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...

Venezuela once again demanded the extradition of the terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, last Friday. The call was made by Venezuelan foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro on the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of Cubana airline flight 455, which cost the lives of 73 passengers.

For its part, the US media persist regularly in promoting many falsehoods about Venezuela. For example, on just about any Fox News report, one can find references to President Chávez as a "strongman" and other thinly veiled claims that he is a dictator.

Felix Rodriguez, the CEO of Citgo, the Venezuelan-owned gasoline producer and distributor in the U.S., clarified yesterday that it was Citgo that had let expire its contract with the 7-Eleven convenience store chain and not the other way around, as was broadly reported.

Reflecting the thinking and spirit of Noam Chomsky, Hugo Chavez delivered an impassioned speech yesterday [Sept. 20] to the assembled delegates who came to hear him. It's one likely to be favorably remembered many years from now.

THE reaction of Washington's reactionary po-faced politicians to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's light-hearted reference to George W Bush as the devil showed his remarkable ability to get under their skin.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez accused US Southern Command General John Bantz Craddock of trying to destabilise Venezuela, earlier this week, after Craddock said that Arab terrorists were training in the country.

Venezuela: Ahora es de todos! This slogan, appearing on a poster beneath a simple drawing of three children in the colors of the national flag, means “Venezuela: Now it’s for everyone.”

Venezuelan supporters of President Hugo Chavez are openly questioning who the United States is funding in their country. A lawsuit may soon give the answer

Venezuela’s plans to reduce its dependency on the US market for its oil exports took a step forward yesterday as President Hugo Chávez signed several agreements with the Chinese government in Beijing.

The trip to Venezuela marked the culmination of a college seminar in which I registered along with 16 others here in Connecticut.

Washington’s incendiary response to Venezuela’s candidacy for the Latin American UN Security Council seat is indicative of its standard combative riposte to any serious challenge against the neo-liberal global economic order.

U.S. uses its muscle in contest over whether Venezuela or Guatemala will get the Latin American non-permanent Council seat. ... The race is close but Caracas is likely to win.
If so, it will represent a crushing defeat for State Department diplomacy.

Thousands of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender (GLBT) marched in this year’s GLBT Pride parade in Caracas yesterday. This marks the sixth year in a row that Venezuela has held a gay pride parade.

Over the course of forty years, Venezuela’s wealthy oligarchy plundered the nation’s wealth and turned a relatively prosperous country into one with 80 % of its people living in poverty. 

U.S. specialists are currently awaiting the White House’s next drug certification report, which is normally released in September, to see whether the Bush Administration will continue to use the document as a political tool rather than a piece of objective research.

Hundreds of representatives from various indigenous Venezuelan ethnicities marched in Caracas on Wednesday in the “First National March of the Indigenous People.”

Charlie Hardy is a former US Catholic priest who spent eight years living among the poor of Caracas in a house of compressed cardboard without sanitation during the dying days of Venezuela’s ancien regime that were triggered by the Caracazo or social explosion of February 27th 1989 following a hike in the price of petrol.