Crack a joke and stay cool: surviving Venezuela’s queues
CARACAS (Reuters) - It's Sunday morning. The sun is barely up, and already there are long lines outside a large state-run supermarket next to a hillside Caracas slum. Rumor has...
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Venezuela, Guyana to meet over seized oil ship, detained crew
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela and Guyana will meet on Thursday to resolve the fate of a ship and crew hired by a U.S. oil exploration firm that Venezuela seized in...
Venezuela rebuffs Obama, repeats case against U.S. “spy”
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela brushed off criticism from U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday and maintained its accusation that an American detainee in Caracas is a spy pretending to be...
Venezuela rebuffs Obama, repeats case against U.S. “spy”
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela brushed off criticism from U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday and maintained its accusation that an American detainee in Caracas is a spy pretending to be...
Analysis: Rough start to post-Chavez era augurs badly for Venezuela
CARACAS (Reuters) - About the only tranquil place in Caracas over the last few days is a hilltop military museum housing the remains of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Visitors...
Chavez shrine draws crowds of pilgrims a month after his death
CARACAS (Reuters) - Visitors tip-toe round a marble sarcophagus holding Hugo Chavez's remains. Supporters sob as his voice booms from speakers. Foreign tourists photograph displays of his life from precocious...
Capriles mocks “skin-deep” socialists before Venezuela vote
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition presidential candidate tore into government leaders on Wednesday as false revolutionaries lining their pockets while professing faith to the late Hugo Chavez's radical socialism. Trailing...
How to keep Chavez memory alive? Name him 200 times a day!
CARACAS (Reuters) - Hugo Chavez's protege and the new flagbearer of socialism in Venezuela has lost no time proving his loyalty in public - in fact, 3,456 times in just...
Capriles barbs unite “Chavistas” in Venezuela: strategist
CARACAS (Reuters) - Supporters of late president Hugo Chavez will punish opposition leader Henrique Capriles for his anti-government barbs at a vote next month likely to produce a bigger win...
Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer poisoning accusation
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into claims that deceased President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said....