• US radio host star rates VHeadline as a "CIA-front" for Russian spy story
  
• Correo del Orinoco refuses right to reply over Sri Lankan Ambassador slur
  
• President Chavez has ace up his sleeve with Petrosucre currency and OPEC
  
• What the (Oscar) Heck! Chavez is the bad guy, right? Canadians are saints!
  
• Crystallex Int'nal closes previously announced C$35,000,000 financing
  
• M-28 Movement hands six proposals to Venezuela's National Assembly
  
• Decentralization alive and well in Venezuela ... not just for State Governors
  
• VenEconomy // PDVSA is suffering the same ill as the Venezuelan Revolution

• Chavez attacks other countries to distract attention from VZLA's problems
  
• Venezuela: Prison rights activists call for inquiry into prison deaths
  
• Odeen Ishmael // Campaign for full ratification of UNASUR's constituent treaty
  
• Golinger defends Peruvian journalist in NYC accused of being Russian spy
  
• Rusoro/PMG workers start campaign over unfavorable BCV resolution
  
• Eekhout reappears as Vive TV's new president defends community media
  
• Primero Justicia (PJ) attacks Communes Law as a return to the Stone Age
  
• ALBA supports the Yasuni-ITT initiative as climate change contribution
  
• Nelson Mezerhane attempted a banking coup using shares in Globovision
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuelans are left empty-handed
  
• Nikolas Kozloff // Oliver Stone exposes NYT's distorted LatAm coverage
  
• US Government: "Relationship with Venezuela is the toughest we have"
  
• US President Barack Obama appoints new ambassador to Caracas
  
• 190,000-barrel-per-day Petrocedeno upgrader back to normal capacity

• Oliver L Campbell // CITGO PR blunder ... pulling the wool over our eyes?
  
• Venezuelan Bishop: People's critical attitude is the key to decide elections
  
• Chris Herz // The sideshow fortune-teller peers into a ball of crystal glass
  
• VenRus' Paredes: Mibam has 83,343 hectares slotted for small mining
  
• Riot in Los Teques prison leaves six dead and fifteen wounded
  
• Humanitarian aid from Venezuela on way to Alagoas, Brazil
  
• Paraguayan President urges Congress to vote Venezuela into Mercosur
  
• Venezuela ratifies Syrian refinery deal and signs deal for olive oil technology
  
• Remains of Bolivar's Manuelita Saenz via Peru, Ecuador and Colombia
  
• President Al-Assad's visit receives wide attention in the Venezuelan media
  
• Agreements contribute to raising level of economic cooperation with Syria
  
• Oliver Stone's documentary falls flat in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: Israel and US 'empire' are enemies
  
• Caitlyn Barbee // A Time to Dance
  
• Private retailers targeted as Hugo Chavez declares 'economic war'
  
• President Chavez, Assad express support for Iran's nuclear program
  
• CITGO to fundraise for Vermont Children's Cancer Camp

• Oliver L Campbell // The dispute between ExxonMobil and Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuela dominated by, and split up into Ghettos
  
• Mark Weisbrot // Will the US ever get Latin America?
  
• Venezuela sets tariff payment deals with 32 oil companies
  
• Venezuela: 600 fishermen decry oil slick fouling Lake Maracaibo...

• Syrian President visits Caracas this Saturday ... Chavez in Ecuador!
  
• Latin Finance: Even in Venezuela there are still miners seeking to grow!
  
• Is President Chavez really going to incur the wrath of powerful friends?
  
• Health Minister climate change has spiked dengue numbers in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan MIJ Minister: UN anti-drugs report leaves out home truths
  
• FARC: Arrival of Santos brings radicalization of political struggle
  
• MAT reports production increases in Tucutunemo valley socialist farm units
  
• Chavez marks Battle of Carabobo anniversary highlighting role of army
  
• Jose Vicente Rangel: journalism in Venezuela is totally decadent
  
• National Archive launches exposition: Venezuela: Insurgent, Sovereign
  
• Iran, VZLA agree to technology transfer to build CVG downstream factory
  
• UN lauds Venezuela's achievements on fighting drug trafficking
  
• WSJ: Inflation and recession deal Venezuela a double blow...
  
• Venezuela captures drug suspect wanted by the United States
  
• VZLA Comptroller General vows to disqualify other people for public office
  
• CITGO announces successful completion of its $2.1 billion refinancing
  
• Shane Rees reveals the best-kept secret in the Caribbean

• Shane Rees // ...and God created paradise in Venezuela!
  
