• President Hugo Chavez risks losing ground in main bastions of support
  
• The unemployment rate in Venezuela stood at 8.7% in March 2010
  
• GN anti-drugs agent attempted to load cocaine on Air France flight to Paris
  
• IMF data show that Venezuela's downturn is NOT related to world crisis
  
• President Hugo Chavez says he is not meddling in Colombian elections...
  
• Central Bank (BCV) launches 90-day, zero-coupon bonds for $60 million
  
• Colombia's President rejects exhibition of FARC leader's bust in Venezuela
  
• Colombian candidate Santos hopes to meet with Chavez if elected President
  
• Agriculture Minister opens up credits to restore and boost soy bean production
  
• Nervousness as Venezuelan opposition prepares for Sunday's primaries
  
• World Bank: Private sector activity fall cause of Venezuela's stagnation
  
• Fishermen and peasants prepare sector diagnosis for the CFG meeting
  
• Chavez: To change the climate we must change the capitalist system
  
• 4.6 level tremor in eastern Venezuela ... tropical rain in Caracas
  
• Venezuela steel association: Sidor steel production in 2010 will fall by 25%
  
• US non-profit director accused of stealing thousands may be in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez needed a bailout ... ao he made one up!
  
• VenEconomy // Shortsightedness or revolutionary cunning?
  
• Colombian 'paramilitaries dump murder victims' bodies in Venezuela'
  
• Benedict Mander // Chavez threat hangs over investors
  
• INTI presents its side of the Hato El Frio recovery story alleging media hype
  
• Venezuela sends 200-person delegation to Mother Earth summit in Bolivia
  
• Benedict Mander // PDVSA results allay Venezuela bond worries
  
• Andrew McKillop // Rigged oil prices and the big bounce...
  
• Fans bid final farewell to boxer Valero
  
• Venezuela receives three bids for Carabobo 2 oil block
  
• WB: GDP decline is partly due to crumbling private activity in Venezuela
  
• Chavez bids farewell to Castro; asks cadets "not to bow to the empire"
  
• Iran exports 'revolutionary principles' to Venezuela, report claims
  
• Could Iran strike continental USA in five years with a nuclear-tipped ICBM?
  
• IMF: Venezuela's economic contraction will be the largest in the hemisphere