Venezuelans may have to wait to sift through the rubble of the Chavez regime before they get a clear explanation for Mr. Chavez's recent reckless decisions. In the meantime, regardless of whether Mr. Chavez knows he is dying sooner or hopes he is dying later, it is apparent that he doesn't give a damn about the harm he is doing to the Venezuelan people or the mess he will leave behind.

Under the auspices of his Bolivarian revolution, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has drastically undermined the country’s democratic institutions, concentrated power in his hands, and engaged in costly “petrodollar” diplomacy as poverty and insecurity have grown at home. Although Chávez’s recent speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in October...

Bernard Álvarez, the mouthpiece for Hugo Chávez, attacks the new Republican leadership of the House Foreign Affairs Committee while offering no defense of his government's troubling record.

Bipartisan oversight in the new Congress should develop a sensible policy toward Latin America that addresses Mexico's antidrug campaign, Hugo Chávez's hostile regime, free trade with Colombia, and relations with Brazil and Cuba.

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez is cementing strategic relations with China; the United States can no longer afford to practice wishful thinking but must recognize the threat growing in Venezuela.

The delay in processingthe referendum signatures pertaining to Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is understandable: a fateful step in the nation's future hinges upon the outcome.

The United States must confront the grave threat Hugo Chávez poses.

Discusses the future of Venezuela and its president, Hugh Chávez.