National Assembly Deputy Alberto Castelar claimed that the Patriotic Alliance of parties behind President Hugo Chavez had been able to reach accords in recent weeks. The "climate" between them was improving for the government to present "electoral options" in time for the elections on November 23, he claimed.
Armando Battista, a 79-year-old Italian, was rescued by the National Guard (GN) last Saturday night from an isolated house in Yaracuy state where he had been held captive after being kidnapped 26 days earlier. Two females, one of them a legal minor, were arrested as they received Bs.F.100,000 in ransom money.
The National Guard, which celebrated its 71st anniversary earlier last week, announced that it had seized 14 tons of illegal drugs this year so far. Most of the drugs are said to have been cocaine in transit from Colombia to lucrative markets in Europe and North America.
Interest rates ended the last week of July at a basic 22.9 percent, marking a drop of 1.2 percentage points on a week before, according to figures from the Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV). The official reserves rose in the same week by $677 million to reach $33.784 million, continuing an upward trend seen in recent weeks.
A driver and two men who were traveling with him in his truck drowned after the vehicle plunged into an irrigation canal at the side of a highway linking Cumaná and San Juan de Macarapana in Sucre state around midnight last Sunday. They were on their way from a party when the crash occurred.
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