Hugo Chavez

Post-Chavez, Miami's Venezuelan Artists Ponder the Future

Venezuelans Celebrate in Doral Following Death of Hugo Chavez

Venezuelans partied late into the night in Doral following yesterday's announcement that Hugo Chávez had died from cancer. Restaurant El Arepazo II, on the corner of NW 39th Street and 79th Avenue, was swarmed with more than 300 people waving flags, eating arepas, and sipping Polar.But nearly all t ... More >>

Radio Mambi's Armando Perez Roura Calls Hugo Chavez a Dead Trojan Horse

As hundreds of Venezuelans converged in Doral to celebrate the passing of the Bolivarian revolutionary Hugo Chávez, Miami's number one Cuban exile radio provocateur, Armando Pérez Roura, spent yesterday afternoon proselytizing how Chávez's death was a major blow to the Cuban government. ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Is Dead

After months of battling a recurring bout of cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has died. His vice president, Nicolas Maduro, announced the news on Venezuelan television about a half-hour ago, at 4:30 p.m., CNN reports.His death is likely to lead to political turmoil in a nation he's dominate ... More >>

Chavez Endorsement, Che Picture Flap Used Against Obama In New Spanish Ads

In the desperate fight to snag Hispanic voters in Miami-Dade -- a battle that could easily swing Florida, and thus the presidency -- Romney's campaign has decided to pull out the oldest trick in the GOP handbook: Tying Obama to Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.It's ridiculous, of course, bu ... More >>

Florida Man Would Like His Lock Of Simon Bolivar's Hair Back, Sues Venezuela

In Miami's federal courthouse downtown, thousands of lawsuits are filed every day over every conceivable kind of property: houses, boats, cars, drug money, jewelry, fine art. It's a fair bet, though, that a suit filed two weeks ago is a first: A demand that the Venezuelan government give a lock of S ... More >>

Miami Venezuelans Chartering Planes and Buses to Exercise Their Right to Vote Against Hugo Chavez

When Venezuela closed its consulate in Miami, it left the country's largest group of foreign-based voters without a convenient polling place. In order to vote in the upcoming October 7 election, those that live in Miami would have to travel to another consulate. Which isn't easy, considering the nea ... More >>

Fidel Castro Is Not Senile, Still "Working Hard," His Son Says

Nary a single "crush the American oligarchy!" has been heard from Fidel Castro since June, when el jefe's regular columns began devolving into the kind of bizarre, haiku-like rants found only in assisted living facility newsletters or Dadaist art collectives.But any fears that the Bearded One has go ... More >>

Obama Says Hugo Chavez Doesn't Present Serious National Security Concern; Rubio and Republicans Jump to Attack

América TeVe, the little Spanish-language, Hialeah Gardens-based scored a big interview with President Barack Obama, and it's causing a major controversy.Obama told reporter Oscar Haza that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has not posed a "serious national security impact" to America in the past fe ... More >>

Venezuelan Citizens in Miami Must Travel to New Orleans to Vote

It seems as if Hugo Chávez is going to be a vindictive, democracy-skewering bastard right down to the very end.South Florida may have the largest concentration of Venezuelan exiles in the entire world, but Chávez's government isn't going to make it easy for them to vote in the next Venezuelan ... More >>

Venezuelan Exiles Throw Arepa in Chavez's Eye with Spinning Simon Bolivar Statue in Doral

This Simon Bolivar statue in Caracas will soon have a rival in Doral​Venezuelan exiles announced today that they are installing a statue of their country's founding father, Simon Bolivar, in front of the Arepazo restaurant in Doral.The life-size, revolvable statue is intended as an arepa in the ey ... More >>

Hugo Chávez Annouces Another Run for President, Accuses Globovisión Boss Guillermo Zuloaga of $100 Million Plot to Kill Him

Hugo could be in office long after we are all dead...​Brace yourself. This news is as newsy and shocking as it gets: Hugo Chávez is running for president... again.The Venezuelan comandante has been in office for 12 years and has said he plans to stay there -- elections willing -- for another deca ... More >>

Future Perfect

Mad Scientist Leo Mascheroni Caught Trying To Sell Nuclear Bomb To Venezuela

Does this look like a man who should have a nuclear bomb?​P. Leonardo Mascheroni had a simple dream: earning billions of dollars in government funding to build a gigantic laser beam that would create stable nuclear fusion and limitless, free energy for the world. So simple! But the government woul ... More >>

Latin American politicians say the craziest things

Hugo Chavez Doubts Whether 9/11 or Moon Landing Ever Happened

​Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hit new levels of ego-infused insanity last month when he had the bones of South American hero Simon Bolivar dug up to prove some weird conspiracy theory, and then live tweeted about crying over the remains. Inspired by the insanity, Christopher Hitchens ... More >>

Crying Hugo Chavez Exhumes 19th-Century Corpse to Prove Conspiracy Theory

​Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez seems to be acting absolutely insane. At least more than usual. He took to Twitter to let the world know he cried tears of joy after seeing the 180-year-old remains of South American hero Simón Bolívar. Chávez had the corpse exhumed with the hopes of ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Toilet Paper Is a Hot Seller on Calle Ocho

​Calle Ocho mainstay Sentir Cubano has long sold Fidel Castro toilet paper, but Fidel now has a new friend to hang out with while rotting away in a septic tank: Hugo Chávez. Yes, the store now sells toilet paper that features that oh-so-charming mug of Hugo. Dubbed "The XXI Century Socialism," af ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Accuses "Gringo Government" of Harboring Luis Posada Carriles

