Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 24-08-2010
UPATA, Venezuela (Reuters) – A collapsed tunnel at a wildcat gold pit in south Venezuela has killed six people and injured another two, authorities said, in South America’s latest mining accident this year.
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Venezuela gold mine collapse kills 6
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 24-08-2010
CARACAS (Reuters) – A cave-in at a wildcat gold mine in south Venezuela has killed seven people and left others trapped, officials and a miner said on Tuesday.
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Venezuela mine accident kills seven
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 09-08-2010
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged rebels in neighbouring Colombia to lay down arms on Sunday and warned the new government of President Juan Manuel Santos to avoid accusations Venezuela helps the leftist guerrillas.
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Chavez urges Colombia rebels to put down arms
Filed Under (world updates) by CarmenGay on 01-08-2010
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia rejected on Saturday accusations by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that Bogota was planning an attack on neighboring Venezuela, saying the socialist leader was deceiving his people with such charges.
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Colombia says "never" thought to attack Venezuela
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 27-07-2010
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut oil supplies to the United States in case of a military attack by Colombia as a row escalates over charges that Venezuela is harboring Colombian rebels.
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SCENARIOS – Will Colombia-Venezuela crisis worsen?
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 16-07-2010
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela exhumed the remains of 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar on Friday and will test them to see if he was poisoned by enemies in Colombia.
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Venezuela exhumes hero Bolivar’s bones for tests
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 15-07-2010
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia has proof leaders of outlawed rebel groups are hiding in neighbouring Venezuela, the government said on Thursday in a statement likely to further strain already tense relations between the Andean countries.
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Colombia says has proof rebels hiding in Venezuela
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 12-07-2010
LAGUNILLAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Fishermen from San Luis on Venezuela’s oil-producing Lake Maracaibo dive from their boats and minutes later return to the beach, arms loaded with piles of sticky garbage coated black with crude oil.
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Crude spills mar Venezuela oil hub Lake Maracaibo
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 27-06-2010
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez described Israel on Saturday as a genocidal state that acted as an assassin for the United States, predicting the Middle East nation would one day be “put in its place.”
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Chavez: ‘genocidal’ Israel will be put in its place
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 15-06-2010
CARACAS (Reuters) – The fugitive boss of Venezuela’s opposition Globovision television station accused socialist President Hugo Chavez on Monday of ordering his arrest to stifle his criticism of the government.
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Fugitive TV tycoon denounces Venezuela’s Chavez