CARACAS (Reuters) - The recent wave of lootings and food riots in crisis-hit ... according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, a local monitoring group. Venezuela's political opposition ...

Earlier this week, Chavez nationalized a rice mill owned by giant U.S. food company ... Cola FEMSA de Venezuela SA to turn the area in the country's capital over to the local community within ...

Shoppers seeking scarce consumer staples including milk, rice and flour broke into a supermarket warehouse on Friday morning, leading businesses in the area to shut their doors, local newspaper ...