• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Tuesday, December 21, 2010
  
• J. Gregorio Yepez // El Mundo interviews the editor of Marxist.com
  
• VenEconomy: 2010 ... the year Democracy was washed away
  
• No Happy Christmas for Venezuelans ... 2011 will be far from prosperous

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Monday, December 20, 2010
  
• Fred Cederholm // 2011 will continue this trend. Have I got your attention, yet?
  
• Jackson Diehl // A chance for democracy in Venezuela
  
• Uribe willing to accept US military forces fearing attack from Venezuela
  
• Chavez' $8 billion fuel tab: Venezuela leader loses long bond debt battle
  
• CITGO sends relief aid to help 75,000 flood victims in Venezuela
  
• United States and Venezuela at odds on ambassador, Chavez powers

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Friday, December 17, 2010
  
• Opposition media compares President Hugo Chavez to Hitler ... again
  
• Putting an end to democracy means giving all the power to Hugo Chavez

• Businessmen say Venezuela's economic growth will be meaningless in 2011
  
• Barclays expects Venezuela to devalue the Bolivar against the US$ in 2011
  
• Andrew Cawthorne // How will Chavez decree rule impact Venezuela?
  
• Russian investment into Junin-6 Block project may reach $24 billion
  
• Air Force colonel and pilot detained for trying to fly a Falcon drug plane
  
• Venezuela: Archbishop calls for peace among political factions
  
• John Paul Rathbone // The Caudillo of Caracas?
  
• Wikileaks: Documents confirm US plans against Venezuela
  
• Foreign Ministry: China donates US$300,000 to Venezuelan rain victims
  
• Ongoing international arbitration for Mobil Oil over Venezuelan assets
  
• Enabling Chavez to complete the construction of his communist State
  
• United States says Hugo Chavez is subverting the will of Venezuelans
  
• VENEZUELA: New rules to rein in the Internet

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Wednesday, December 15, 2010
  
• Belarus planning to import 10 million tonnes of Venezuelan oil in 2011
  
• Ekaterina Zelenkova // Is Rusoro Mining stock underestimated?
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez moving toward dictatorship: Opposition
  
• Chavez' Lines -- The people of difficulties!
  
• VenEconomy // A dynamic duo for imposing dictatorial silence
  
• Venezuela halted American Airlines flight crew over "loco Chavez" remark
  
• VenEconomy // Unfulfilled commitments made on December 10, 1948

• Fred Cederholm // We're in deep doo doo right now on literally every front!
  
• Opposition TV continues to dominate in Venezuela, new paper finds
  
• President Hugo Chavez expropriates 43 farms in Zulia and Merida
  
• Fedenaga president Heredia calls takeover of 43 landed estates "plunder"
  
• National Assembly (AN) discusses bill to reform the media law
  
• Popular Power Law passed in National Assembly (AN) permanent session
  
• Communes Law passed and sent to Chavez for review and promulgation
  
• President Hugo Chavez wants the AN to grant him Enabling Law powers
  
• President Hugo Chavez welcomes appointment of new TSJ magistrates
  
• Francisco Sesto is Minister of State for Urban Reconstruction of Caracas
  
• South of Lake Maracaibo ranchers ready for show-down with government
  
• President Hugo Chavez has chance to revamp the Bolivarian revolution
  
• Neil Reynolds // Chavez and the good old days of Marxist misadventure
  
• Venezuelan President receives UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah
  
• US 'tried to stop delivery of Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Venezuela'
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to govern from a Bedouin tent

• Venezuela hits absolute bottom as most corrupt country in Latin America
  
• Human rights group PROVEA demands scrutiny of Venezuelan police force
  
• PDVSA's average price of crude ended the week up $3.36 to $82.53 bbl
  
• Paraguay postpones ratification of Venezuela's Mercosur membership
  
• Andres Oppenheimer: WikiLeaks may help US image in the long-term
  
• Venezuela Formula One's Pastor Maldonado flies flag for Hugo Chavez
  
• Venezuela plans to include the Internet in a law that regulates the media
  
• Venezuela's Mercosur incorporation hostage of Argentine/Paraguay conflict
  
• Provea human rights group: Near 14,000 murders in Venezuela last year
  
• VenEconomy // Expropriations Continue
  
• WikiLeaks: Russia rebuffed United States over missile sales to Venezuela
  
• Movistar Venezuela pays US$600 million in overdue roaming debts
  
• PDVSA, Cantv, Movistar, Mercantil and Banesco in Venezuela top 100

• Chavez blames everybody but himself for disasters besetting Venezuela
  
• Roger F. Noriega // Why is Hugo Chavez Afraid of the US Congress?
  
• Hugo Chavez' ex-wife gives Washington insights into strongman's psyche
  
• Confagan rules out famine after Venezuelan rain emergency...
  
• WikiLeaks cables: Oil giants squeeze Chavez as Venezuela struggles
  
• WikiLeaks cables dismiss Hugo Chavez' nuclear ambitions
  
• US cables leaked on WikiLeaks: VZLA-Nicaragua tensions, blackmail
  
• US embassy cables: VZLA has 'deep domestic economic problems'
  
• US embassy cables: Safety concerns at VZLA oil fields used by Chevron
  
• US embassy cables: Venezuela 'a source of serious concern for Cuba'
  
• Officials 'extremely upset' at failure to attract international gas contract bids
  
• Venezuelan corruption cases in US spotlight Chavez officials
  
• Venezuelan military cooperation with Russia sets off alarms in Washington
  
• Belarusian President Lukashenko orders aid for flood-hit Venezuela
  
• Spain is sending humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Venezuela

• Iran placing medium-range missiles in Venezuela which can reach USA
  
• US leak says Nicaragua received "suitcases full of cash" from Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // Grudges and improvisation from person giving the orders
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez threatens unit of Spain's BBVA bank
  
• Pro-Chavez lawmakers appoint nine justices to Venezuela's Supreme Court
  
• Venezuela TV Network says government stake won't change anything
  
• Andres Izarra returns to head the Communications & Information Ministry
  
• Vice President Jaua confirms 22,000 new houses to be built in Caracas
  
• Government to provide supplies and compensate Higuerote resort hotels
  
• Catholic bishops have helped 15,000 victims of floods and mudslides
  
• Communes Minister Isis Ochoa: communal councils in emergency activities
  
• Fugitive Banco Federal owner Mezerhane bares his teeth from Florida
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // Venezuelans should think anew...

