Venezuela is dragging its feet in establishing a support system for battered women, Amnesty International said in a report issued Wednesday.
Business leaders tired of taking the blame for Venezuela's soaring inflation are chiding government officials for encouraging consumers to help fight rising food prices by haggling with retailers.
Political tensions between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments cannot be used as a defense by a Venezuelan man accused of acting as a foreign agent in the coverup of a suitcase of cash smuggled to Argentina, a federal judge in Miami has ruled.
Bolivia's oil minister said Venezuela will spend $883 million to boost Bolivian oil and natural gas output by 2013 -- nearly 50 percent more than it originally promised its Andean ally.
Beauty pageant-obsessed Venezuelans celebrated the nation's fifth world victory on Monday. But the mother of the new Miss Universe was not so sure.
Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 on Monday in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.
Venezuelans are celebrating their fifth victory in the Miss Universe pageant. Some Venezuelans shouted and cheered in Caracas Sunday night while watching on television as 22-year-old Dayana Mendoza was crowned in Vietnam.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Colombia's defense minister Sunday as an obstacle to peace with his U.S.-allied neighbor, demanding the military chief be put "in his place."
LOS ANGELES TIMES OPINION
All week, New America Foundation Senior Fellow Andres Martinez discusses Hugo Chávez, recent economic developments in Central America and the state of U.S. relations in the region with Angelo Rivero Santos, the deputy chief of mission of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday touted a pact that is delivering fuel to 17 nations, calling it a tool against poverty and dismissing accusations that he is giving away Venezuela's oil wealth.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
It seemed like just yesterday that President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was calling President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia a “pawn of the American empire” and comparing him to Don Vito Corleone, with Mr. Uribe lashing back by threatening to sue Mr. Chávez for the “financing of genocidists.”
VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA
Smiles, handshakes and unusual candor Friday officially ended eight months of tension between Colombia and Venezuela as the countries' leaders held talks at an oil refining complex outside Caracas.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe attempted rapprochement on Friday after months of sniping that threatened billions of dollars in trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez says he is looking to buy more military weaponry during a visit to Russia later this month.
THE WASHINGTON POST
At a May presidential summit in Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela sought out his Colombian counterpart and regional rival, Álvaro Uribe. The two had not spoken in months. But Chávez got right to the point, telling Uribe: "We haven't been giving money to the FARC," referring to the rebel group that has operated in Colombia since the 1960s.
Venezuelan annual inflation climbed to 32.2 percent in June in metropolitan Caracas as price controls on food prices were eased. Monthly inflation rose by 2.4 percent, slowing from 3.2 percent in May as price gains for nonalcoholic drinks, restaurants and hotels slowed, the Central Bank said Tuesday.
Sales of new cars in Venezuela fell 27.4 percent in the first half of the year, reversing a recent upward trend as economic growth slowed and President Hugo Chavez capped foreign car imports in a bid to boost domestic production.
Venezuela's Roman Catholic Church is condemning efforts to ban 400 potential candidates - most from the opposition - from running in upcoming elections.
FEDERAL COURT
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez was personally involved in efforts to conceal his nation's participation in the scandal surrounding a briefcase that contained $800,000, according to testimony obtained by the FBI and presented last week in Miami federal court.
Hugo Chávez, once a key mediator in securing hostage releases from Colombian rebels, could do little more than phone congratulations to President Alvaro Uribe after this week's bold rescue.
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