Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has spent close to $33 billion to influence the regional politics of Latin America, helping to finance the economies of nations such as Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, a former U.S. intelligence official has testified before the U.S. Congress.
The Venezuelan government also provided resources to Colombia’s FARC guerrillas, the Basque separatist [...]

Around a hundred people turned up at the Spanish embassy in Caracas today with banners criticizing Spanish authorities and presented a document supporting Batasuna and expressing solidarity “with the towns that fight”. The demonstrators launched firecrackers and burnt two dolls with the effigy of the King of Spain and the ex-president of the Government Jose [...]