Chavez's Twitter Icon​Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is picking a fight with America in the most mature of way: Tweets complete with derogatory slang and swears. Such a refined statesman that Chavez is."The gringo government accuses us of anything and everything, but today marks 5 years since th ... More >>

Hugo Chavez's Twitter Has a Staff of 200

​Since joining Twitter earlier this month, Venezuela's controversial president Hugo Chavez has since become the most popular user of the service in the country. With 282,042 followers now, he's since assigned a team of 200 government aids to reply to the "@" messages he receives.Yes, 200 peop ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Accuses U.S. Plane of "Electronic Warfare," Hints at Aggression with Colombia

​Venezuela and Colombia are starting to become the Ned Flandars and Homer Simpson of Latin America: two neighbors with very different world views that are really starting to hate each other.Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez has even implied that if Juan Manuel Santos, the chosen successor of curre ... More >>

Venezuela Murder Rate Has Quadrupled Under Hugo Chávez

One person is murdered every two hours in Venezuela, according to new statistics released by the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Violence.The murder rate in the South American country has more than quadrupled since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999. There were 54 homicides per 100,000 people ... More >>

Hugo Chávez Calls Twitter a Tool of Terrorism

Socialist crank Hugo Chávez doesn't much care for communication he can't control, so it was only a matter of time before he put the kibosh on Twitter in Venezuela.Last week, the tag #FreeVenezuela became a trending topic thanks to citizens protesting Chávez's crackdown on press freedom and ca ... More >>

Parks & Recreation Mines Comedy Gold out of Hugo Chavez's Ego

​Word on the street -- well, if the street you happen to be on is Calle Ocho -- is that Hollywood is full of a bunch of Hugo Chávez-loving socialists. Well, maybe you didn't see last night's Parks & Recreation on NBC, and judging from the ratings, we guess you probably didn't, which is a sham ... More >>

Hugo Chavez is in a Silent Cat Fight with Miss Universe

​Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loves celebrities. He was Oliver Stone's date to the Venice International Film Festival, could probably convince Sean Penn to agree to be held captive and perform a stage rendition of his parts in Simple Jack I Am Sam, and is perhaps the only known person on the p ... More >>

South America's Biggest Movie Star, Hugo Chávez, Accuses Israel of Genocide

​Oliver Stone predicts he'll have a hard time finding distribution for his latest documentary, South of the Border, a cinematic love letter to Venezuela's controversial president, Hugo Chávez.   "This is a bigger issue than Mr. Chávez and South America," Stone tells Reuters. "Not only ... More >>

Hugo Chávez Greeted as Movie Star in Italy

 The last thing the world needs is Hugo Chávez's ego to get even bigger. Unfortunately, Venezuala's president might have been the biggest diva to walk the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival this past weekend. From the Telegraph:Mr. Chavez, who was accompanied by 50 bodyguard ... More >>

Hugo Chávez Bans Coke Zero in Venezuela

Hugo Chávez hates America, and now he's banning a product close to our hearts: Coke Zero.  A weird-tasting, chemical-laden, no-calorie substitute for an iconic soft drink we consume in order to feel a bit "healthier" is pretty much as good a symbol for modern America as anything. "The product sho ... More >>

Message to Andres Oppenheimer: Work Harder!

OK, now this is funny. In a Herald correction this morning, the newspaper admitted the first paragraph of Andres Oppeneheimer's column "was inadvertently picked up from a previous column."What they actually "picked up" was the headline of the column from three days before: "One sure bet: Venezuela' ... More >>

Memo from Caracas: Venezuelan Jews, Democracy Are In Trouble

It was a damn good weekend for the vanguard of the Bolivarian Revolution, Fidel Castro's BFF Hugo Chavez.courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAbout 54 percent of Venezuelans on Sunday voted to remove term limits so that Chavez can run again for president in 2012 -- and presumably well beyond, if Castro is real ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Stinks, but Rafael Correa...Not

Today's Hugo Chavez's tenth anniverary in power. He's messed with everybody's brains since taking the oath of office -- and he has brought a voice to a lotta poor Venezuelans, many of whom have come to Miami. But this caudillo ain't slick. He's lucky. Oil revenues have soared to the point where he's ... More >>

News Roundup

The School Board may eliminate up to 440 jobs. [CBS4] Drug use and binge drinking is down among Florida teens overall, but prescription drug abuse is up. [CBS4] Sen. Nelson has some tough love for the Auto Industry. He says a loan may be necessary, but only if they pay it back and become super gree ... More >>

Jury In "The Suitcase Trial" Can't Reach A Verdict

Obama Manages To Have A Completely Normal Interview With Radio Caracol

Chavez Takes a Page from 1984

The Reporter and the Tranny

He kissed her, um, him, and that was only the beginning.

Weekly News Wrap - Chavez, Imus, Iran, the CIA and more

Chávez bid deflated, win for democracy?

Haven and Hell

As Chávez grabs more power, three Venezuelans who fled death threats find their struggles don't end with asylum.

Terrorists Weigh in on Supermodel Visit

War on Hugo Chávez

An outlaw and former spook takes on the Venezuelan dictator

Chavéz Chat Fest

A Clown, Dracula, or a lot of Crapula?

The Fugitive

Patricia Poleo, a Venezuelan journalist and political activist, is accused of murder. She's in exile in Miami.

Venezuelans Rock the Vote

BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE RADIO PERSONALITY

Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero

All Around the Neighborhood

A quick look at our amigos from Toronto to Tierra del Fuego

BEST PLACE FOR A FIRST DATE

Club Tropigala

Fontainebleau Hilton

How to Organize a Peace Protest in Little Havana

First, get unified; next, give out food

Miami in the Meantime

With the future of their country in flux, Venezuelans are setting up shop, and opposing camps, in Florida