“Venezuela” on The Daily Caller

Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s “urgent.” Urgent? If that had been the case, why didn’t Mr. Reid bring the measure up last summer? Or last fall? (more)

Some folks are alleging that Tehran and Caracas have inked a deal that will establish a joint ballistic missile base in Venezuela, where Iranian missiles, potentially capable of reaching the United States, would be stationed. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked congress Tuesday to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela — Ascending the narrow streets that wind through this city’s hillside slums, the graffiti steadily gets more radical and anti-American, repeatedly proclaiming “Yankees go home!” amid murals denouncing President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (more)

Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on October19, 2010. The previously undisclosed contract provides for the establishment of a jointly operated military base in Venezuela, and the joint development of ground-to-ground missiles. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez is promising to build new public housing complexes, boost social programs and renovate the long-neglected Caracas subway — and he needs money. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of supporters of President Hugo Chavez filled a downtown Caracas avenue on Saturday to demonstrate their backing for the socialist leader’s crackdown on allegedly crooked real-estate and construction companies. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan health workers say an epidemic that may be malaria has killed dozens of people, decimating three villages of the Yanomami Indians, whose struggle for survival in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest has attracted worldwide support. (more)

The government of Venezuela has promised a full investigation after some of the country’s top business leaders were attacked in Caracas. (more)

A.C. Clark — a pseudonym the author used to protect himself and his family — is the author of the book “The Revolutionary Has No Clothes: Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Farce,” released in 2009. With last week’s election results in Venezuela making news, Clark agreed to answer 10 questions for The Daily Caller about his book and why Americans should care about what happens in the oil-rich Latin American country: (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Monday that his government is carrying out initial studies into starting a nuclear energy program. (more)

It seems Fidel Castro had a deathbed conversion and now seeks to move his country toward capitalism. He told 500,000 government employees that they need to find work in the private sector. Their response, “What is a private sector?” (more)

Colombia has been intermittently on and off the Obama administration’s agenda since it took office in 2009. When Hillary Clinton delivered her foreign policy address at the Council on Foreign Relations last week, she remarked that Mexico is “looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago.” Shortly thereafter, President Obama rebuked the comparison in an LA-based Spanish newspaper. The turnaround is characteristic of Washington’s unjustified ambivalence towards one of our greatest and most promising Latin American allies. (more)

First, news rocketed around the Internet that Fidel Castro himself, in an interview with an American journalist, had denounced the merits of communism. Next, his brother and successor to power on the island nation announced that the state would lay off 500,000 workers by next March. If you are able to read this, then apparently the apocalypse is not upon us. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An electoral official accused President Hugo Chavez and his allies of breaking campaign laws by using state-run media to berate rivals and praise friends ahead of this month’s legislative elections. (more)

Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out. (more)

President Hugo Chávez engaged in some sabre-rattling Sunday, threatening to cut off the sale of oil to the United States if military action is taken against Venezuela on the Colombian border. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has broken diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia, accusing the close U.S. ally of fabricating reports that Colombian rebels find safe haven inside Venezuela. (more)

Last month, Oliver Stone’s ”South of the Border” made its American debut. The documentary’s focus is Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who Stone believes has been cruelly demonized in Western media. (more)

News outlets close their foreign bureaus all the time – we’re living in a time of budget shortcuts. International coverage has been outsourced to news wires and 24-hour television coverage for far too long, and the Internet has both helped and hurt foreign correspondents. Sometimes newsrooms are able to get their stories from afar before their correspondents on the ground, but having foreign bureaus lends prestige to a publication. But apparently sometimes that kind of prestige isn’t seen as valuable. (more)