• Vice President takes Miranda Governor Radonski to task about resort hotels
  
• Zulia State (Guajira and south of Lake) declared an emergency zone
  
• Private tourism doubts over what will happen once the emergency is over
  
• WikiLeaks revelations: new angle to bilateral ties; Brazil two-timing Chavez?
  
• London-based Welsh Trotskyist defends Venezuelan President support
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez puts pressure on 24/7 news network
  
• Chavez wins regional elections, loses second most-populated, Maracaibo
  
• WIKILEAKS: February's boxing match between Uribe and Hugo Chavez
  
• PDVSA reports El Palito refinery is operating at full capacity again...
  
• Andrew McKillop //Petro Keynes growth ... the (supposed) oil price threat!

• Opposition candidate claims Maracaibo as big prize in regional elections
  
• Franz J. T. Lee // Venezuela: Are we really losing the revolution?
  
• Iberian-American summit: Venezuela lambasts US spying and intrigue
  
• Venezuelan Agriculture Minister: food supplies not affected by emergency
  
• Finance Minister Jorge Giordani in China for big time agricultural projects
  
• Venezuela proposes Ali Rodriguez Araque as new UNASUR secretary
  
• Rusoro Mining Ltd admits to half million dollar losses in Q3, 2010
  
• Chavez government must accept failure to stop growth of high-risk barrios
  
• Cancun climate change summit gets underway … expectations low
  
• Venezuela: No return to high-risk zones and shack-traffickers warned
  
• 300 families evacuated as Manuelote reservoir in Zulia State leaks water
  
• Andrew Cawthorne // Venezuela's Chavez blames capitalism for deluges
  
• Accused terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, to be tried on perjury charges
  
• VenEconomy // The importance of making the right choice
  
• Cheap, or slave labor has never solved anything in the long run, trust me...

• Reported bribery to speed up Venezuela's accession to Mercosur
  
• Venezuela to pay additional US$150 million to Colombian businessmen
  
• President Hugo Chavez not to attend the Ibero-American Summit
  
• Laurent Le Pierres // This just in from the US Embarrassy
  
• Ghana's Jerry Rawlings sees Chavez opening up VTV to criticism
  
• China will pump US$40 billion into Venezuela's Orinoco belt by 2016
  
• WikiLeaks' cable shows USA plotted to 'exploit' Venezuela ties to Iran
  
• Indictment: Non-profit's ex-leader Louanne Aponte stole more than $1 million
  
• VenEconomy // Neither transparency nor legality
  
• Wikileaks in Venezuela: Espionage, Propaganda and Disinformation
  
• Venezuela's Jewish Community Sees "Dark Horizon"
  
• Yvette Rangel // Angel Falls in the Venezuelan rainforest
  
• PDVSA resumes operations at Amuay refinery; ready to restart Cardon
  
• Venezuela does not anticipate any changes at OPEC's meeting
  
• Barclays recommends more exposure to Venezuela on fiscal changes

• Venezuela: Chavez says Clinton feels superior because she is 'white'
  
• WikiLeaks sheds light on plight of Venezuela's Jews
  
• Chinese companies are increasing investments in Venezuela oil and gas
  
• Venezuela to liquidate Banco Federal according to the Official Gazette
  
• Chavez: ALBA adopts united front in Cancun climate change summit
  
• PJ and Voluntad Popular leaders desperate for emergency brownies
  
• Cablegate: Caracas embassy tackled drastic fall in US popularity
  
• WikiLeaks Embassy cables reveal VZLA's healthcare system collapsing
  
• VZLA scientists doubt nation has uranium, according to WikiLeaks cables
  
• British & Venezuela IT experts scoop $25,000 UNESCO prizes
  
• Shell sees stoppage at a crude joint venture in Venezuela over in days
  
• The Empire has no clothes: WikiLeaks, dirty face of US diplomacy
  
• Williams sign Venezuela's Pastor Maldonado for 2011 Formula One season
  
• Spanish companies view Venezuela as a risky country
  
• Spain's FM requests more legal certainty for Spaniards in Venezuela

• Wearing C-i-C uniform, President Hugo Chavez leads emergency effort
  
• It�s definitely spin: Cubans giving orders to Venezuelan military
  
• Rains in Venezuela hit more than 7,500 households, currently 259 shelters
  
• CADIVI's Manuel Barroso denies delays in repatriation of capital
  
• Maria Corina Machado reveals Cold War credentials; shows true colors
  
• Venezuelans can now buy cheap sports clothes in the new ALBA shops
  
• USA says Cuban spies directly advise Venezuelan President Chavez
  
• Spanish government taking actions to deal with case of Venezuelan judge
  
• China-made satellite keeps remote areas in Venezuela connected
  
• Alicia Machado quits Twitter after referring to the Koreas as the Chinas
  
• Institute of the Americas president Jeffrey Davidow will retire next May
  
• Guyana's Caracas ambassador Ishmael to be ambassador in Kuwait
  
• WikiLeaks reveals that Brazil likely knew of FARC presence in Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // An emergency of just one political color
  
• 112 Venezuelans left stranded at Panama's Tocumen international airport
  
• VZLA calls on Israel to "make sincere efforts" toward Middle East peace
  
• Chris Herz // An open letter to President Hugo Chavez Frias: Wikileaks
  
• Wikileaks and Latin America: Same old imperious US diplomats

• Connie Mack hammers Obama and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on CITGO
  
• President Chavez and Wikileaks: US policy to isolate him will continue to fail
  
• No let up in rains … uneasy emergency response government-opposition
  
• Initial reaction in Venezuela to Wikileaks latest is cool and expectant
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls on Hillary Clinton to resign over WikiLeaks
  
• Venezuela relaunches state airline Conviasa with a fleet of 15 aircraft
  
• 13 people known to have died and 2,000 families affected in rain storms
  
• Venezuela declares State of Emergency in rain-wrecked Falcon State
  
• Venezuela's Cardon refinery stops operations amidst storm
  
• VenEconomy // Heavy rains, radicalism and politicization
  
• Venezuela to resume supply of subsidized fuel to Colombia
  
• Colombia promises good relationship with United States, Venezuela

• Former ambassador: Other six ETA members work for Chavez' government
  
• Venezuela's PDVSA still has debts with oil suppliers incurred in 2009
  
• Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro: Venezuela will burn if Chavez is killed
  
