Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez greets supporters during an election rally in Anzoategui, Venezuela on July 12, 2012. President Hugo Chavez has said that Venezuela poses no threat to anyone, including the United States, which considers the Bolivarian Republic a hostile state. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney said President Barack Obama is... 

Republican candidate Mitt Romney (L) and US President Barack Obama Iran’s amicable relations with Latin American states, in particular Venezuela, has become a sticking point in the US presidential campaign, with both leading contenders trading accusations on policies towards South American states allied with the Islamic Republic. The tit-for-tat began when Republican candidate Mitt Romney and his... 

The TV grab, showing the Venezuelan drone built in cooperation with Iran, was broadcast on June 13, 2012 during a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country has manufactured its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), dubbed Arpia-001 (Harpy-001), in cooperation with Iranian experts in order to strengthen the South American state’s defensive power. Venezuela... 

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez A Venezuelan journalist says President Hugo Chavez has been forced to use a wheelchair due to severe pain caused by a fracture in his femur and his spreading cancer. The pro-opposition Venezuelan columnist and radio talk-show host, Nelson Bocaranda, reported this week that Chavez got a fracture in his femur during his radiotherapy in Cuba. Spending most of the last... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a reunion with government members in ‎Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on April 11, 2012.‎ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has flown back to Cuba for another round of radiation therapy for his cancer, few days after undergoing same treatment there. “I must return (…) to Havana,” he said in a message broadcast on radio and television... 

A summit of nearly 30 Western Hemisphere leaders has ended without a joint declaration due to divisions over Cuba and Argentine claims to the Malvinas Islands. “There is no declaration because there is no consensus,” said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos as the summit’s closing news conference. Washington, backed by Canada, stood fast against widespread demands to include in... 

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council officially appointed the date of the presidential election – October 7, 2012. However, the situation in the country is heating up already. According to the Independent Social Agencies, the chances of the current president Hugo Chavez for re-election are getting smaller. The single opposition candidate Enrique Capriles has caught up with him in popularity... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Miraflores presidential palace, Caracas, January 9, 2012 Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a week-long tour of Latin America. The Iranian leader visited Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador. Ahmadinejad does not have many friends in the world. All of them, except for Syria, are in Latin America.... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has ordered the closure of the country’s consulate in the US city of Miami amid tensions over the expulsion of Venezuelan Consul General Livia Acosta Noguera. Chavez said on Friday that the country will close its consulate in Miami, Florida, over the “unjust” and “abusive” removal of Acosta. “What we are going... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Following the expansion of economic and political relations between Tehran and Caracas, US President Barack Obama has demanded the Venezuelan government sever all ties with Iran. “I think the government’s ties with Iran and Cuba have not benefited the interests of Venezuela and its people,” Obama said in the email... 

Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, asserted that the former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, (2002-2010) planned to “make Colombia into the Israel of South America.” According to Chávez, the Uribe administration distanced his country from other nations in the region, “He nearly caused a war with Ecuador and broke relations with Venezuela, and neighboring countries.” The... 

Doctors treating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have confirmed that he has been cured of cancer and enjoys optimal health conditions now, Press TV reports. Doctors at the Military Hospital in Caracas, where Chavez has undergone chemotherapy, have rejected claims of Salvador Navarrete, a Venezuelan surgeon, that the president has an aggressive form of cancer, a Press TV correspondent reported Tuesday. Navarrete... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who undergoes anti-cancer treatment, may live for not more than two years. This opinion was voiced by Salvador Navarrete, who had been Chavez’s personal surgeon in Venezuela. “When I say this, it means that he has no more than two years left. Judging by the information from his family, Chavez has a tumor in his pelvis, or sarcoma, and this is why he is... 

Venezuela’s Ministry of Finance and the country’s Central Bank plan to gradually pull the country’s gold reserves out of the US, Canada, and Europe. A member of the National Assembly of Venezuela Braulio Alvarez told a Press TV correspondent that, “Studies have been carried out and have resulted in the necessity of returning these assets. Why are we paying custody in other countries... 

Hugo Chavez (R) in Cuba with Fidel Castro (L) Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, making his first public appearance since having a tumor removed in Cuba, promised supporters that he will win his battle against cancer though it will likely take some time. Speaking from a balcony at the presidential palace in Caracas yesterday evening, Chavez described how he underwent surgery on June 20 after...