Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?

Chávez has announced his support for the Iranian president's claim of election victory. The two leaders have developed close ties based on mutual animosity to the US.

Ray Walser, a veteran Foreign Service officer, is a Senior Policy Analyst specializing in Latin America at The Heritage Foundation. Now that President Obama and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez have ...

American anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan stood with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this week as the socialist leader called for activists everywhere to help bring down “the U.S. empire ...

Retired leader Fidel Castro broke nearly a week of silence since the death of friend and ally Hugo Chavez, saying on Monday that Cuba has lost its "best friend" with the late Venezuelan president ...

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, has described late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as the best friend the Cuban people have had in their history. Prensa Latina posts the full letter ...

HAVANA — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans filed through Havana's Revolution Square on Wednesday in a May Day parade that paid tribute to Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader who was the Caribbean ...

Cuba's Fidel Castro praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a champion of the poor and said Cubans had lost their best friend ever, in his first comments on the death last week of his ...

Belarus declared three days of official mourning to mark the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, starting today, and ordered flags to fly at half-staff.

For a socialist like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, it sure helps to have lots of oil money. It’s that wealth that has helped him make friends across the Americas, while fraying ties with the ...

Pres. HUGO Chávez: Very well, thank you. And you? Very well. ANNOUNCER:-and the United States an enemy. PHIL GUNSON, The Economist: He's convinced George Bush goes to bed thinking of ways to ...