• Colombia: Improving ties with Venezuela is not affecting US relations
  
• Rusoro Mining results for Q3 2010: Net income increased to $7.4 million
  
• Wall Street elves have been busy crunching numbers, graphing the results
  
• Editorial: There are NGOs and NGOs… government needs to discern
  
• WikiLeaks: Sarkozy aide branded Venezuela's Hugo Chavez 'crazy'
  
• Venezuelan government in preventive mode versus constant rains
  
• Cadivi strikes out more fraudsters abusing the system
  
• Former anti-drugs czar questions seizure and use of narco assets
  
• BBVA denies trying to sell Venezuela bank for $2 billion
  
• Jasmine Enberg // Hugo Chavez threatening another TV station
  
• UNASUR Summit in Guyana approves Democratic Protocol
  
• Seeking cash, President Hugo Chavez looks to sell CITGO
  
• Mark Riddix // Who would buy CITGO from Hugo Chavez?
  
• Chavez: Russia has given Venezuela a $4 billion credit to purchase arms
  
• Venezuela buying 10-12 Chinese medium-range transport aircraft
  
• Benedict Mander // Christmas feast under threat in Venezuela
  
• President Chavez announces 14 tonnes of aid for rain victims in Colombia
  
• Heavy rains falling in Venezuela caused three more deaths in Caracas
  
• VenEconomy // A Mythomaniac Revolution

• Stabroek News editorial queries Guyana's role in Unasur chair
  
• Globovision's Guillermo Zuloaga is the toast of the town in Washington
  
• Zuloaga and Globovision represent Venezuela's rancid oligarchic castes
  
• New book on Simon Bolivar examines differences with Francisco de Miranda
  
• PDVAL rotten food trial will be public and oral for three scapegoats
  
• Venezuelan airlines welcome improvements at Caracas international airport
  
• Government buys into 81.2% of French capital Cativen supermarket JV
  
• VenEconomy // The plan goes, come Hell or High Water
  
• Russian-Venezuelan nuclear cooperation agreement comes into force
  
• Venezuela in trouble for not clearing anti-person landmines
  
• Prices of traditional Xmas hallacas get a new twist from government
  
• Dutch NGO attacks Venezuelan Navy defense contract with Dutch company
  
• PSUV to debate Chavez 3Rs square root proposals for next three years
  
• VenEconomy // Hugo Chavez has drawn his hatchet of war...

• Venezuela's debt payments in 2010-2011 at $14 billion; Debts $31.9 billion
  
• Venezuela's business sector rejects violation of economic rights
  
• Argentina's Ternium: No final payment yet for nationalization of Sidor
  
• Venezuela has had 11 years to clear mines on its border with Colombia
  
• Venezuelan government authorizes joint venture to construct refinery
  
• Venezuelan State powers sign Anti-Imperialist Manifesto
  
• Chico Carrasquel Foundation to start El Sistema pilot scheme in Chicago
  
• ID & Immigration chief orders arrest of corrupt officials at Valencia airport
  
• Opposition seeking contact with military officers through family and friends
  
• Venezuela open for business for those firms which wish to brave the risks
  
• VenEconomy // Information limbo on the horizon
  
• Chavez urges lawmakers to ban US financing of his opponents

• Globovision TV's Guillermo Zuloaga denies $100 million murder plot
  
• Venezuela's National Assembly rejects anti-ALBA Forum in Washington
  
• Ukraine starts pumping Venezuelan oil through Odessa-Brody pipeline
  
• Venezuela bans unauthorized use of President Hugo Chavez' image
  
• Chavez responds to President Obama's joke about visiting Venezuela
  
• Chavez announces 2012 re-election bid; warns return of the 'bourgeois'
  
• VenEconomy // where's the Bolivarian Revolution Going?
  
• World Organization Against Torture concerned about Venezuela

• Russian-Canadian Rusoro plans to increase gold production in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela foresees successful end to "rude" Exxon, ConocoPhillips claims
  
• Takeover and liquidation of brokerages published in the Official Gazette
  
• PDVSA, ENI to set up joint venture in Junin 5 block in the Orinoco Oil Belt
  
• Venezuela's Polar complains of "friction" with the Chavez government
  
• INCOSEC director says virtually anyone can be kidnapped in Venezuela
  
• Public sector imports up 47% to $5.4 billion; private sector down 22%
  
• "Venezuela safe haven for foreigners who are responsible for genocide"
  
• Rusoro exported 4,924.2 ounces of gold to Switzerland on November 17
  
• Venezuela to extradite FARC leaders only if guilty of narco-trafficking
  
• President Chavez: Government studies options vs.Globovision's Zuloaga
  
• CEO responsible for integrating FANB with the people … no going back
  
• Venezuela's Chavez calls opposition TV channel owner "A Fugitive."..
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez alleges $100 million plot to kill him
  
• Chris Herz // Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...
  
• USA hoped to use alleged cocaine kingpin to smear Chavez' government
  
• United Arab Emirates; GCAA agrees air services deal with Venezuela
  
• Venezuela to immediately request extraditions in Danilo Anderson case
  
• Venezuela: BP sells oil and gas production businesses for $1.8 billion
  
• Venezuelan state steelmaker Sidor hopes to double output for 2011
  
• Orchestral fireworks: Venezuelan conductor is sacked after walkout

• Venezuela renews indirect anti-narcotics relations with DEA via Colombia
  
• Military or civilians tainted by narco-trafficker Makled will be prosecuted
  
• The Anderson case: Venezuela asks US to extradite two suspects
  
• Opposition: FANB more divided because of Rangel Silva promotion
  
• "Chavez supports in Cuba the changes he rebutted in Venezuela"
  
• The Chavista revolution has done tremendous damage to Venezuela
  
• In Venezuela, remarks like 'Hitler didn't finish the job' are routine
  
• International Labor Organization asks to stop criminalization of protests

• Venezuela's Attorney General promises open trial of Makled, if extradited
  
• AN president announces extraordinary sessions to discuss reform laws
  
• Caracas Mayor Rodriguez gives workers extra month bonus as stimulus
  
• Guyana rice farmers send rice to Venezuela ... eliminating middlemen
  
• Sidor B Class shareholders and worker control advocates clash at CVG gates
  
• Arrest of six 'Arepera Socialista' staff illustrates Venezuela's uphill struggle
  
