CARACAS, Venezuela — The president of Venezuela wants state banks to grant interest-free loans to poor people looking to start small businesses. “We want to give incentives. . . . Those who ...

Venezuela's poor were the beneficiaries of Chavez's Bolivarian socialist revolution. But 20 years later, they have little food and medicine and few jobs, eroding support for President Maduro.

Venezuela’s Poor Rebel, Roiling Maduro’s Socialist Strongholds. In western Caracas, fury erupts when food program falters ‘People protest when there are no other options.

Getting safe water a struggle for many of Venezuela’s poor. ... Morao, 66, and five other people live off her son’s $180 monthly income from a kitchen helper job in a sushi restaurant.

They live in a town named after the mythical City of Gold and untold riches -- but most of them are poor. Merchants use scales to carefully weigh the flecks people guard in plastic pill bottles or ...

Hernández, born on Oct. 26, 1864, in the western Venezuela town of Isnotu, never married and graduated as a doctor in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, in 1888.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Everyone knows Franklin Cáceres in his neighborhood on the far east side of Venezuela's capital. A roadside vendor directs a visitor downhill, past a curve and to the left.

A man revered by millions as the “doctor of the poor” will be the first saint from Venezuela after Pope Francis approved a decree Tuesday. A date for the canonization of Dr. José Gregorio ...

Unlike Venezuela's battered currency, ... but most of them are poor. ... and 217 people were killed in the four years to 2020 in clashes between rival criminal gangs.

“One day at the mine you might find nothing; there are lucky people who have gotten up to a kilo (2.2 pounds), but… I haven’t had that kind of blessing. I’ve only gotten a little bit ...