Venezuelans elect mayors and governors Sunday in a key test of President Hugo Chávez's political strength. An overwhelming victory by Chávez's candidates would prompt him to continue pulling Venezuela to the left, analysts said. It would also embolden him to seek public approval early next year to overturn term limits that currently keep him from running for president again in 2012.
La presidenta del Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, indicó hoy que la junta electoral dará los resultados de los comicios del domingo en Venezuela cuando hayan alcanzado un "carácter irreversible''.
President Hugo Chavez faces a critical test of his grip on power against an energized opposition in state and municipal elections Sunday, a year after suffering his first defeat at the polls.
President Hugo Chávez, with his grip on Venezuela's political system at stake, has been campaigning for his allies running in Sunday's elections.
Heavy rains unleashed flooding and mudslides in Venezuela that killed at least eight people, including four children, authorities said Friday.
Prices for Venezuelan oil reached their lowest level in 22 months Friday as fears of a global recession stalled demand, slashing the main source of cash for President Hugo Chávez's hefty state spending.
With long sideburns and black curly locks hanging over his ears and collar, Gustavo Dudamel looks more like a rock star than the next music director of one of the leading U.S. orchestras.
Ciudadanos e instituciones venezolanas donaron más de 4 millones de dólares a los cubanos afectados por los huracanes Gustav, Ike y Paloma, informó este viernes un diplomático cubano.
Nueve fallecidos y unas 300 familias damnificadas dejaron las precipitaciones que azotaron la capital, el centro y occidente de Venezuela, ocasionando deslizamientos de tierras, bloqueos de vías, y el colapso de algunas viviendas, informaron el viernes las autoridades.
The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela next week with a squadron of other Russian warships, was meant to showcase the Kremlin's ability to project naval power abroad and reassert its claim to great power status.
Voters in Venezuela's Barinas state symbolize the support President Hugo Chávez has thrived on. But his following is no longer fanatical.
The Venezuelan opposition has been criticized for not taking advantage of the major electoral victory obtained in December 2007, when voters rejected President Hugo Chávez's project to ''reform'' the constitution, an attempt to concentrate more power in the executive branch -- i.e., himself.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Minh Triet, agreed on Thursday to create a $200 million joint development fund to strengthen economic cooperation between the socialist countries.
La campaña electoral para elegir a 22 gobernadores y más de 300 alcaldes en Venezuela, podría
pasar a la historia como una de las más excéntricas...
With his control of the political system at stake, the president has been campaigning furiously across the country
El ex presidente Carlos Andrés Pérez advirtió en Miami que las elecciones del próximo domingo en Venezuela, significará para los venezolanos un dilema entre un "sedicente comunismo'' y un sistema de gobierno "que le rinda cuentas a sus ciudadanos''.
El precio de la cesta petrolera venezolana en los mercados internacionales cayó el jueves a un nivel histórico por debajo de los $40, el más bajo desde mayo del 2005, en medio de pronósticos que anticipan más caidas en el valor del crudo.
El próximo domingo 23 dos formidables maquinarias electorales medirán sus fuerzas y su eficacia para atraer la mayor cantidad de electores a las urnas de votación y tratar de garantizar una mayor transparencia del proceso, durante los comicios regionales que tendrán lugar en Venezuela.
Post-election violence in Nicaragua could continue after upcoming elections in Venezuela, experts said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's government is strengthening ties with Zimbabwe and pledging deeper cooperation in areas from energy to agriculture.
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