• Miami Herald's Andres Oppenheimer: Chavez and others distort Bolivar
  
• Thieves steal thirty new Canaima mini-computers from primary school
  
• Opposition deputy-elect says national budget for 2011 is more of the same
  
• Venezuela responds; sends emergency aid to St.Vincent & The Grenadines
  
• Interview with Maria Leon, newly elected MP for the PSUV in Aragua
  
• Venezuelan economy recovering but 15% devaluation expected in 2011
  
• Venezuela: Thousands demand passing of radical Labor Law
  
• China National Gold Group eyes Latin America, Russia for further growth
  
• Colombian and Venezuelan minsters to meet in Cartagena today, Friday
  
• President Chavez has reacted to opposition gains in September's election
  
• Belarus to get Venezuela oil from Novorossiisk via exchange with Glencore

• Oscar Heck // "Finally, the Chavez regime has fallen…"
  
• "Policies should be revised; otherwise, debt would take complicated path"
  
• Crystallex waiting with bated breath to mine for gold at Las Cristinas
  
• Venezuela, Iran and Nicaragua Plan to create "Nicaragua Canal"
  
• Technip awarded major offshore contract for Mariscal Sucre development
  
• Poverty level in Venezuela drops by 26%; extreme poverty down 7.2%
  
• Venezuela's top food co plans major investments despite takeover threats
  
• Venezuela's communist "revolution" has morbid tendency to distort reality
  
• Venezuela's Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) to reopen 2017 bond
  
• General Motors: Venezuela has good prospects in 2011

• Venezuela's GDP decline is almost zero, says Planning Minister Giordani
  
• Spanish Foreign Min. insists there are no political prisoners in Venezuela
  
• Recession continues in Venezuela; GDP tumbles 0.4%
  
• Three Colombian kidnappers are captured and deported
  
• Ros-Lehtinen criticizes democratic "decline" in Venezuela and allies
  
• Chris Herz // Can you imagine US President Sarah Palin after 2012?
  
• President Chavez warning: any coup will be met by counter-coup
  
• Federal Council of Government agrees to budget based on $40 a barrel
  
• AN president welcomes Makled extradition to Venezuela and not USA
  
• Connie Mack outraged over transfer of noted drug kingpin to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // A fence of thorns for the regions
  
• Socialist International rejects Rangel Silva's statements

• Colombia to extradite alleged drug kingpin Walid Makled to Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan Maria Espinoza pleads guilty to charges in fatal wreck
  
• Abuse by authorities and Rangel's case aired at Socialist International
  
• Executive Office concedes obstacles to better wages of public servants
  
• Attorney General has sent 93 housing fraud cases to court in one year
  
• Ambassador Valero repeats call for extradition of Cuban Miami terrorist
  
• Venezuela and Belarus discuss advance on cooperation projects
  
• Belarus to pay for test pumping of Venezuelan oil through Ukraine
  
• Venezuela and China enhance cooperation between the two militaries
  
• As everyone knows, a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth...
  
• Florida Rep. Connie Mack: Stand up to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
  
• VZLA conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa walks out on Philharmonic Orchestra
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to Spain steps down in the next few days
  
• Gas production in Venezuela's giant offshore field to start in 2013

• Venezuela in the dock of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  
• President Hugo Chavez: Takeover of apartments will not be compensated
  
• Venezuelans' purchasing power crumbled 4.9% in the last year
  
• Russia's Glavmosstroy to build 300,000 sq.m. of housing in Venezuela
  
• Italian Eni, Spanish Repsol expect Venezuela gas field early output
  
• Chavez: The State is ready and able to defend the suffering middle class
  
• Chavez admits faults in metro system, appeals to the 'decent' Venezuela
  
• Jerry Brewer // Political polarization in Venezuela emits unclear message
  
• Chinese General Chen Bingde: Military keen on exchange with Venezuela
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez to attend Ibero American Summit
  
• Benedict Mander // Chavez moves to radicalized revolution...
  
• Two hurt in accident at Venezuela's 180,000 bpd Petropiar oil upgrader
  
• Stratfor // Makled's threat to the Venezuelan Regime
  
• Fred Cederholm /// Quack, quack, quack… for another month yet!
  
• Venezuelan police find three tonnes marijuana on truck from Colombia
  
• 33 arrested; accused of "sabotage" and "hijacking" Caracas Metro trains
  
• Venezuelan banks owed more than $1 billion in outstanding debts...
  
• First step taken to allow the government to take over private banks
  
• Oliver L Campbell: PDVSA versus oil-related arbitration claims
  
• Mary MacElveen // Is Fallujah, Iraq our economic penance? Oh you betcha!
  
• Andrew McKillop // Can Neutron Money Save the Global Economy?
  
• Inflation in Venezuela is a weird thing ... rather extreme and at times...

• Last minute delay to resolution on Venezuela's gold mining sector!
  
• Oscar Heck // This is one of the main reasons why I love Venezuela …
  
• Venezuela's climate change warrior says the Kyoto Protocol must stay
  
• Diego Arria questions Agriculture Ministry video on Yaracuy coffee
  
• Colombia's Supreme Court to decide on Walid Makled extradition
  
• Regina Conley // Venezuela: A Vibrant Democracy?
  
• Benedict Mander // The banks: Chavez' next target?
  
• Belarus thanks Venezuela's support to overcome the crisis
  
• PDVSA gives contract for Mariscal Sucre platform to France's Technip
  
• Workers at CVG-Venalum say they are tiring of old-style trade unionism
  
• Ombudswoman Ramirez defends situation room and right to a house
  
• President Chavez promotes controversial General Henry Rangel Silva
  
• AN revs up its engines to consolidate the Castro-communist project
  
• Venezuela seizes Aeropostal airline owned by accused drug trafficker
  
• Venezuela's anti-drug Czar denies arrested kingpin's corruption allegations
  
• Venezuelan banks may be forced to surrender 5% of profits under new law

• Early resolution to Las Cristinas will put paid to "capitalist" speculations
  
• Open letter from Ambassador Diego Arria to General Henry Rangel Silva
  
• OAS' Jose Miguel Insulza rejects statements made by Venezuelan General
  
• Venezuela: Six national academies propose institutional reconstruction
  
• Positive result does not tally with the true situation facing Venezuelans
  
• Venezuelan minister says talks with Saudi Arabian officials was fruitful
  
• Venezuelan government policy fails to attack the causes of inflation
  
• Chris Herz // VHeadline's the Best!
  
