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Venezuela's Congress will discuss legislation this week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants to try to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula, said a lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party.Legislator Odalis Monzon said the proposal would "prohibit all types of baby bottles" as a way to improve children's health."We want to increase the love (between mother and child) because this has been lost as a result of these transnational companies selling formula," Monzon said on state television on Thursday.She said the Law for the Promotion and Support for Breast-Feeding, passed in 2007, did not establish any sanctions for using formula. However, she did not say what the sanctions might be if the proposed change to prohibit bottle feeding is passed by Congress, where the Socialist Party has a majority.Monzon said, however, that exceptions would be allowed, such as in the case of the death of a mother, or for women with limited breast milk production, as determined...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Friday that he will return to Cuba to begin a new phase of cancer treatment that will include chemotherapy.Chavez said he ...
Phil Keating reports from Miami, Florida
President Hugo Chávez reign over Venezuela extends to 20 years, as the socialist narrowly beats his youthful rival.
Adam Housley reports from Los Angeles
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatens to halt oil sales to US if attacked by Colombia .
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked Pope Francis to canonize a doctor who tended to the poor in Caracas and is considered a saint already by many Venezuela...
Venezuelan authorities have granted conditional freedom to a judge who has been detained since 2009 and whose cause has been taken up by opposition leaders and inter...
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Some in anguish, some in fear, Venezuelans raced for home on Tuesday after the government announced the death of President Hugo Chavez, the firebrand socialist who l...
President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a ...
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is scheduled to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on June 17.It would be Maduro's first meeting with the new pope, who has called...
Concern about Venezuela President Hugo Chavez's health grew Friday amid reports the cancer-stricken leader will seek emergency medical care in Brazil , a day after t...