• Cocaine smuggling mother faces UK prison sentence for dealing drugs
  
• AN hopes currency trading reform bill will curb market speculation
  
• VZLA government denies resignation of Finance Minister Jorge Giordani
  
• Venezuela's oil exports down 6.8% in April; on decline ever since 2009
  
• Venezuelans hold vigil to block the seizure of a Pepsi-Cola warehouse
  
• Opposition military affairs NGO director fights threats and harassment
  
• Venezuelan social security team in Spain to help ex-pat pensioners
  
• Recovered peasant-run farms in El Tocuyo report successful first harvest
  
• Aruba and Venezuela rekindle talks to improve contact and cooperation
  
• President Chavez' aversion to criticism ... increasingly intolerant of his critics
  
• Will Latin American Fun Race 4x4 continue to get green light?
  
• VenEconomy // Opening Pandora's Box
  
• Miami-based law firm forms joint venture with Caracas practice