• Climate change comeback or fast forward to New World Order money?
  
• Eva Golinger // Washington increases clandestine ops against Venezuela

• George W. Bush calls Chavez "the Mugabe of South America"
  
• Venezuelan tried to smuggle cocaine worth almost $804,000 into the UK
  
• VenEconomy // Explaining the Venezuelan situation to a Martian
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela: a different kind of food crisis
  
• Venezuela's Empresas Polar to team up with Spain's Leche Pascual
  
• Reflections about transcending the dialectics of Reform and Revolution

• Joel D. Hirst // Walid Makled: First threat to the Santos-Chavez Lovefest
  
• VZLA's Embassy hosts event marking anniversary of Palestinian Intifada
  
• Oliver L Campbell // Abreu y Lima Refinery investment should be cancelled
  
• Chavez' boomerang: Effort to woo middle class with expropiations backfires
  
• IAPA requests international support for owners of Venezuelan channel
  
• Chavez is being unmasked as a mastermind of a criminal regime...
  
• VenEconomy // Acid from Cuba
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Cuba to meet the Castro brothers
  
• Political polarization has sparked a green movement in Venezuela
  
• Andrew McKillop // Atomic surprises...

• Chavez: United States is trying to initiate another plot against Venezuela
  
• Indigenous protesters demand recognition of ancestral lands in Venezuela
  
• Colombian trade mission travels to Venezuela to start bi-lateral negotiations
  
• Venezuelan military would "not accept" an elected opposition government
  
• Chavez says that the Venezuelan opposition treats drug lord as a "hero"
  
• QE2 will work no better than QE1 ... it all began on Jekyll Island!
  
• The Las Cristinas dream remains "dead in the limbo of incompetence..."
  
• Rusoro's PMG trade union pleased but keeping quiet on Las Cristinas
  
• Chavez in Cuba to review cooperation and deepen ALBA projects
  
• Government and opposition united in honoring Domingo Maza Zavala
  
• Chris Herz // If you don't understand Washington now, when will you?
  
• Oliver L Campbell // PDVSA and those pending arbitration claims
  
• President Chavez warns of attempts to "wreck" Venezuela-Colombia ties
  
• Chavez says accused drug kingpin Walid Makled will go to Venezuela
  
• Iran and Venezuela ink Nano co-operation seal
  
• President Hugo Chavez targets freedom of press says IAPA
  
• Venezuelan Elizabeth Mosquera wins Miss International 2010 title
  
• President Hugo Chavez defends state takeovers of residential complexes
  
• Colombian kidnap victim Ana Judith Agudelo freed in Venezuela
  
• Two Ukrainian sailors convicted of cocaine trafficking to be extradited
  
• VenEconomy // On the brink of a break in diplomatic relations?
  
• Caracas bristles at Spanish comments about ETA and Venezuela

• Ambassador Ishmael: LAC exports are expected to grow by 21.4% in 2010
  
• Venezuelan Foreign Minister strikes up strategic alliance with Turkey
  
• Gov'mt woos middle class families swindled by construction companies
  
• Venezuela's opposition accuses Spain of interfering in internal affairs
  
• Spain must end 'soundbite blitz' linking Venezuela to ETA separatists
  
• National Assembly passes law setting up bicentenary public stock exchange
  
• Venezuela: How can we fight for a PSUV which serves the workers and poor?
  
• Venezuelan man sets world free-diving record in underwater tunnel network
  
• Venezuelan cardinal urges faithful to unite around Catholic bishops
  
• Venezuela ranks low as place to do business, report says
  
• Arizona man indicted for exporting military aircraft engines to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // A war of planned destruction
  
• Flute virtuoso brings Venezuela's musical traditions to Tokyo
  
• 500 tonnes of rotten black beans found in 25 containers in Puerto Cabello
  
• World Bank: Venezuela has the worst business climate in the region
  
• Asdrubal Aguiar: Venezuela should be subject to global oversight

• 2,000 kilos gold produced instead of 8,000 that had been the goal...
  
• World Bank: Venezuela has the worst business climate in the region
  
• Asdrubal Aguiar: Venezuela should be subject to global oversight
  
• Andres Cala // Hugo Chavez' anti-terrorism credentials tested by Spain
  
• New trade and development agenda proposal from Latin America etc
  
• Venezuelan government pulls drug-trafficking themed 'telenovelas' off the air
  
• IOE asks VZLA government to investigate attack against business leaders
  
• Turkey to buy fuel from Venezuela and invest in its oil and gas sector
  
• Jackson Diehl // How Castro and Chavez lost the 2010 elections
  
• Santiago Sosa // Colombia and Venezuela ... a dysfunctional couple
  
• Venezuela's Chavez, Colombia's Santos sign 'Miraflores Declaration'
  
• Thousands gathered in shelters, affected by heavy rains in Venezuela
  
• BCV president Merentes adamant that one-digit inflation possible by 2013
  
• Tourism Minister Alejandro Fleming: domestic tourism rose 13% in 2010
  
• Embarrassing hunger strike by employees at VenIran JV tractor plant
  
• Russian AvtoVAZ has begun exporting its "Lada" vehicles to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // Following the clues of revolutionary destruction
  
• Chavez allies back Basque separatist fighting extradition to Spain
  
• Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro kicks off three-country tour
  
• Storm stops 130,000 barrels-per-day Petroanzoategui oil upgrader again
  
• Hopefully this will keep Obama and his men too busy to attack Venezuela

• Khan petitions TSJ to declare Crystallex' Las Cristinas contract null & void!
  
• Venezuela's tax agency attains 2010 tax collection goal
  
• PDVSA's social contribution amounts to $69.3 billion
  
• Venezuela Finance Minister: 2011 budget is prudent
  
• Spain releases former police officer wanted by Venezuelan authorities
  
• Crystallex duped by AN deputies and delays in environmental permits...
  
