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*Maduro faces Capriles in election on Sunday. CARACAS, April 11- The late Hugo Chavez's self-declared socialist revolution will be put to the test at a presidential election on Sunday that pits his chosen successor against a younger rival promising change in the nation he polarized.
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CARACAS, April 10- Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles denied on Wednesday accusations from acting President Nicolas Maduro that he would scrap popular welfare policies if he wins Sunday's election.
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CARACAS, April 8- Acting President Nicolas Maduro may struggle to advance the late Hugo Chavez's socialist policies if he wins Venezuela's election on Sunday, lacking both his predecessor's iron grip on a disparate ruling coalition and the robust state finances that cemented his rule.
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CARACAS, April 3- Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles square off in an April 14 vote to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez. *Maduro entered politics in 2000 as a legislator in the National Assembly, where his combative defense of Chavez's policies made him one of the president's proteges.
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BERLIN- Buoyed by solid finances, roaring exports and low unemployment, Germany increasingly sees itself as the only grown-up in Europe, responsible for bringing wayward children into line to hold the family together.
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*West African crude replacing Iranian shipments to India, China. Chief Executive Herbjorn Hansson said Western sanctions on doing business with Iran had led to an increase in oil shipments from West African countries to energy-hungry China and India- longer routes that generate bigger revenues for shipping firms.
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CARACAS, March 15- Venezuela's post-Chavez oil policy will increasingly focus on deals with China and Russia if acting President Nicolas Maduro wins an April 14 election to continue his late boss's socialist programs.
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BOGOTA, March 14- Colombia's FARC rebels blew up the rail line of Colombia's largest coal exporter, Cerrejon, on Thursday, taking the train out of commission for up to four days but not impeding exports, military and company officials said.
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BOGOTA, March 14- Unknown assailants bombed the rail line of Colombia's largest coal exporter on Thursday, knocking 17 wagons off the rails, the Cerrejon coal company said. "Around 4:45 am, the train, which headed towards the coal port of Puerto Bolivar, was attacked with explosives... which produced the derailment of 17 wagons," Cerrejon said in a statement.
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CARACAS, March 13- Venezuela has more fiscal measures coming to improve the supply of dollars within a system of strict currency controls introduced years ago by the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, a senior minister said on Wednesday.
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CARACAS, March 13- Venezuela has more fiscal measures coming to improve the supply of dollars within a system of strict currency controls introduced years ago by the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, a senior minister said on Wednesday.
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*Campaign for April 14 vote off to ugly start. CARACAS, March 12- Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into suspicions that the late President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said.
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*Campaign for April 14 vote off to ugly start. CARACAS, March 12- Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into suspicions that the late President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said. Foreign scientists will be invited to join a government commission, the OPEC nation's acting leader said.
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*Acting President Maduro favorite for April 14 vote. CARACAS, March 11- Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela's election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners still file past Hugo Chavez's coffin.
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*Acting president Maduro favorite for April 14 vote. CARACAS, March 11- Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela's election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners still file past the late Hugo Chavez's corpse.
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CARACAS, March 11- Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela's election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners were still filing past the late Hugo Chavez's corpse.
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CARACAS, March 9- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez slid into a coma the day before he died of respiratory failure after cancer spread into his lungs, sources say.
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*Presidents from Cuba to Iran pay homage. CARACAS, March 8- Mourners from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to U.S. Oscar-winner Sean Penn paid an emotional farewell to Hugo Chavez at Friday's funeral for the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.
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* "He was invincible," Raul Castro says. CARACAS, March 8- Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad amd Cuba's Raul Castro joined about 30 other heads of state at Friday's funeral for Hugo Chavez in an emotional farewell to the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.
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* "He was invincible," Raul Castro says. CARACAS, March 8- From Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Cuba's Raul Castro, about 30 heads of state joined Friday's funeral of Hugo Chavez in a last goodbye to the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.