Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denied that the government plans to impose controls on the Internet, saying Sunday that his administration aims to increase Web access rather than limit it. Earlier this month, Chavez sparked concerns of a possible crackdown on Web sites critical of his ...

Press freedoms in countries throughout the Western Hemisphere are facing serious threats from authoritarian governments, especially in Venezuela and communist-led Cuba, a group representing news media from across the Americas warned Sunday. Alejandro Aguirre, president of the Inter American Press Association, singled out Cuba as the ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela announced on Sunday 24-hour power cutoffs for dozens of companies that have failed to reduce usage in the first punitive measures of a nationwide drive to save energy amid an electricity crisis. Restaurants, liquor stores, hotels, gyms, car dealerships and a yacht club were on the list of 80 firms in the capital Caracas due to have ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez denied on Sunday that he planned to censor or limit the Internet in Venezuela, saying on the contrary Web use had shot up more than nine fold during his decade in power. The South American leftist leader's calls a week ago for greater controls on the Internet brought an outcry from opposition and freedom ...