A farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela’s government has died in a military hospital where he had been taken against his will. For opponents of President Hugo Chavez, Franklin Brito’s emaciated figure...

Almost 500 people were affected by a gas leak at a pesticide factory in the central Venezuelan state of Aragua, the official ABN news agency said Tuesday. The state’s deputy director of emergency management, Eliu Rodriguez, said that more than 70...

As Hillary Clinton continues her Latin American tour, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered a rather melodic response to the U.S. Secretary of State’s fiscal advice for his government. In the midst of a Wednesday speech, Chavez — known...

The Venezuelan government has set itself the goal of raising annual gold production from the current 4.2 tons to 10 tons next year, the minister of basic industries and mining said Monday.

President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that the world’s tallest waterfall has been called Angel Falls too long and should revert to its original indigenous name instead of commemorating the U.S. pilot who spotted it in 1933. He called for renaming the...

They’re called “calaqueros” — skullmongers — and they make a living off Guatemala City’s infamously high murder rate. They chase ambulances, wait outside morgues or speed to crime scenes, trying to be the first to reach...

A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and...