Telegraph: Chavez family wealth exposed

Topped with razor-wire that runs along a 10ft-high wall, uninvited visitors are not welcome at the Chavez family mansion in an upmarket suburb of the town of Barinas, where Venezuela’s late president was born in a mud-floored house 59 years ago. But

Telegraph: Mother of 7 murdered sons says time for change

If it wasn’t for the picture hanging on the wall of her crudely constructed slum-house in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, the story of how one mother lost all seven of her sons to violent crime might have been dismissed as

The Telegraph: Pope Francis’ run-in with Benedict XVI

In 2005, then Pope Benedict, while quoting from an obscure medieval text, declared that the Prophet Mohammed, founder of the Islamic faith, was “evil and inhuman”, enraging the Muslim population and causing attacks on churches throughout the world before an

The Telegraph: Pope Francis: Saviour or Traitor?

While he was seen as an archbishop of the people, who would eat alongside the poor in Buenos Aires’ biggest slum, accusations that he colluded in the human rights abuses of the 1976-1983 military junta taint his reputation. In an