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  • Venezuela plans new measures to improve dollar supply Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 | 7:26 PM ET

    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.

  • *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.

  • Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer "poisoning" accusation Tuesday, 12 Mar 2013 | 10:40 AM ET

    *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.

  • *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.

  • *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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • *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.

  • * "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.

  • * "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.

  • * "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.

  • At least two dozen heads of state were due to attend Hugo Chavez's funeral on Friday during an outpouring of grief for the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.

  • * "He was invincible," Raul Castro says. CARACAS, March 8- At least two dozen heads of state were due to attend Hugo Chavez's funeral on Friday during an outpouring of grief for the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.

  • *Emotional wake for Chavez draws 2 million. *Source says president was in coma before death. CARACAS, March 7- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and put on display "for eternity" at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.

  • CARACAS, March 7- Saluting, clenching fists and making the Roman Catholic sign of the cross over Hugo Chavez's open casket, Venezuelans crowded on Thursday to see their deceased leader one last time and pledge that his socialist revolution will not die.

  • Cuba to open state-run wholesaler for private companies Thursday, 7 Mar 2013 | 12:55 AM ET

    HAVANA, March 7- Cuba established on Thursday a state-run wholesale company to sell food products, industrial and other consumer goods to private companies and the state sector, a step aimed at meeting a key demand of local entrepreneurs.

  • *Several Latin American leaders fly to Caracas. CARACAS, March 6- Weeping and shouting, a sea of Hugo Chavez's supporters paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in an emotional outpouring that could help his deputy win an election and keep his self-styled socialist revolution alive.

  • *Several Latin American leaders fly to Caracas. CARACAS, March 6- Shattered supporters of Hugo Chavez paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in a flood of emotion that allies hope will help his deputy win an election and keep his self-styled revolution alive.

  • CARACAS, March 6- Shattered supporters of Hugo Chavez paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in a flood of emotion allies hope will help his deputy win an election due in the coming weeks and keep his self-styled revolution alive.

  • CARACAS, March 6- Former bus driver and union leader Nicolas Maduro followed a simple strategy when he filled in for cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez over the past three months: copy his boss's policies, his style and even his fierce rhetoric.

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