• Chavez, Santos "committed to not allowing anyone derail" their relation
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) to supply Colombia with 7,700 bpd fuel
  
• Las Cristinas' golden future lies in Rusoro-RusTech and Minerven JV
  
• Santos and Chavez satisfied with progress towards economic integration
  
• Michael Rowan // No you can't
  
• Venezuela sending 15,000 soldiers to border to root out irregulars
  
• National Assembly approves Russian-Venezuelan nuclear energy agreement
  
• CVAL's Urteaga confirms agricultural advances in Lara State Turbio valley
  
• Venezuela, Colombia sign energy agreements, vowing to revive lost trade
  
• Joel Hirst // The Bolivarian Alliance & Hugo Chavez' propaganda machine
  
• Venezuela expects rulings in Exxon/ConocoPhillips compensation claims
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has $400 million for Brazil refinery
  
• Venezuela authorizes payment of $336 million to Colombian exporters
  
• Venezuelan man found guilty on drug smuggling charge in USA

• Minister Khan defends expropriation of Sidetur for coveted iron rods
  
• Government wins brownie points taking over uncompleted housing projects
  
• Two more construction workers murdered in Ciudad Guayana
  
• Rusoro Mining gets thumbs up from Venezuelan gold-mining communities
  
• VenEconomy // Even more evident how truly evil Chavez' revolution is
  
• Minister: Power outages are due to dependence on foreign firms
  
• PDVSA's Petroanzoategui heavy oil upgrader resumes operations
  
• Alan Woods // where is the Venezuelan Revolution going?

• Crystallex gets taste of its own medicine as it follows PDG out the door
  
• Tabloid claims National Assembly approved CVG and Crystallex deal
  
• Venezuela's Ombudswoman proposes HR commission within Unasur
  
• Venezuela's energy agreements with Russia amount to $4 billion
  
• Colombia-Venezuela presidential meeting to be held in Miraflores
  
• Chavez will nationalize more before next presidential election in 2012
  
• Venezuelan steel maker Sidetur to challenge government takeover
  
• Venezuela's Fedecamaras expects government to protect economic rights
  
• Expropriate it! The Chavez approach to Venezuela's housing shortage
  
• Chavez orders expropriation of largest privately-owned steel producer
  
• Rusoro receives final permits to commence offshore gold sales
  
• Chris Herz // Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius II
  
• About 100 passengers evacuated from plane due to accident in Venezuela
  
• President Hugo Chavez lists cacao as Venezuelan strategic product
  
• President Hugo Chavez' nuke push is a problem the US needs to face
  
• Uncle $ugar is "borrowing" upwards of $4 billion every day to pay his bills

• Last minute deliberations have put Las Cristinas and Las Brisas on hold!
  
• Crystallex' Las Cristinas mining contract should be declared null and void...
  
• Venezuela under Chavez is one of the major ports for drug trafficking...
  
• Miss Venezuela beauties endure 'military' regimen
  
• Venezuela organizations denounce violations of freedom of expression
  
• Amazon Indians ravaged by apparent malaria epidemic, dozens dead

• VenEconomy // An attempt at terrorizing or a result of uncontrolled crime?
  
• PDVSA acknowledges that social welfare programs jeopardize it
  
• "In the event of seizing Polar, the State will be consolidated in the sector"
  
• Ex-Presidential candidate Eduardo Fernandez' residence attacked
  
• Russian Lada cars will begin to arrive in Venezuela in November
  
• Valencia lake overflows because of recent heavy rains; threatens homes

• Rusoro Mining gets crucial permit to export 50% of its stock of gold bullion
  
• Odeen Ishmael // UNASUR to establish a "democracy clause"
  
• Venezuelan tabloid: Legal aspects prevent the exploitation of Las Cristinas...
  
• Owens-Illinois expropriation was move against monopolies...
  
• Shooting: Leading Venezuelan business woman out of danger
  
• PROVEA concerned about whereabouts of ETA man's Spanish lawyers
  
• PDVAL clarifies case of 60 tonnes of expired powdered milk
  
• Ambassador Moncada and BBC's Jeremy Paxton question TI
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuela in Permanent Mourning
  
• President Chavez to announce Venezuela's gold mining details on Sunday
  
• Chris Herz // Quem deus vult peredere, dementat prius...
  
• Oscar Heck // "Why, really, do I hate Canada in a generalized way?"
  
• "Chinese" interests to take over Venezuela's Las Cristinas gold mine?

• Fedecamaras executives kidnapped; ex-Fedecamaras head injured
  
• Business leader suspects the felons were not simply common criminals
  
• IACHR deals with four human rights cases related to Venezuela
  
• Venamcham urges the government to stop government takeovers
  
• Venezuela unlikely to sell United States refiner CITGO soon
  
• Incredible cruelty to a captive lion at Maturin Zoo ... risks being repeated!
  
• Minister: Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) facing tough sale of CITGO
  
• Venezuela has stopped sending gasoline to Iran
  
• Venezuela hopes to begin first Orinoco oil production in 2011
  
• Venezuela says BP's asset sale valued at $800 million
  
• Venezuela prevents visit of UN special rapporteur
  
• Judge denies bail to Venezuelan receiver of former securities firm
  
• Venezuela cuts reserve requirement twice in a week
  
• Venezuela's ambassador to Spain regrets Parliament's decision
  
• Chavez voices desire "to get out of" US oil company CITGO
  
• Venezuela moves more oil exports away from US
  
• VenEconomy // A path of nuclear thorns
  
• Chris Herz // The Highest State of Capitalism
  
• Directory at the Venezuelan Ministry of Basic Industries & Mining

• Chavez expresses sympathy for former President Kirchner's death
  
• Crystallex International: Don't ask ... no need to disclose Venezuela set-back!
  
• Ex-President Alvaro Uribe Velez warns of Venezuela's nuclear threat
  
• CITGO was impacted by sale of assets and financial aid to PDVSA
  
• AN-74 aircraft is an integral solution of many tasks in Venezuela
  
• Debunking Chavez' Tour: What Chavez' trip to Russia really means for USA
  
• 71-year-old Venezuelan Jose Antonio Abreu wins Seoul Peace Prize
  
• Joel Brinkley // Why can't Spain leave Hugo Chavez alone?
  
