Russian ships arrive in Venezuela for joint military exercises. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive to Venezuela, Cuba and some other countries of Latin America next week.

Months after the infamous “Why don’t you shut up?” incident Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez offered to hug Spain’s King Juan Carlos if they meet again. “I'd like to give the king a hug, but you know, Juan Carlos, that I am not going to shut up,” said Chavez yesterday in anticipation of his tour of Europe.

President Hugo Chavez crashed to an unprecedented vote defeat on Monday as Venezuelans rejected his bid to run for reelection indefinitely and accelerate his socialist revolution in the OPEC nation.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to stop oil exports to the US if violence he claims it is plotting breaks out after a hotly contested weekend referendum aimed at expanding his powers.

Venezuela's fiery leader Hugo Chavez is barrelling towards a cliffhanger vote on Sunday; a referendum on sweeping constitutional changes - including measures to bolster his power - that has fractured the electorate into two hostile camps.

The angry "Why don't you shut up?" that King Juan Carlos I of Spain uttered against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a week ago on Saturday has apparently reached a cult status in Spain and Venezuela.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that Spanish King Juan Carlos should apologize to Venezuela and Latin America for telling him to shut up, Spain's Europa Press reported on Wednesday.

During a summit of the Latin American nations in Chile on Saturday, November 10, the King of Spain, Juan Carlos, told the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez to "shut up." The remarks quickly put an end to the meeting.

On Wednesday, November 7, 2007, tens of thousands of Venezuelans participated in a march in Caracas to protest President Hugo Chávez's efforts to change the Constitution of Venezuela.

A group of students who had participated in the march were fired upon by masked gunmen as they returned to their university campus in Caracas. "If we do not take action now, we will be condemned to live without democracy under a communist dictator," said a flyer distributed to students.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Uruguay as part of a regional tour aimed at helping his country's bid for admission to the South American trade bloc Mercosur.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will soon submit to the parliament a draft law abolishing presidential term limits.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez broke ground Monday on a joint petrochemical complex south of Tehran, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.