Venezuelan politicians approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely, the final step before the proposal goes before voters in a referendum.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged soldiers to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States.

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez declared he would nationalise electrical and telecommunication companies, taking a bold step toward increasing state control as he promised to transform Venezuela into a socialist country.

President Hugo Chavez has pulled Venezuela steadily to the left, and now he’s even got the horse on the national flag running that way.

THE shopping mall is a blur of Guess jeans, Louis Vuitton purses and Motorola mobile phones, a temple of consumerism in a country that is supposed to be on a path toward socialism.

Two powerful explosions injured four people and damaged the Spanish embassy and the Colombian consulate in the Venezuelan capital early today.