Posters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hang over a street in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. The last time he ran for re-election, Chavez won comfortably ...

CARACAS, Venezuela—It's Friday night, ... and Brazil might make splashier headlines, but Venezuela has quietly eclipsed both its neighbors in levels of violent street crime.

Venezuela's capital registered 3,218 homicides during the first 10 months of 2012, putting it on pace to surpass last year's total and indicating that clashes between street gangs remain one of the ...

Graffiti appeared, suggesting that the Bratton Group was composed of CIA agents and telling us to go home. Pro-Chávez radicals in the Metropolitan Police sought to divide the force along political ...

- Crime and a grinding economic crisis have turned the traditionally vibrant, teeming streets of Caracas into no man's land once the sun goes down.Major thoroughfares like the Francisco Fajardo ...

Standing across the street from a bombed-out shell of a police station in the La Dolorita... Crime runs amok in Caracas' slums SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Like a beaver dam of urban detritus, the piles of tires, old mattresses and heavy steel grates in Venezuela's streets have sparked some of the most violent episodes of this ...

Venezuelan police have arrested an alleged accomplice in the murder of a TikTok influencer who was killed during a livestream ...

President Nicolas Maduro swears in the combat forces during a pro-government rally on January 7, 2025 in Caracas, Venezuela. Jesus Vargas/Getty Images CNN — ...

UN accuses Venezuela of crimes against humanity in post-election violence. In the weeks since the violent crackdown, thousands are fleeing their country.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Crime and a grinding economic crisis have turned the traditionally vibrant, teeming streets of Caracas into no man's land once the sun goes down. Major ...