Venezuela’s firebrand leader Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Sunday of a “shameful” role in the Egyptian crisis and of hypocrisy for supporting, then abandoning strongmen round the world. Chavez, Washington’s leading critic in the Americas, said he had spoken to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for a briefing on the protests... 

Venezuela says its oil reserves surpass Saudi Arabia's. Venezuela has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world leader in oil reserves with certified deposits leaping to 297 billion barrels at the end of 2010, President Hugo Chavez’s government said Saturday. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters that the new reserves, which pushed the total 41 percent higher than the previous year, were... 

Hugo Chavez had vowed Larry Palmer would not be US ambassador Washington has revoked the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador to the US, the US state department has said. The move comes amid a diplomatic dispute between the two countries over President Barack Obama’s choice of ambassador to Caracas, Larry Palmer. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been angered by comments Mr Palmer made about... 

Tension flared between the US and Venezuela over Washington’s nominee for ambassador on Saturday. President Hugo Chavez warned the diplomat would be detained and put on the next flight home if he sets foot in the country. For months Mr Chavez warned that President Obama’s nominee, Larry Palmer, would not be welcome due to critical remarks he made about Venezuela’s government. During... 

Russia delivered at least 1,800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to Venezuela in 2009, U.N. arms control data show, despite vigorous U.S. efforts to stop President Hugo Chavez’s stridently anti-American government from acquiring the weapons. The United States feared that the missiles could be funneled to Marxist guerrillas fighting Colombia’s pro-American government or Mexican drug... 

Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit o Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on October19, 2010. The previously undisclosed contract provides for the establishment... 

Agricultural workers at El Charcote, one of the Vestey estates that was taken over in 2005. Plans to nationalise the Vestey meat empire’s Venezuelan estates are a blow to one of the UK’s richest families. In 1903, two entrepreneurial Liverpudlian brothers arrived in Caracas determined to add to their burgeoning empire of foreign food producers by buying Venezuelan cattle ranches. Over the... 

Venezuela’s opposition won a third of the seats in parliament and claimed a majority of the popular vote in elections, boosting its hopes of defeating President Hugo Chavez at the next presidential poll in 2012. Although Mr Chavez’s Socialist Party retained a majority in the 165-seat National Assembly, it fell short of its goal of keeping at least the two thirds it needs to pass major... 

The Washington Post by-line was “How Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez tries to hide the truth about his government!” So I would like to rephrase the question: “Is the Washington Post attempting to hide the REAL truth about the Hugo Chavez government by innuendo instead of merely giving us the facts?” I am well aware of the record of the Washington Post as a disseminator of US... 

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, right, shakes hand with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad during a welcoming ceremony at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Bashar al-Assad is in Venezuela for a two-day official visit. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as a “genocidal” government on Sunday as he hosted Syrian President Bashar... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa wave June 25, 2010, in Otavalo, Ecuador, at the end of the ALBA summit. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned of US military engagement in secret missions in North Korea and Iran while world focuses on the World Cup. “They put a bomb in a South Korean ship, and the Yankees did it to try to start a war between the two... 

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has little room to critique Arizona's new immigration law given the country's own record of human rights violations, experts told FoxNews.com. On the heels of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s speech slamming Arizona’s immigration law, Cuban leaders and Venezuela’s president are adding to the chorus and calling the law ‘racist and xenophobic”... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (right) and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has pledged to help Venezuela draw up plans for a nuclear power plant. Atomic energy was one of many areas of cooperation discussed during Putin’s first trip to the South American country. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that the power plant would be built to... 

HAARP I have heard rumors that Haiti has vast oil reserves — and that the globalists want these reserves. However, the globalists cannot get the reserves, because the oil belongs to the Haitian people. So the globalists do not allow the Haitians to exploit the oil reserves, because it would allow the Haitian people to prosper. It would allow the Haitians to build proper infrastructure, so that...