enriching a moneyed elite even as the poor cling to life in hillside shanty towns like the Petare slum above Caracas, home to half a million people. Despite gaping inequality, however, Venezuela ...

In a defiant tweet early on Saturday he vowed to battle the "brutal aggression against our people", adding: "We will never surrender." In pictures: Lights go out on Venezuela Venezuela crisis in ...

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals ...