Venezuela's poor were the beneficiaries of Chavez's Bolivarian socialist revolution. But 20 years later, they have little food and medicine and few jobs, eroding support for President Maduro.

Rich In Oil, Venezuela Is Now Poor In Most Everything Else Venezuela's president has responded to a worsening economic crisis by imposing even more controls. A long-time pasta producer says prices ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Residents of the slum where Hugo Chavez’s final remains rest are expecting deeper economic pain after they helped a majority of the nation’s voters deliv… ...

For 15 years, it has been a common sight in Venezuela: a bus full of government supporters heading to a pro-government rally. So it was last week on a highway beneath the capital, Caracas, with a ...

Venezuela's poverty rate surged in 2019 to levels unmatched elsewhere in Latin America as the once-prosperous OPEC nation's hyperinflationary economic collapse continued for a sixth straight year ...

Thirty years after leaving the poverty and violence of Colombia for oil-rich Venezuela, Oscar Mina, a 56-year-old construction worker, is heading home.

Packing potatoes at his vegetable stand on a sun-baked street in Caracas's hillside Catia slum, Jesus Jimenez fondly recounts voting for late president Hugo Chavez.

Support for Mr. Maduro among Venezuela’s poorest fifth of the population has gone from roughly 40% in early 2016 to 18% in February, according to Datanalisis, a respected pollster in Venezuela ...

At least half of Venezuela's population lives in poverty. The homes that cover a steep hill in this corner of Petare once had running water. When that stopped 13 or 14 years ago, the government ...

A man revered by millions of Venezuelans as the “doctor of the poor” is one step away from sainthood. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

Venezuela will soon have its first saint, after ailing Pope Francis on Tuesday canonized a physician who died more than 100 years ago, revered for his selfless service during a previous pandemic.

Venezuela reduced its poverty levels in the first half of the year despite a global recession and a sharp drop in oil revenues in the oil dependent nation, the head of the national statistics body ...