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Anti-government activists across Venezuela are toppling giant statues of Hugo Chávez to express their anger over the alleged stealing of an election by the late president's handpicked successor ...
Saddam Hussein with Hugo Chavez at Baghdad, Iraq on 2000. In particular, relations between Venezuela and the United States deteriorated markedly as Chávez became highly critical of the foreign policy of the United States, [355] opposing the U.S. led 2003 invasion of Iraq and condemning the NATO-led 2011 military intervention in Libya.
The Venezuelan coup attempt of February 1992 was an attempt to seize control of the government of Venezuela by the Hugo Chávez-led Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) that took place on 4 February 1992. [3]
In 1970, Venezuela had been one of the 20 wealthiest countries in the world measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita; Pérez turned the country "into a socialist nightmare of price ...
El Universal explains how the Venezuelan migrant crisis in Venezuela has been caused by the "deterioration of both the economy and the social fabric, rampant crime, uncertainty and lack of hope for a change in leadership in the near future." [53] In 1998, the year Chavez was first elected, only 14 Venezuelans were granted asylum in the United ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was to have been sworn in to his latest term in office on Thursday. Instead, the dictator who has led his country for 14 years lay in a hospital bed in Cuba ...
The Coordinadora Democrática, led by the business federation Fedecámaras and the trade union federation Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV), called for a fourth paro cívico, which turned out to be the most serious, and is known as the 2002–2003 oil strike, to begin on 2 December 2002. The opposition also called a recall ...
Hugo Chevez died from cancer last night after 14 years as President of Venezuela. In the short term, Chavez's death means little for the oil markets, which shrugged off the news. The question now ...