Simon Romero
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 00:00
President Evo Morales and legislative candidates from his political movement seemed headed to easy victories in nationwide elections on Sunday
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 00:00
The arrest on Saturday of the financier, Arne Chacon, and the removal of his brother, Jesse, as science minister, which Mr. Chavez announced Sunday, points to a broadening purge of a group of magnates known as Boligarchs
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 00:00
But their traditions are coming under siege, and anthropologists say it is a wonder that their cultures remain intact at all. Among the daunting challenges they face are a thriving illicit bush-meat trade, incursions by gold miners and the government's re
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez has been facing a public outcry in recent weeks over power failures that, after six nationwide blackouts in the last two years, are cutting electricity for hours each day in rural areas and in industrial cities
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 00:00
Mr. Rotondaro did not say how the virus had spread into the region. The area has come under tightening control by the military since President Hugo Chavez expelled American missionaries from the Amazon in 2005.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 00:00
Images of Mr. Chavez, while usually ubiquitous in rural Venezuela, were absent here. Some devotees said they liked Mr. Chavez. Others said they did not
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 00:00
The tirades against Mr. Moore, including requests broadcast on state-controlled media that he rectify what he said, were followed by a bit of soul-searching within Mr. Chavez's political movement as to whether a better-honed sense of humor was needed
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 00:00
These days, visitors travel by propeller plane over the bleak savanna to get here, or by bus past the occasional guerrilla or paramilitary checkpoint. The visitors rarely come. But when they do, they get a glimpse into a four-decade experiment to alter ci
Friday, September 18, 2009 - 00:00
Murders in this hardened city have grown so widespread that looking at the homicide statistics alone can seem banal
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 00:00
The scandal, which has unfolded over months, intensified in recent weeks with the disclosure of an audio intercept of a top official at the United States Embassy