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.

Venezuela's poor will feel a loss: Other views. USATODAY ... Ruling Venezuela for 14 years, Chavez's unique combination of populism, authoritarianism, ...

Land and property seizutres are nothing new in Venezuela, where desperate poverty, an acute shortage of affordable housing and a lingering sense of entitlement to a share of the country’s ...

Poverty in Venezuela has fallen to 50.5% amid the South American country's economic recovery, though income inequality continued to widen, according to a study by the National Poll of Living ...

In Caracas, the rich and poor are suddenly less divided. For most of Venezuela’s two-decade socialist experiment, the city’s wealthier, whiter east has been the hotbed of anti-government ...

A woman prays close to a painting of Venezuelan popular saint, Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez at the street where he died in a car accident in 1919, in La Pastora neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela ...

So it seems worthwhile to point out that in the long run, Hugo Chavez was probably bad for the poor of Venezuela; that he would have already been very bad for the poor of Venezuela if he had not ...

2002-09-06 04:00:00 PDT Caracas, Venezuela-- On a recent Saturday afternoon, Omar Leon should have been helping his softball team reach the championships. Instead, he sat in the dirt, cutting ...

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, ...

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 ...

El Dorado arose as a military fort as Britain and Venezuela squared off in 1895 over the mineral- and oil-rich region of Essequibo now at the center of an increasingly heated territorial dispute ...

Here's why Venezuela is so economically poor despite having so much oil. Stock footage is acquired from www.storyblocks.com . Some videos provided by Hiurich G. on ...