Venezuela Economic Crisis

An unruly 9-year-old bolted from his classroom, prompting a volunteer teacher to chase him down the hall. He would normally be hauled straight to Romina Sciaca's office. But the guidance counselor was gone - part of a wave of staffers to flee Aquiles Nazoa Elementary School.

Venezuela on Tuesday became the first country to launch its own version of Bitcoin, a move President Nicolas Maduro celebrated.

Desperate Venezuelans looted delivery trucks and clashed with police as a botched plan to introduce new banknotes left people without cash -- the latest shortage in a spiralling economic crisis.

Struggling to feed herself and her seven children, Venezuelan mother Zulay Pulgar asked a neighbor in October to take over care of her six-year-old daughter, a victim of a pummeling economic crisis.

International concerns are mounting over the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, where the military today was holding a second day of exercises ordered by embattled President Nicolas Maduro.

India's second-largest drugmaker, Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd , reported a much lower-than-expected quarterly profit due to a write-off related to Venezuela's economic crisis which has damaged its business there.

A teenager was fatally shot at an anti-government protest in the western city of San Cristobal on Tuesday, state officials said, exacerbating tensions in Venezuela amid an economic crisis and crackdown on the political opposition.

As Venezuela's economic crisis deepens, President Nicolas Maduro has stepped up accusations of plots against his leftist government, lashing out most recently at US Vice President Joe Biden.

Thousands of opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro marched in Caracas on Saturday to denounce the socialist government for a deepening economic crisis marked by widespread shortages and galloping inflation.

Thousands of opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro marched in Caracas on Saturday to denounce the socialist government for a deepening economic crisis marked by widespread shortages and galloping inflation.

Supporters of Venezuela's former president Hugo Chavez celebrated what would have been his 60th birthday on Monday with fireworks, a gun salute -- and the unveiling of a computer font based on the late leader's handwriting. The full-day festivities began shortly after midnight, when President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's hand-picked successor, sang Ha...

Former Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi, who struggled to tame an economic crisis sparked by plunging oil prices in the late 1980s and then saw his reputation tarnished by allegations of corruption after leaving office, has died at age 89.

An unruly 9-year-old bolted from his classroom, prompting a volunteer teacher to chase him down the hall. He would normally be hauled straight to Romina Sciaca's office. But the guidance counselor was gone - part of a wave of staffers to flee Aquiles Nazoa Elementary School.

Venezuela on Tuesday became the first country to launch its own version of Bitcoin, a move President Nicolas Maduro celebrated.

Desperate Venezuelans looted delivery trucks and clashed with police as a botched plan to introduce new banknotes left people without cash -- the latest shortage in a spiralling economic crisis.

Struggling to feed herself and her seven children, Venezuelan mother Zulay Pulgar asked a neighbor in October to take over care of her six-year-old daughter, a victim of a pummeling economic crisis.

International concerns are mounting over the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, where the military today was holding a second day of exercises ordered by embattled President Nicolas Maduro.

India's second-largest drugmaker, Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd , reported a much lower-than-expected quarterly profit due to a write-off related to Venezuela's economic crisis which has damaged its business there.

A teenager was fatally shot at an anti-government protest in the western city of San Cristobal on Tuesday, state officials said, exacerbating tensions in Venezuela amid an economic crisis and crackdown on the political opposition.

As Venezuela's economic crisis deepens, President Nicolas Maduro has stepped up accusations of plots against his leftist government, lashing out most recently at US Vice President Joe Biden.

Thousands of opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro marched in Caracas on Saturday to denounce the socialist government for a deepening economic crisis marked by widespread shortages and galloping inflation.

Thousands of opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro marched in Caracas on Saturday to denounce the socialist government for a deepening economic crisis marked by widespread shortages and galloping inflation.

Supporters of Venezuela's former president Hugo Chavez celebrated what would have been his 60th birthday on Monday with fireworks, a gun salute -- and the unveiling of a computer font based on the late leader's handwriting. The full-day festivities began shortly after midnight, when President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's hand-picked successor, sang Ha...

Former Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi, who struggled to tame an economic crisis sparked by plunging oil prices in the late 1980s and then saw his reputation tarnished by allegations of corruption after leaving office, has died at age 89.