With the official start of campaigns this week, they were deafening during a massive rally Saturday in the western Venezuelan state of Barinas, the home state of the late fiery President Hugo Chávez.

Supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez rally in Caracas Thursday ahead of Sunday's elections. Supporters are wearing red, the color of the ruling Socialist party. Chávez is in a tight ...

A Venezuelan demonstrator with a tape over her mouth attends a rally against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Tegucigalpa September 4, A hundreds-strong crowd in Caracas gathered at noon for a ...

came at a counter-rally to marches protesting the hardline tactics of President Hugo Chavez. Friday's marches against Chavez were in part to protest the government's closure of 32 radio stations ...

Over dessert, the conversation turned to the squatters who with the encouragement of President Hugo Chávez's leftist ... and the guests worried that pro-Chávez rallies would, as in years past ...

On paper, Sunday's vote ought to be a straightforward victory for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez over his ... "People are pressed into marching at Chavez rallies," she says.