Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez has officially unveiled the country's controversial new flag. Parliament last week approved changes to the 200-year-old design, including the addition of an ...

Chavez changes Venezuela's flag. Venezuelan congresswoman Cilia Flores displays a copy of the new coat of arms during a congresssession in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 7, 2006.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez raised a new national flag with changes that he said pay tribute to independence hero Simon Bolivar but that critics called frivolous and wasteful. The flag debuted on ...

Venezuela's National Assembly, dominated by the president's allies, approved the modified flag last week after Chavez proposed changes as a tribute to Venezuelan-born, South American liberation ...