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.

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 ...

They live in a town named after the mythical City of Gold and untold riches -- but most of them are poor. Merchants use scales to carefully ... no life - El Dorado arose as a military fort as Britain ...

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

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 ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The president of Venezuela wants state banks to grant interest-free loans to poor people looking to start small businesses. “We want to give incentives. . . . Those who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Venezuela is the answer to what would happen if an economically illiterate drug cartel took over a country. ... That's how its government cut poverty almost 30 percent its first 12 years in power.

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, ...

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 ...