Security
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
Government inspectors backed by soldiers have shut more than 70 shops in Venezuela accused of trying to cash in on last week's currency devaluation
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
The cost of most imports is expected to double with President Hugo Chavez's move to adjust the bolivar against the dollar. He wants to boost exports
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
As Venezuela significantly devalued its currency , experts agree that the U.S. will likely suffer from a loss of exports with the country
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
In all, the Institute for the Defense of People's Access to Goods and Services sanctioned 73 percent of the businesses it inspected Monday
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 00:00
Economists are critical of the complex new currency system, with three separate exchange rates
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
"I don't understand why people are standing in line. They are victims of terrorist media campaigns creating fear that prices will rise"
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
Chavez said he’ll create an anti-speculation committee after private businesses warned that prices would double and consumers rushed to buy household appliances and televisions
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's firing of the country's central bank president last Wednesday has provoked a constitutional crisis, not unlike the one that rocked Honduras last summer.
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
Venezuela is at risk of a devastating power collapse as drought pushes water levels precariously low in the country's biggest hydroelectric dam
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
After some gains in Mexico's drug war in 2009, Tijuana has had a bloody turn of events in the new year. More than a dozen people, four of them students, were reported slain in the last week.