• Venezuelan regulator arrested in Miami for attempted extortion
  
• Owens-Illinois to monitor Venezuela takeover of two bottle factories
  
• Jim Wyss // Hemisphere loser: Venezuela
  
• Benedict Mander // Chavez: in the mood for nationalization
  
• Colombia/Venezuela Santos-Chavez meeting postponed

• Las Cristinas, Las Brisas in Venezuela-Russia carve-up on gold mining
  
• Chavez: Russia will help Venezuela "start to exploit Las Cristinas mine"
  
• Venezuela sends troops to US glassmaker Owens Illinois' plants
  
• United States expects Venezuela to compensate expropriated firm
  
• Gazprombank and VTB partner Venezuela in joint Russian-Venezuelan bank
  
• About 12% of Venezuela's national budget for debt service in 2011
  
• Chavez: 69 economic agreements made to break capitalist grip on Venezuela
  
• Russian-Venezuelan investment bank to fund plantain exports to Russia
  
• Venezuela ready to sell CITGO refineries, gas stations in the USA
  
• Owens-Illinois ... Chavez secures passive liabilities for doctors and nurses
  
• Russia, Iran and Belarus to build 37,512 houses in Venezuela
  
• Jesuit lifts hunger strike to defend indigenous cause as demands are met
  
• Tension in Merida after two men shot in student university residence
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls Venezuela-owned CITGO "bad business"
  
• VenEconomy // Anarchy, Disinformation and Impunity
  
• Hunger strike off as government agrees to talks on native demands
  
• Two leaders of a pro-Chavez group murdered in in the city of Merida
  
• Venezuela's PDVSA will not expand its US$3 billion bond issue
  
• Alfredo Bremont // Financial monarchy is the enemy Chavez has to face

• Crystallex' had a two year deadline to get Las Cristinas into production!
  
• FANB stops illegal extraction of 1.2 kilos of gold per month in Venezuela
  
• Erick Stakelbeck // Chavez, Drug cartels and terrorism funding
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez to give details of accords signed during tour
  
• Chavez welcomes Colombian decision not to allow US military to use bases
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez back in Venezuela after tour
  
• Venezuela's Chavez sees multipolar world really emerging
  
• Jesuit continues hunger strike for Yukpa indians in Venezuela
  
• Chris Herz // Julian Assange and Wikileaks
  
• Achieving big things in small spaces: Towards VZLA food sovereignty

• University of Tripoli grants President Hugo Chavez an Honorary Doctorate
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Portugal to buy boats, computers
  
• Venezuela, Libya strengthen bilateral relations and South-South integration
  
• Chavez in Libya: Venezuela will not submit to any outside supervision
  
• VenEconomy // Higher inflation and more poverty for the population...
  
• Venezuela asks Iranian officials for help to construct 50,000 houses
  
• Workers' subordination feared to make an impact on CVG management
  
• Demolition of Venezuelan independence hero Jose Antonio Paez' ranch
  
• Hugo Chavez' latest diplomatic venture ... Venezuela's multi-polar disorder
  
• Venezuelan VP: Companies will be nationalized as required
  
• Venezuela boosts programs to protect sea turtles
  
• Chavez to Obama: nuclear plant will not be used for military purposes
  
• Venezuela drops nine places in the 2010 World Press Freedom Index
  
• Venezuela's budget to depend on taxes and borrowing
  
• Venezuelan forex board has authorized $18 billion for imports
  
• Colombian President Santos and Chavez to meet October 29

• Mibam: If small scale gold-miners displaced ... they will go illegal
  
• Venezuela pushing for talks with Gold Reserve to avoid arbitration
  
• Russia's Medvedev and Chavez unveil deal for 'a new world order'
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez says Capitalism responsible for poverty
  
• Venezuelan Planning Minister aiming for 0.5% growth and 22% inflation rate
  
• Transport Minister promises improvements at Caracas international airport
  
• Ombudswoman speaks out against death of 3 yr-old denied medical attention
  
• Barbados limits ties with Venezuela to bilateral accords ... no ALBA
  
• President Chavez expected to buy new batch of 'Magellan' computers
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez throws his weight behind Syria
  
• VenEconomy // An obligation and a pressing need
  
• Venezuela is going through a very difficult period politically and socially
  
• Venezuela faces challenge of democratic model based on cooperation
  
• Venezuela: Economic fall will be lower in third quarter 2010
  
• Colombia to stop supplies of gas supply to Venezuela from November
  
• President Hugo Chavez says Obama sowing 'doubt' on nuclear deal
  
• President Hugo Chavez describes the UN as "a waste of time!"
  
• Phillippe Michel // Venezuela to develop nuclear program with Iran's help
  
• Iran and Venezuela sign agreement to construct oil refinery in Syria
  
• Pro-government labor unions urge the government to stop expropriations

• Venezuela: Nationalizations, expropriations or "theft of assets"...
  
• Uncertainty grips expectant gold-mining communities in Bolivar State
  
• Russia Today Spanish TV wins awards at Promax/BDA LatAm ceremony
  
• Jailed Crystallex opponent Carlos Chancellor wants immediate release
  
• VenRus: Unrest and grumbling among workers at the La Isidora mine
  
• PROVEA chief Mariano Alvarado backs ETA man Arturo Cubillas
  
• Antonio Padrino // The permanent opposition in Venezuela
  
• Presidents Chavez and Ahmadinejad determined to alter World Order
  
• Matt Gurney // Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has been busy as of late
  
• Colombian police seize 500 kilos (1,101 pounds) of illegally mined coltan
  
• Venezuela: Chavez is said to have reached agreement with Lord Vestey
  
• President Chavez begins official visit to Syria President Bashar al-Assad
  
• Venezuela is to establish a joint development bank with Russia

• Digging Venezuela out of the mess Chavez has plunged it into...
  
