VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela's beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday before an estimated 55,000 people, ...

Pope Leo XIV has canonized José Gregorio Hernández, Venezuela's 'doctor of the poor,' giving the nation its first saint.

In Venezuela, one of the most violent countries in the world, having an armed escort has long been a shield against kidnapping, and worse. In a rich neighborhood east of Caracas, a bodyguard flashes ...

Archbishop Ulises Gutiérrez of Ciudad Bolívar and second vice president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, lamented that the country is falling back into “extreme poverty.” In a statement to ACI ...

CARACAS (Reuters) – Around three-fourths of Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty as the once-prosperous OPEC nation’s hyperinflationary economic collapse continued for a seventh straight year, ...

Venezuela's high-energy, cleaner-burning coal is almost entirely sold for export. Venezuela provides raw coal to Turkey, ...

Venezuela's economy collapsed under Hugo Chavez's socialism, with hyperinflation reaching 63,000% in 2018 despite the country's vast oil reserves.

At some point, internal enemies will arise, but Maduro has built a resilient authoritarian system with himself firmly ...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday at 58, rose from poverty in a dirt-floor adobe house to unrivaled influence in Venezuela as its president, consolidating power and wielding the ...

The U.S. military destroyed a fifth boat in the Caribbean Sea this week that the Trump White House alleges carried narcotics ...