• Venezuela buys into Dominican Republic refinery as part of Petrocaribe boost
  
• Venezuela: 300 trade union leaders murdered since 2005
  
• Divergent views and analysis on PSUV primaries...
  
• passport & Identification (SAIME) director dismantles passport-forging gang
  
• 20-year-old twins from Puerto Ordaz help lead Ventura College tennis team
  
• Venezuela declares steel foundry Acerven a public utility
  
• Moscow Mayor begins visit to Venezuela with helicopter flight over capital
  
• Several UNASUR Members Could Skip Madrid Summit because of Honduras
  
• Australia PM Kevin Rudd to use budget to counter 'Chavez' image
  
• Buenos Aires Herald: Venezuela refutes Enrique Pescarmona
  
• VenEconomy // And the Ankylosis of the country continues
  
• Brazil "blackmails" Paraguay to approve Venezuela's Mercosur annexation
  
• Ukraine hopes to get $120-130 million over Venezuelan oil transit to Belarus
  
• Colombian presidential candidate won't allow Chavez to export his revolution