Chile quake: The view from Valdivia
Assessing the damage from a city that has already faced "the big one."
VALDIVIA, Chile – One of the world’s six-largest earthquakes in recorded history has left hundreds dead and damaged buildings, roads, and bridges throughout central Chile.
Chileans slowly are becoming aware of the breadth of the disaster, which President Michelle Bachelet called "a catastrophe of devastating consequences."
Chile’s...
On Chavez's whim, a gold market no more
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Venezuela tries to make it rain
In desperate need of water and electricity, Venezuela is "bombing" clouds and praying for rain.
Venezuelans protest closure of TV station
Students march against the shuttering of an opposition TV station popular as much for its soap operas as its news reporting.
Venezuela converts tourist destinations into farmland
Government says land needed for food security but conservationists fear for the region's fauna.
Venezuela's kidnapping express
The preferred method for Venezuelan kidnappers involves driving victims around while families get the ransom together.
Travel restrictions crimp shopping sprees
Venezuelans must now tell the government where they are traveling and what they are buying.
Newly rich, now under attack
They made their money in Chavez's revolution and seemed untouchable. Now they are in jail.
The rise of a southern axis
How a socialist alliance outlived a free trade agreement and helped cement Hugo Chavez's status as the new leader of the Latin American left.
How idiotic can one be?
Venezuela News And Views - Venezuela - March 12, 2010 00:13 ET
With all the ETA-FARC-chavismo talk of these days and guess what? Today at Lisbon Airport they arrested with a fake Mexican passport an Etarra of note, Andoni Zengotitabengoa. He was trying to catch a flight to, you guessed it, Caracas! The story does not tell us whether he was...
An update on what is happening at Guri dam
The Devils Excrement - Venezuela - March 11, 2010 21:31 ET
Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news, is that the model that I presented the other day is doing ok so far, it was predicting for yesterday a height of the water level at Guri dam of...
She is all legs
Venezuela and Europe - Venezuela - March 11, 2010 08:12 ET
What you see above is a Scolopendra gigantea. They are almost everywhere in Venezuela.I love mountaineering and trekking. When I arrived in Europe and went on trekking trips with Northern friends, they would ask me: why are you always looking at the stones and earth like that?...
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