San Pedro Sula’s murder rate was 111 per 100,000, putting it at No. 2 in 2015, while the third ranked city was San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, with 109.

So when the chance came to visit Venezuela’s capital — at the invitation of Caraqueños I’d befriended in New York — I jumped. But many American travelers might be wary of visiting the city.

Caracas isn't ranked much higher than Damascus, the capital city of Syria, which has suffered a brutal civil war since 2011. Damascus got a score of 30.7, which made it rank very last of all the ...

Venezuela’s gross domestic product is expected to lose another 10 percent this year after shrinking by more than two thirds since 2013, the largest decline in modern history outside a war zone ...

Venezuela's Capital Is Running Out of Water as Hospitals Forced to Cancel Operations. Published Aug 15, ... The city sits in a valley almost 3,000 feet above sea level, ...

Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states. President Nicolas Maduro's government blamed the outage, which began about 4:50 a.m., on "electrical ...

Twin Blasts In Venezuela Capital. By Jarrett Murphy. February 10, 2003 / 9:57 AM EST / CBS ... injuring four people and raising tensions in a city still recovering from an anti-government strike. ...

Meet the beloved macaws of Venezuela’s capital. Caracas is home to hundreds of the brightly colored parrots, which have become collective mascots of the city.

By 1950, Zulia state – with Maracaibo as it capital – accounted for more than half of Venezuela’s GDP. Fuelled by wealthy donors, its cultural life thrived.