SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela-- Legions of national guardsmen and military helicopters began descending on a western Venezuela state Wednesday where an outbreak of looting and political violence left ...

Fernanda Carvalho, 53, told the AFP news agency virtually all the food was stolen from her bakery in San Cristobal. “It felt like my world was falling in.

The state of Tachira was the birthplace of last year's protests A Venezuelan teenager, Kluiver Roa Nunez, has been killed in the western city of San Cristobal in a protest over the worsening ...

As the crisis in Venezuela continues, attention is turning to events in San Cristobal, the city that started the protests, says the BBC's Arturo Wallace.