GlobalPost — Venezuela

Facebook: A tool for cops and robbers

Charlie Devereux — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:58:44 +0000

In Venezuela criminals use Facebook to research targets. Cops use it too — but not always for scrupulous purposes.

Soccer team's murder leaves villagers scared

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:55:33 +0000

The murder of an amateur soccer team has heightened tensions between Colombia and Venezuela.

No watching "Family Guy" in Venezuela

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:04:45 +0000

Venezuela thinks "Family Guy" and "The Simpsons" are unsuitable. But it's OK with "Baywatch."

Saving the leatherback turtle

Charlie Devereux — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:04:38 +0000

Stamping its identity on the chocolate market

Charlie Devereux — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:57:54 +0000

Venezuela produces some of the world's best cacao — so why doesn't it make chocolate?

Inside Venezuela's beauty factory

Charlie Devereux — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:01:47 +0000

Stanford scam bilked Jews out of millions

Todd Bensman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:50:45 +0000

A GlobalPost Passport investigation finds that the $8 billion Stanford Ponzi scheme decimated the savings of Jews in Mexico City and Caracas. Were they explicitly targeted?

"Loin steaks" on the pageant stage

Charlie Devereux — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:09:55 +0000

Video: Venezuela spends millions of hours and dollars grooming its candidates for beauty competitions.

Anti-Chavez and anti-Uribe protesters face off

Nadja Drost — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:59:25 +0000

Social networking organizes international protests against the Venezuelan president.

New waves of displacement

Charlie Devereux — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:18:19 +0000

Colombia's offensive against armed groups has increased the flow of refugees across the Venezuela border.

Caracas: more expensive than London?

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:31:08 +0000

How can a city in a developing country be the world's 15th most expensive — and how do the poor get by?

Return of the dictators?

John Otis — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:14:53 +0000

Colombia's Alvaro Uribe is the latest in a string of Latin American leaders to push for more time in office.

Meet the economic gangsters

Mark Scheffler — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:03:52 +0000

Economic gangsters come in all shapes and sizes — they're Asian dictators and Somali pirates.

A thriving border business

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:46:50 +0000

Smugglers are loading up their cars and selling Venezuela's cheap gas just next door in Colombia.

Colombia and Venezuela face off

Charlie Devereux — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:51:28 +0000

Tensions rise as Colombia accuses Venezuela of supplying Swedish weapons to rebels.

Colombian guerrillas behind kidnappings in Venezuela

John Otis — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:06:55 +0000

With a law enforcement crackdown in Colombia, guerrillas are working across the border.

Clashes continue between Chavez and opposition

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:37:29 +0000

Chavez launches accusations at the governor of a southwestern state.

Tickle me Hugo

Charlie Devereux — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:57:22 +0000

Where you can stock up on Hugo Chavez dolls and T-shirts.

In Honduras, a media crackdown

Ioan Grillo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:38:34 +0000

Media situation in Honduras reflects larger battle in region between leftist leaders and oligarchs.

Stuck in traffic

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:06:47 +0000

In Venezuela, traffic has become a hot-button political issue.

Venezuela's complex oil terrain

Charlie Devereux — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:12:23 +0000

Mixed messages from Venezuela to foreign oil companies

A crackdown on Chavez opponents?

Charlie Devereux — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:12:39 +0000

Faced with corruption charges, a leading opposition figure goes into exile.

Barack, meet Hugo. Hugo, meet Barack.

Charlie Devereux — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:49:04 +0000

It's all smiles when Venezuela's Chavez meets Obama.

Chavez-speak

Charlie Devereux — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:32:40 +0000

Venezuela's president employs populist — and sometimes vulgar — language.

Hugo Chavez: Re-writing history

Charlie Devereux — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:57:38 +0000

A new take on Venezuela's historical figures

The "E" word: Venezuela and the return of expropriation

Charlie Devereux — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:48:43 +0000

An emboldened Chavez moves to extend his government's reach over private property.

Venezuela's media is caught in a vicious circle

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:42:59 +0000

Outlets supporting Hugo Chavez proliferate under the media-savvy president.

Dropping oil prices pinch Venezuela's economy

Charlie Devereux — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:37:49 +0000

After riding high on surging oil prices, Hugo Chavez is facing tough economic choices.

Hugo Chavez scores victory to extend term

Charlie Devereux — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:40:08 +0000

Venezuela votes to allow socialist president to run for re-election.

Venezuelans vote on term limits

Charlie Devereux — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:37:50 +0000

Referendum will decide if term limits can be scrapped, a proposal that would allow Hugo Chavez to run for re-election.

Venezuelans protest plan to scrap term limits

Charlie Devereux — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:55:12 +0000

On Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, thousands of Venezuelans turned out to protest an amendment to the constitution — set for a Feb. 15 referendum — that would abolish all political term limits. It would allow Venezuela’s controversial socialist president, Hugo Chavez, to run for office again after his second term concludes in 2012.

The rum rush

Pascale Bonnefoy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:54:30 +0000

Wal-Mart's entry into Chile's market means an end to Cuban rum sales at some stores.