El presidente del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV), Jerónimo Carrera, indicó que el socialismo es un asunto de conciencia, y necesita que la población venezolana se desarrolle intelectual y éticamente para lograr un desarrollo oportuno y justo.

Did you hear that President Chavez is going to Rule by Decree for the next 18 months? The very idea evokes a picture of a not-too-distant South American past, one in which all-powerful executives live out their capricious whims and mete out brutal retribution against political enemies.

Venezuela’s National Statistics Institute released its unemployment data yesterday, saying that unemployment had dropped to 8.4% in December 2006, which is 0.5% lower than the same month in 2005.

Rodríguez respondió a la preocupación expresada por el portavoz adjunto del Departamento de Estado de EEUU, Tom Casey, sobre el proyecto que le otorgará poderes especiales al presidente Chávez, destacando que lo que le "intranquiliza" a EE UU es que Venezuela esté ejerciendo su soberanía como Estado que "defiende" la autodeterminación de los pueblos.

Over the past few days, major newspapers in the United States, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, have published editorials aggressively and harshly criticizing recent declarations and decisions made by re-elected President Hugo Chávez and his cabinet.

After Venezuela's Hugo Chavez told the United Nations he could smell the sulphur in the chamber where President Bush spoke the previous day, some angry Bostonians wanted to pull down the big CITGO neon sign in Kenmore Square, since CITGO oil is pumped in Chavez Country.

El presidente reelecto de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, juró este miércoles ante la Asamblea Nacional (AN) desarrollar su segundo mandato presidencial en pro de la construcción del Socialismo.

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez swore in 15 new and 12 continuing members of his cabinet today. The cabinet shake-up comes as Chavez is about to renew his own oath of office on Wednesday, at the start of his second full term as President of Venezuela.

With most of the votes counted, Hugo Chavez has won Venezuela's Dec. 3 presidential elections with 7,161,637 votes (62.89% of the total), against 4,196,329 votes (36.85%) for his right-wing rival, Manuel Rosales. A total of 14 candidates competed, supported by 79 parties, 24 of which supported Chavez, and 43 of which backed Rosales. No other candidate received over 1% of the vote. Chavez begins his second six-year term in February.

Con la propuesta de reforma constitucional para su próximo mandato, el presidente Hugo Chávez coloca hoy a Venezuela en el centro de un debate que trasciende las fronteras nacionales: la vigencia del socialismo.

"We saw how people voted. It was very transparent," stated John Rummel who traveled to Venezuela as part of a delegation of election observers to witness the voting process in that country’s December 3rd presidential elections.

El Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) triplicó el volumen de sus votos en las elecciones presidenciales de este domingo 3 de diciembre con respecto a los sufragios obtenidos en los comicios legislativos.

For the fourth time in eight years of leadership, the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution submitted himself to the verdict of the voting booths. For the fourth time, he received the growing vote of support of the immense majority of Venezuelan people.

Venezuelan-U.S. Attorney, Eva Golinger, inaugurated her new book during the closing events of the 2nd International Book Fair in Caracas Sunday night. Her book, Bush vs. Chavez: Washington’s War Against Venezuela.

In an extensive press conference of over four hours with representatives from the international media, Venezuelan President Chavez welcomed the U.S. Democratic Party’s success in Tuesdays elections and touched on many other issues.

Agitprop, electoral fraud and dirty tricks may not have been invented in the US, but they certainly were perfected in "the land of the free and home of the brave" that no longer is except in the mind's eye of a diminishing number of diehards, true-believers and others still unaware of the real state of things in America.

The President of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, Tibisay Lucena, said today the poll entity will guarantee the transparency of presidential elections on December 3.

A delegation of US citizens and residents spent September 30-October 8, 2006, in Caracas, Venezuela meeting with a broad cross-section of people representing the Venezuelan government and its opposition, civil and social organizations, the media, the OAS, and the US government. 

Bush’s timeworn hostility for President Chávez is well known. Top secret US government documents released through Freedom of Information Act requests show that the administration’s anti-Chávez operations may even pre-date the September 11th terrorist attacks and the launch of the "war on terror."

Listeners and viewers expecting to find a safe alternative to the corporate-controlled media by turning to the BBC better reconsider their choice based on the vaunted news organization's reporting on Venezuela and specifically on the misinformation it put out in an online piece on October 8...