemala - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday he and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua had agreed to find new ways to forge positive relations between their two countries, long at political loggerheads.

World, Politics, 05 Jun 2013

Venezuela deports U.S. filmmaker accused of being spy

CARACAS - Venezuela deported a U.S. filmmaker who had been arrested in April on accusations he was working as a spy for Washington and advising opposition student groups on how to destabilize the South American OPEC nation.

U.S., 05 Jun 2013

Venezuelan state considers system to limit food purchases

CARACAS - A Venezuelan state is testing a system to limit purchases of food and other staples, local media reported on Tuesday, in a move that officials defended as necessary to stop contraband trade but opposition critics slammed as Cuban-style rationing.

World, 04 Jun 2013

Venezuela's Capriles says Maduro government will fall

SAN FRANCISCO DE YARE, Venezuela - Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says President Nicolas Maduro's government will "cave in" under the pressure of growing economic troubles, in-fighting and a belief by many Venezuelans that it stole the April election.

World, 02 Jun 2013

Cuba says Venezuela's spat with Colombia could hurt peace talks

HAVANA - Cuba expressed support on Saturday for its ally Venezuela in a row with Colombia, which Havana suggested could hurt peace talks it has been hosting to end Colombia's long war with leftist rebels.

World, Cuba, 02 Jun 2013

Colombia's Santos calls Venezuela plot accusations "crazy"

BOGOTA - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday dismissed as "crazy" accusations made by his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro that Santos is involved in a plot to overthrow him, and called for a diplomatic solution to the dispute.

World, 31 May 2013

Venezuela's Maduro slams Colombia's Santos for 'betrayal'

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, of "betrayal" on Thursday, saying he had lost faith in him for meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles.

World, 30 May 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