An election re-run to decide the governor of Venezuela's Barinas state, the birthplace of former President Hugo Chavez and stronghold of the country's ruling party, began at 6 a.m. (1000 GMT) on ...

Barinas state is Chavez country. President Hugo Chavez was born here, his father has governed it for 10 years, and now his brother is seeking the governor's job. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

BARINAS (Reuters) -A Venezuelan opposition candidate on Sunday won an election for governor of Barinas state, the birth place of the late former leader Hugo Chavez, bringing an end to 22 years of ...

In the state of Barinas (Venezuela), inmates of the INJUBA prison rioted and actually took control of part of the territory. This is reported by the Prison Monitoring Center (Observatorio Venezolano ...