Student leader Yon Goicoechea announced another march against Comptroller General Clodosbaldo Russian's ban on 386 people from standing as candidates in the regional elections. The march is scheduled for July 12. Opposition Mayor Leopoldo Lopez of Chacao called on political organizations and citizens to join protests that day.
President Hugo Chavez promoted 71 military officers to the rank of general or vice admiral, its equivalent in the navy, according to the Official Gazette. Critics argue that Venezuela's armed forces are not large enough to require so many officers in the high ranks and that this makes the military top heavy.
Cattle ranchers have warned that it's only a matter of time before meat supplies start to run out. Ranchers federation Fedenaga President Genaro Mendez said that recent data indicated that supplies could run short by October this year. Farmers claim government policies work against them boosting output.
Imports of white goods and other consumer durables on average worked out 7.8 percent cheaper last year than their equivalents produced in the country, according to figures released by the Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV). The report conceded that domestic producers were losing competitiveness compared with imports.
Official figures put last year's public sector deficit at the equivalent of 2.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), up from 1.5 percent in 2006. State revenues fell from 37.3 percent of GDP in 2006 to 33.1 percent in 2007, while total spending totaled 35 percent of GDP last year. DJ Staff
National Assembly (AN) president Cilia Flores is under question after it emerged that the legislature was still employing an official, Rosalba Gil Pacheco, as head of protocol even though she'd been "inhabilitated" or banned by Comptroller General Clodosbaldo Russian. Details of the case remain murky.
The case of murdered television anchorman Javier Garcia's missing mobile -- cellular telephone -- gets more bizarre by the minute. Cicpc issued an Identikit portrait of a suspect and within hours announced they'd made an arrest. The phone was gaining weight as evidence. Then it was said to have vanished from a laboratory at the investigative and scientific police, Cicpc. The police reportedly opened two court cases in connection with this surprising development, and questioned staff at Cicpc headquarters who may have come into contact with the missing evidence. Then, on Monday, Interior and Justice Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín told reporters that cellular phones belonging to both García and the suspect were under guard at Cicpc. Thus did he dismiss the earlier reports, but without referring to the court cases. It was never likely crime beat reporters were going to leave this one alone. On Wednesday, it emerged that the cellular hadn't passed into police hands until two days before after a search of a hotel room where the suspect was staying.
Proposals put forward by Venezuela at the seventh conference of information ministers from non-aligned countries were reported to have won support during the opening day of the meeting in Isla Margarita. The president of the meeting, Jorge Valero, who has been appointed Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations said a document put forward by his government had been approved by delegates. The proposals set out in the document are to be discussed when ministers assemble today and Friday this week. Reports reaching Caracas said that about a hundred delegates attended the first day, and voted through the proposals without making major alterations to the submitted text. The agenda and the "methodology" of the meeting had been agreed, Valero said. Communications and Information Minister Andres Izarra said earlier this week that the main item on the agenda would be discussion of how to build a so-called new order of international communications.
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