It was the early 90s, and Venezuela was in the mists of unprecedented political chaos. A group of high-ranking military ...

Joe Biden carefully avoided taking a public stance on the coup in Venezuela but later wanted to “ratchet” up efforts to get Hugo Chávez out of power. Jeremy Scahill April 27 2021, 2:59 p.m.

The news of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death this week was striking not because it came as a surprise. Rather it was because his death ignited a bitter debate over what the populist ...

President Hugo Chavez (search) angrily accused the United States on Tuesday of backing a coup in 2002 and of helping Venezuela's opposition stage another attempt to overthrow him.

VENEZUELA * Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a coup conspiracy uncovered by his government included a plan to kill him, but political opponents dismissed his allegations as a "show" aimed at ...

President Hugo Chavez celebrated the anniversary of the 1992 coup attempt that launched his political career while opposition leaders who have fought for months to oust him mourned the dozens ...

Army Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez, who led a 1992 attempted coup, speaks to reporters on March 26, 1994, after he was freed from jail. Chavez was freed after charges were dropped against him for leading ...

Associated Press, FileIn this June 29, 2009, photo, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, second left, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, third left ...

Special Report: It is two years since Hugo Chavez's death but to his followers it feels like a lifetime. Venezuela is collapsing amid falling oil prices, rampant corruption, political oppression ...

Full Coverage: Hugo Chavez In 1992 that group, the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement, led a failed coup that ended with 18 people killed and Chavez imprisoned. Chavez spent two years in prison ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the firebrand socialist and avowed enemy of the United States who transformed politics in his native country, died Tuesday at the age of 58. Diagnosed with an unsp… ...