CARACAS, Venezuela — State governor Henrique Capriles won Venezuela’s first opposition primary vote by a wide margin on Sunday, emerging as the single candidate who will try to end President Hugo Chavez’s 13 years in power. Read full article > >

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Capriles wins Venezuela’s first opposition primary vote, will challenge Chavez

Displaying youthful vigor, Henrique Capriles sprang from his campaign van in the center of this farm-belt town on a recent day, leading his followers on a sprint along narrow streets. Teenage girls mobbed him, mothers wanted to talk about better schools, and unemployed workers asked about jobs. And some even told him: You look like Hugo Chavez did in 1998, the way you energize your followers. Read full article > >

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Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez faces tough challenge in likely foe Henrique Capriles

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says one of the country’s most wanted paramilitary leaders, Martin Llanos, has been captured in Venezuela.

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Venezuela holds Colombia fugitive

After a year of cancer treatment and facing a tough re-election campaign, President Hugo Chávez is trying to show he is still the dominant figure in Venezuelan politics.

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The US rejects as “horrific” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s musings about whether the US might be giving Latin American leaders cancer.

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US rejects Chavez cancer comments

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez asks whether the US is giving Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina’s president is diagnosed with the disease.

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Chavez muses on ‘US cancer plot’

Venezuela experienced a record number of murders this year – 53 a day on average – the highest in South America, a campaign group says.

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Venezuela ‘highest murder rate’

Venezuela’s government offers local women free removal of French-made breast implants at the centre of a global health scare.

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Venezuela covers implant removal

NEW YORK – It’s actually a boring job for the most part, being Major League Baseball’s vice president for security. A lot of chasing after counterfeiters and licensing violators. A lot of crafting of memos and standardizing of procedure across all 30 teams. But for dramatic purposes, let’s imagine the job is always like it was the night of Nov. 9, when Bill Bordley, on the job for just 3½ weeks, got a call telling him that a Washington Nationals player, catcher Wilson Ramos , had been kidnapped at gunpoint in Venezuela . Read full article > >

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MLB’s new security chief understands danger — and baseball

Venezuela’s President Chavez hosts a summit creating a new regional bloc, bringing together 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries without the US or Canada.

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Hugo Chavez hosts summit minus US

Venezuelan forces arrest Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, alias Valenciano, accused of leading a key drug trafficking gang in Colombia.

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Venezuela arrests top ‘drug boss’

On Tuesday, Wilson Ramos pulled on his Aragua Tigers uniform in Maracay, Venezuela, and took batting practice, a mundane act that had taken on new significance. During the lowest points of his kidnapping ordeal — the time he spent in captivity between his abduction the night of Nov. 9 and rescue 51 hours later — Ramos wondered if he would ever play baseball again. Read full article > >

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This post has been updated. Read more on the complaints from On Faith . Benetton returns to its controversial marketing roots with a new campaign that features photoshopped images of President Obama and other world leaders engaging in a kiss. In two separate ads, Obama is made to appear as if he is kissing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and Chinese President Hu Jintao. Read full article > >

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Major league catcher Wilson Ramos has been “found alive,” two days after he was reported kidnapped by gunmen, Venezuelan state media reported.

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Baseball player Wilson Ramos, who plays for the US Major League Washington Nationals, is freed in Venezuela, two days ago after being kidnapped.

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