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In this May 14, 2013 photo, a National Guard soldier frisks a man outside his car at a checkpoint that is part of the "Secure Homeland" initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela. Since Monday, this scene is playing out day and night at dozens of military checkpoints set up here in the socialist government's latest attempt to control the oil-rich country’s pandemic of violence.
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Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums

Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

  • A woman who just bought toilet paper at a grocery store reads her receipt as she leaves the private store in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities _ toilet paper. Economists say Venezuela's shortages stem from price controls meant to make basic goods available to the poorest parts of society and the government's controls on foreign currency.

    Venezuelans scrambling to find scarce toilet paper

    Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government's promise to import 50 million rolls. Photo Gallery Available

  • Empresas Polar chief executive Lorenzo Mendoza gives a news conference at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 13, 2013. Mendoza said Monday that, in his words, "the accusations that we are producing less than last year are false," rejecting President Nicolas Maduro's claims that it's to blame for the country's persistent food shortages. Mendoza offered to buy or rent government-owned corn processing plants to increase Venezuela's production, and food makers say shortages of basic foods like sugar, milk, butter and cornmeal stem from the socialist government's price controls and a lack of foreign currency to pay for imports.

    Venezuela food maker denies blame for shortages

    Venezuela's biggest food company on Monday hit back at President Nicolas Maduro's claims that it's to blame for the country's persistent food shortages. Photo Gallery Available

  • Venezuela's 'Carlos the Jackal' seeks repatriation

    A lawyer representing the convicted terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" is urging Venezuela's government to demand that France return her Venezuelan-born client to his homeland.

  • In this May 1, 2013 photo, members of the opposition hold Venezuelan flags during a May Day march in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans have long been obsessed by politics, especially during the Chavez years, as the populist leader denounced his opponents as ìthe squalid onesî and the opposition tried vainly to oust him through a coup and a referendum. Many, however, say the tensions have reached a pitch not seen here since that 2002 coup, which briefly pushed Chavez from office.

    ICC asked to investigate alleged Venezuela abuse

    A Venezuelan civil rights group has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged physical and psychological abuse of detained young protesters at military bases following last month's disputed presidential election.

  • In this photo taken April 30, 2013, Jose Pastano, 71, speaks during an interview at his house in Caracas, Venezuela. In a country evenly split between the ruling party and opposition, countless families have been torn apart by political divisions. The retired bus mechanic chided his children for backing Venezuela's opposition, calling them ungrateful for all that the late President Hugo Chavez had done for the country during his 14 years in power.

    Venezuelan politics get personal, divide families

    A portrait of Hugo Chavez stared down from a black metal frame as Jose Pastano sipped coffee after dinner with his sons in the slum house he shares with 17 relatives on the western edge of the capital. Photo Gallery Available

  • Venezuela: US officials get access to American

    Venezuela's government has granted U.S. diplomats access to a California man who is being held while he awaits trial on charges of espionage and fomenting unrest.

  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro wears a helmet decorated with an Uruguayan flag as he visits the Urutransfor factory, which produces transformers, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Maduro is on a one-day official visit to Uruguay.

    Venezuela leader, rivals take battle on the road

    Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his Argentine counterpart and ally, Cristina Fernandez, announced new energy and food agreements Wednesday, then Maduro cheered supporters of Argentina's president with a rousing speech at a soccer-stadium rally. Photo Gallery Available

  • Family: No US access to man held in 'nightmare'

    U.S. diplomats have been given no access to a California man held in Venezuela for nearly two weeks in what his family on Monday called a "nightmare" that unfolded after he was accused of being a spy fomenting postelection unrest.

  • Venezuela to tap military to fight crime

    Venezuela's top security official announced Sunday the government of President Nicolas Maduro will use the military to fight rampant violent crime, raising concerns among activists who warned the initiative could lead to human rights violations.

  • Honduras and Guatemala join Petrocaribe program

    Venezuela's president says Honduras and Guatemala have been included in the Petrocaribe program, under which his country provides oil and natural gas on preferential terms.

  • In this April 25, 2013 photo, a surfer walks along the shore near the refinery el Palito in Moron, Venezuela. The oil flowing from the El Palito refinery sells for more than five times what it cost when President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. Yet when Chavez died in March he left Venezuela's cash cow, its state-run oil company, in such dire straits that analysts say $100-a-barrel oil may no longer be enough to keep the country afloat barring a complete overhaul of a deteriorating petroleum industry.

    Outlook grim in Venezuela's essential oil industry

    Only the filthy water from broken sewer pipes keeps the dust down in front of Ramon Boet's shop, which sells statues of saints and other religious objects. Photo Gallery Available

  • Guyana to send rice to Venezuela under Petrocaribe

    Guyana says it will resume rice shipments to neighboring Venezuela following the renewal of a $130 million rice-for-oil deal between the two South American countries.

  • Obama: US not interfering in Venezuelan election

    President Barack Obama says the idea that an American filmmaker detained by Venezuela's government is a spy is, in his words, "ridiculous."

  • President Barack Obama glances at reporters as he returns to the White House in Washington from a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica, Saturday, May 4, 2013.

    Venezuela's government condemns Obama's comments

    Venezuela's government on Saturday angrily rejected comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama about the South American country's political crisis and accused Washington of being behind violence that has followed its recent presidential election. Photo Gallery Available

  • Opposition protesters hold up a poster of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro that reads in Spanish "I don't accept it, illegitimate," referring to his winning the presidential election during a May Day march in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

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    Political tensions run high at Venezuela May Day rallies

    The rallies were, ostensibly, to celebrate international workers day, and counted on the support of rival unions and labor organizations. But they were also a show of political strength in a nation still at odds over the April 14 presidential vote.

  • The Oppenheimer Report

    Andres Oppenheimer: U.S., Europe take new step to crack down on ‘tax havens’

    While many of us were focused on the Boston bombings, Venezuela’s dubious elections and North Korea’s war noises in recent weeks, the world’s biggest nations took a potentially historic step — they launched a system to detect secret offshore bank accounts.

  • In My Opinion

    Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s fastest-growing economies of 2013

    New economic projections from the World Bank and the United Nations show that Latin America countries will keep growing at moderate rates this year, except for the booming economies of three countries that start with the letter P — Paraguay, Panama and Peru.

  • The Oppenheimer Report

    Andres Oppenheimer: Venezuela’s Maduro off to a bad start

    While media coverage of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration on Friday centered on the contested April 14 election results, a dramatic escalation of government human rights violations since the election has gone virtually unnoticed.

  • Venezuela's interim President Nicolas Maduro raises his fist as he holds up the official certificate declaring him winner of the presidential election at the Electoral Council in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 15, 2013.

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    Maduro to take power amid questions and protests

    Interim Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will be sworn in to office even as the opposition is calling for a recount of Sunday’s contested vote.

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