Frank Bajak

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Venezuelan student protesters seek to woo poor

Frank Bajak · March 19, 2014 3:03 pm

Demonstrators take cover from teargas fired by the police during clashes in an anti-government protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 10, 2014. The Venezuelan government and opposition appear to have reached a stalemate, in which street protests continue almost daily while the opposition sits out a peace process it calls farcical. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)

Venezuela unrest plays out daily in upscale area

Frank Bajak · March 11, 2014 12:46 pm

Biden says Venezuela ‘concocting’ bogus stories

Frank Bajak · March 9, 2014 9:54 pm

A student offers a small bouquet of flowers to police officers during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. Students are protesting the Wednesday killings of two university students who were shot in different incidents following an anti-government protest that demanded the release of student protesters who had been arrested in various parts of the country.(AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)

Twitter reports image blocking in Venezuela

Frank Bajak · February 15, 2014 3:58 am

New app helping Venezuelans find scarce items

Frank Bajak · June 9, 2013 8:46 pm

This undated family photo released Thursday, April 25, 2013, shows Timothy Tracy inside of a vehicle in Venezuela. The 35-year-old filmmaker from California was arrested Wednesday, by Venezuelan authorities who are accusing him of fomenting post election violence on behalf of the U.S. government. Friends and family told The Associated Press said that he had been in Venezuela since last year making a documentary about the confrontation between the opposition and a socialist government that is struggling to maintain its once-high popularity after the death of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez. (AP Photo/Family courtesy photo)

US man detained in Venezuelan post-vote crackdown

Michael Weissenstein, Frank Bajak · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

Opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles talks to journalists in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 15, 2013. Venezuela's government-friendly electoral council indicated Monday it would quickly certify the presidential victory of Hugo Chavez' hand-picked successor Nicolas Maduro, apparently ignoring opposition demands for a recount in Sunday's tight race. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Maduro certified as election winner amid protests

Vivian Sequera, Frank Bajak · April 16, 2013 4:00 am

Venezuela's interim President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters as he leaves a polling station after voting in the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez's foreign minister and vice president, is running against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Recount challenge in badly polarized Venezuela

Vivian Sequera, Frank Bajak · April 15, 2013 4:00 am

Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro, second from right, links arms with Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, as they arrive to the Military Hospital where President Hugo Chavez died in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The coffin containing Chavez's body is being taken from the hospital to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral on Friday. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Even after death, Chavez gets choice of successor

Fabiola Sanchez, Frank Bajak · March 6, 2013 12:00 am

A poster of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is seen through a cross-shaped window, from inside the military hospital's chapel, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. A brief statement read on national television by Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas late Monday carried the sobering news about the charismatic 58-year-old leader's deteriorating health. Villegas said Chavez is suffering from "a new, severe infection." The state news agency identified it as respiratory. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s Chavez dies, officials call for unity

Fabiola Sanchez, Frank Bajak · March 5, 2013 5:00 am

Hugo Chavez, fiery Venezuelan leader, dies at 58

Frank Bajak · March 5, 2013 5:00 am

A woman holds a picture of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during an event commemorating the violent street protests of 1989 known as the "Caracazo," in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The wave of the 1989 violent protests, seen by the Chavez government as a "popular uprising," was in response to the economic measures imposed by then President Carlos Andres Perez. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Many Venezuelans believe in Chavez recovery

Frank Bajak · February 28, 2013 5:00 am