News Source: BBC
| 27 days ago
Venezuela's combative President Hugo Chavez is used to dividing international opinion. But even by his standards, the wrangle over his role in South America's biggest free-trade alliance is pretty impressive. Venezuela officially teamed up with...
News Source: Belleville News-Democrat
| 27 days ago
President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may film a movie in Venezuela. Penn may shoot a film based on a novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, which is set largely in the...
News Source: Times Online
| 27 days ago
In an announcement during a televised Cabinet meeting, President Chávez accused Colombia of dispatching spies at the behest of the CIA in preparation for an invasion...Mr Chávez, a socialist who has antagonised the US by seeking to nationalise...
News Source: CNN
| 27 days ago
Venezuelan authorities have captured two Colombian spies, says President Hugo Chavez, who also accuses the United States of being behind efforts to destabilize his leftist government. The Colombian Administrative Department of Security, known by its...
News Source: Press TV
| 27 days ago
Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas confirmed the arrests, noting that they were members of Colombia's DAS state security agency. He added that they were "captured while committing acts of espionage," without giving any...
News Source: Reuters
| 27 days ago
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez blamed Dutch company Philips on Tuesday for problems the country's health network has had with medical equipment and said the government reserves the right to take legal action. Chavez's comments echoed those by...