The head of Los Tupamaros said there would be "bullets." Oct. 6, 2012— -- CARACAS-- The countdown to the Venezuelan elections has officially begun. With less than 24 hours to go, the tension ...

The police arrested the head of the Tupamaros party, José Pinto, on unproved murder charges, harassed the leaders the Communist Party and briefly detained a veteran leftist, Rafael Uzcátegui, 73 ...

Venezuela Venezuela today is a chaotic authoritarian state. But from the 1960s through the 1980s, it had a stable two-party democracy and oil-fueled prosperity.