Reuters
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 00:00
This time only seven small banks have been closed due to mismanagement and the government is promising to pay most depositors back before Christmas Eve
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 00:00
Both the U.S. Generalized Systems of Preferences (GSP) and a separate program for three countries in the Andean region -- Peru, Colombia and Ecuador -- expire on December 31
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez's purge of Venezuela's banks has shone a spotlight on a powerful group of politicians and businessmen inside and outside government
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
"We have a solid bank system," Chavez told an audience of leading bankers and financial officials summoned to his Miraflores presidential palace to hear a speech
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
Lula's chosen candidate in next October's presidential race, chief of staff Dilma Rousseff, did not benefit much from the improving economy
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 00:00
In a move likely to win him support, Chavez said he had accepted the resignation of Science and Technology Minister Jesse Chacon, whose brother was arrested on Saturday following the closure of the bank he headed
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 00:00
Chavez has nationalized many economic sectors in recent years, and his words cannot be taken lightly
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 00:00
Venezuelan troops had sent more than 400 illegal Colombian and Brazilian miners across the border from makeshift gold camps
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 00:00
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accused Venezuela on Wednesday of imposing an illegal trade blockade similar to the U.S. embargo on Cuba after his Andean neighbor said Colombia was engaged in "psychological war"
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 00:00
Here are brief profiles of the three leading presidential candidates in the poor, natural gas-exporting country