• Oliver L Campbell // PDVSA: Financial results -- January/June 2010
  
• Iran and Venezuela to form joint oil company, sign 11 MOUs
  
• Venezuela Central Bank (BCV) lowers reserve deposit requirement
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela 2017 bonds exempted from income tax
  
• Exxon cuts Venezuela arbitration claim to US$7 billion
  
• President Barack Obama says Venezuela has right to Russian nuclear aid
  
• Vice President tells university staff and workers that liabilities will be met
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) admits fall in profits and increase of debt
  
• Tehran welcomes Venezuela's Hugo Chavez as partner against 'bullies'
  
• Opposition Unified Panel: Nuclear agreement is all about politics
  
• ETA suspect Arturo Cubillas Fontan denies links with the FARC
  
• UN sanctions on Iran not to limit trade relations with Venezuela
  
• TV tycoon: Chavez is "the enemy of freedom of expression"
  
• VZLA among the countries with less transparent budgetary procedures
  
• Presidents Chavez and Ahmadinejad display their common revolutionary ideal
  
• Iranian Ministry of Industries & Mines to transfer technology to Venezuela
  
• First Syrian 40 tonnes olive oil shipment sails to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // The truth behind the PDVSA figures

• RusTech to join VenRus JV on Las Cristinas, Las Brisas gold mines
  
• News of Las Cristinas recovery filters down to the Venezuelan media
  
• Court proceedings overseas hover over the Venezuelan government
  
• Record of 97,000 cases of dengue reported in Venezuela
  
• Chavez says Colombian newspaper is dictated from the United States
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stresses closer ties with Tehran
  
• VZLA Ambassador doubts it that alleged ETA member is extraditable
  
• Moratinos: ETA suspect can be prosecuted in VZLA without extradition
  
• Embassy sources: Venezuela, Iran to establish joint oil shipping company
  
• Vanessa Neumann // Hugo Chavez' military build-up and Iranian ties
  
• Draft law would make it easier to take over oil service company assets
  
• Mehrabian says Iran's trade with Venezuela stands at US$3.5 billion
  
• Colombia's Santos: Venezuelan trade agreement to be signed in 2011
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez arrives in Tehran for bilateral talks
  
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially welcomes Chavez
  
• Chavez forced to look for a nice international massage for his ego...
  
• Ukrainian companies to exploit oil and natural gas reserves in Venezuela
  
• Spain-Venezuela ties strained as Chavez stonewalls ETA investigation
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela issues PDV 2017 bond with 8.5% coupon
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to Spain continues to grab headlines
  
• Debate in PSUV over Communes replacing State Governorships

• The Las Cristinas Saga -- THE END -- to Russia with love!
  
• Autonomous universities are being plunged into serious deficiencies
  
• Venezuelan ambassador in Basque Country amid ETA controversy
  
• Yanukovych and Chavez agree to stir up Ukraine-Venezuela relations
  
• BelaPAN: Belarus will receive 30 million tonnes of Venezuelan oil
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Ukraine for aerospace talks
  
• Chavez to Lukashenka: building an alternative to world imperialism
  
• Belarus' Mikhail Rusi offers to build a farm for 1,100 cows in Venezuela
  
• Belarus to increase milk powder supplies to Venezuela in 2011
  
• Russia Novoship and Venezuela PDV Marina to establish JV
  
• Vladimir Putin: Russia to ship 35 tanks to Venezuela soon
  
• Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych may visit Venezuela in 2011
  
• Venezuela to export coffee and soy to Belarus as relations get stronger
  
• Chavez pleased with advance in Russian-Venezuelan trade deals
  
• The consequences for dissident nations like Venezuela or Cuba or Iran
  
• Fred Cederholm: Sounds simple enough … IF all the I's are dotted!

• Chavez told NOT welcome in Beijing ... failure of Venezuelan diplomacy!
  
• United States demands Russia and Venezuela to respect international pacts
  
• Chavez says Russia and Venezuela have huge prospects for cooperation
  
• President Chavez heads to Belarus for economic talks with Lukashenko
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez assures trade with Moscow until 2014
  
• Russia may sell S-300 missiles to Venezuela, instead of Iran: analyst
  
• Venezuela okays ENI's partnership with PDVSA in Orinoco oil project
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela heats up Russian affair...
  
• Acting President: Venezuela no longer depends on private industry
  
• Chavez has thrown the engine into reverse by validating Beijing
  
• United States watching 'closely' Venezuela-Russia nuclear deal
  
• Fugitive hob-nobbed with Venezuelan elite; visited Canadian embassies
  
• VZLA takes over Bancoro, citing liquidity problems; 13th seizure in a year
  
• President Chavez lays stone for Simon Bolivar monument in Moscow
  
• British Petroleum's assets in Venezuela will be acquired by TNK-BP
  
• Venezuela agrees to extradite Ukrainian sailors sentenced for drug smuggling
  
• Russia agrees to build Venezuela's first nuclear power station
  
• Venezuela refuses to extradite ETA suspect Arturo Cubillas to Spain
  
• Cuba-Venezuela cable delayed until 'July 2011' ... at the earliest
  
• Chavez: "Big honor now to oppose the Yankee empire's aggression"
  
• VenEconomy // The costs of Venezuela'a Castro-communist Revolution
  
• Chavistas embrace revolution, suspicious of United States' policies
  
• James Dryburgh // What a tangled web they weave

• Benedict Mander // Just how bad is Venezuela's dollar crunch?
  
• Morgan Stanley warns about foreign exchange crunch in Venezuela
  
• President Chavez says that Venezuela will develop nuclear energy
  
• Venezuela requests extradition of General Nestor Gonzalez Gonzalez
  
• Venezuela says it will not extradite alleged ETA trainer Arturo Cubillas
  
• String of nationalizations in Venezuela as Chavez speeds up "revolution"
  
• Vice President Elias Jaua appointed as acting Venezuelan President
  
• Francisco Ameliach appointed Venezuelan Chief of Staff
  
• National Elections Council (CNE) sets timetable for December elections
  
• Ex-minister Saman defends his record in nationalizing sardine factory
  
• Vice President announces additional credit for all state governments etc
  
• Criminal gang nabbed stealing laptops from school in Maracaibo
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez to visit Syria for talks with President al-Assad
  
• Dolan Cummings // Music: for education or political gain?
  
• Hugo Chavez to talk in Moscow on bilateral coop plans up to 2014
  
• Venezuela flavors the menu at El Porton Cafe in south of Kansas City
  
• Chavez shoots off his mouth ... won't hand presidency to the opposition
  
• All nine people on missing Venezuelan boat found safe and sound
  
• Venezuela's oil production up 111,000 bpd; 4.8% in September
  
• A long historical legacy of mistrust of the United States in Venezuela