Venezuela

• Tuesday, October 7th 2014 - 06:16 UTC

  Ambassador Castro criticizes 'holdouts' and thanks UK unions' support for Argentina

  

  Argentine ambassador in the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro has fiercely criticized the conduct of holdout investors and thanked UK unions for their support in the dispute with 'vulture funds', during an address to the British umbrella trade union UNITE.

• Friday, October 3rd 2014 - 06:15 UTC

  Chavista lawmaker stabbed at his home in Caracas: “intentional homicide” argues government

  

  Robert Serra, a young “Chavista” ruling party lawmaker, died after being stabbed in his home in Caracas in an “intentional homicide,” government officials said, in Venezuela's latest high-profile violent crime.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2014 - 06:24 UTC

  Mysterious outbreak of hemorrhagic fever syndrome in Venezuela kills ten

  

  An outbreak of a mysterious hemorrhagic fever syndrome in the Venezuelan state of Aragua and the country’s capital Caracas has left ten people dead in the last three weeks. Reports indicate that nine people have so far succumbed to the disease in the northern state and a tenth person has died in the capital.

• Monday, September 29th 2014 - 09:22 UTC

  Venezuela's Bolivar hits a record low of 100 to the US dollar

  

  Venezuela's Bolivar currency hit a record low 100 to the U.S. dollar on the black market on Friday, making the dollar 16 times more expensive than the strongest official rate, according to a website that tracks it.

• Sunday, September 28th 2014 - 10:02 UTC

  The land of beauty queens desperately short of quality breast implants

  

  From a lack of toilet paper that caused a stink, to a dearth of staple food items that left shoppers sucking salt, the Venezuelan people have been reeling under the blows of almost constant shortages for well over a year.

• Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 - 04:56 UTC

  “Just you wait; I'm coming” president Maduro tells US main newspapers

  

  Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has said he will travel to New York this week for his debut appearance as president at the United Nations General Assembly despite “racist” editorials against him in major US newspapers.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 05:13 UTC

  Venezuela quietly working to ensure a seat at the UN Security Council

  

  Venezuela’s populist government has quietly secured the backing of Latin America and the Caribbean to obtain a diplomatic trophy that long eluded the late Hugo Chavez: a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 17:00 UTC

  There are two Mercosur, but only the ideological one prevails

  

  The original Mercosur is over; it has been reduced to a political block with a three member board, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, according to Demetrio Magnoli a renowned Folha de Sao Paulo columnist who added that the 'political' Mercosur has helped the Alliance of the Pacific to advance.

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 - 06:29 UTC

  “Our Chavez who art in heaven, the earth, the sea and we delegates,”, “hallowed be your name”

  

  Members of Venezuela's Socialist Party have rolled out a variation of the classic Christian “Lord's Prayer” to implore beloved late leader Hugo Chavez for protection from the evils of capitalism.
  “Our Chavez who art in heaven, the earth, the sea and we delegates,” red-shirted delegate Maria Estrella Uribe recited at the PSUV party Congress.

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Venezuela cheap oil and fuel shipments to allies fall to a five-year low

  

  Venezuela’s shipments of crude oil and fuel to its allies have fallen to a five-year low as a weak economy hits its ability to uphold accords that former president Hugo Chávez struck to lower energy costs for friends and expand his diplomatic clout.