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Widespread gunfire was heard as the army moved in to free the president, who was there for treatment after being attacked by police with tear gas.

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

Greta discusses the violence and the suppression of free press in Mexico. ‘The drug cartels are on the way to taking over Mexico’ says John Bolton.

Chavez’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) still won a majority of seats in Sunday’s poll, but will now be unable to pass major legislation unaided.

Santos says ‘no quarter’ as Colombian security forces say they have killed at least 22 Farc rebels in fighting near the Ecuadorean border.

Thousands of Colombian peasants have crossed into this Ecuadorean jungle for years to escape what the U.S. State Department describes as a low-intensity guerrilla war involving mostly political combatants.

Presented by President Hugo Chávez as an instrument to make shopping for groceries easier, the “Good Life Card” is making various segments of the population wary because they see it as a furtive attempt to introduce a rationing card similar to the one in Cuba.

Early in his reign, Chazvez fomented class hatred by justifying theft so long as it was carried out by the poor. Sound familiar? Hugo Chavez, has made murder a means of extending his control and Caracas the murder capitol of the world.

Colombian police are investigating the killings of three youths whose names appeared on hitlists published on the social networking site Facebook.

Monitoring group reports country suffered more than 16,000 homicides last year. Far from containing the violence, police increasingly find themselves targeted by criminals.