• Venezuelan Environment Minister attacks Crystallex over illegal mining surge
  
• PDVAL passed on to Vice Presidency for complete overhaul and re-launch
  
• New Communes law sparks debate on parallel and grassroots power
  
• Chris Herz // Halleluja ... I'm a Terrorist
  
• Venezuela has said that it will nationalize 11 US-owned oil rigs
  
• Polls & Research: Most Venezuelans want Chavez out in 2012
  
• Former Argentine ambassador speaks of alleged corruption in Venezuela
  
• CITGO resorts to bank loans after planned $1.5 billion bond issue failed
  
• Arthur Shaw: Catalina Botero clowns around at US congressional hearing
  
• VenEconomy // Lessons in Transparency in Venezuela
  
• President Hugo Chavez' ratings up, food woes dent socialist message

• Ex UN ambassador: "We will do all we can to take Chavez to The Hague"
  
• New appointments ... Juan Carlos Loyo from INTI to Agriculture Minister
  
• What does VenEconomy mean by Venezuela should follow Colombia's example?
  
• Sean Fenley // The 'buffoonization' of Hugo Chavez
  
• Fedecamaras describes as primitive the economic model of the communes
  
• Venezuela has emerged as a major departure point for cocaine trafficking
  
• Will Grant // Concern over Cuba's role in Venezuela
  
• Crystallex' partner to provide 'whatever capital needed' for gold project
  
• Chavez beefs up Plan Caura with six Russian helicopters and tactical fighting units
  
• New VenRus president gets rapturous welcome from miners, communities
  
• Venezuela prepares climate change proposals with ALBA partners
  
• Financial company treasurer gets six years ... three others to stand trial
  
• 65% of Communal Councils re-register under terms of new law
  
• Executive to send public contracts reform bill to AN to clean up sector
  
• Former anti-drugs chief tells Panorama about his arrest in Andorra
  
• Venezuela offers Brazil humanitarian aid to victims of severe flooding
  
• VZLA government to support Hidroven with US$136 million external funding

• Rusoro Mining announces $13 million second payment of loan principal
  
• Illegal gold miners being duped by con-men to get on Mibam census list
  
• First two documents from Bolivar-Miranda collection have been digitalized
  
• Comptroller General's admission: started probe of containers two years ago
  
• National Assembly to debate oil spill and clean up ops on Lake Maracaibo
  
• Venezuela: Workers' Control and contradictions of the Bolivarian Process
  
• Franz J. T. Lee // Venezuela: What should never happen in the Orinoco Delta
  
• Cautious overtures from Venezuela as Santos secures Colombia victory
  
• Venezuelan News Agency launched with face-lift but keeps ABN initials
  
• Ambassador Jorge Valero wants UN freedom of opinion relateur dismissed
  
• Catalina Botero, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, IACHR
  
• Uncertain future looms at Venezuelan television news network Globovision
  
• INTI officials inspect another farm belonging to former Ambassador Arria
  
• Caracas Stock Exchange rose 2% this week ... close to all time record
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuela should follow Colombia's example
  
• Four dead, nine wounded in disturbance on Venezuela's Coche island
  
• How long can chavismo continue to ride the wave of its own mythology
  
• Stephen Sackur provides a misleading and one-sided picture of Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan Bishops' Association (CEV) views loss of foodstuffs alarming

• International agencies fund VZLA opposition with $40-50 million annually
  
• Fred Cederholm: Moguls of the world look for an alternative to the US$
  
• ANALYSIS: Venezuelan gold mine Las Cristinas -- to see is to believe!
  
• Eight dead, 20 injured in bus accident on an Andean highway in Tachira
  
• Attacks on PDVAL are attacks on Chavez ... food probe continues
  
• VZLA food sovereignty: Three milk-processing socialist plants opened
  
• Chavez urges inventors to send in projects to make VZLA more productive
  
• Government launches grocery store network, formerly CADA supermarkets
  
• Iranian engineers plan and constructed three new dairy production units
  
• Venezuelan bank supervisor SUDEBAN prohibits 'Tax Haven' transactions
  
• Syria Assembly approves Draft Law on cooperation with Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: Colombian mercenaries plan to kill me
  
• Oliver Stone movie documentary homage to Chavez bombs in Venezuela
  
• Syria and Venezuela: Developing remarkable relations in various areas
  
• Venezuelans are making sure that they have something to show for it all
  
• Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) proposal to decriminalize abortion
  
• Venezuela Ombudswoman Gabriela Ramirez nixes Rapporteur statements

• Mining Review: Chinese pursue diamond mining agreements in Venezuela
  
• China and Venezuela on a win-win economic partnership...
  
• Chavez uses foreign reserves to honor dollars owed import companies
  
• USA grants certificates of 'honesty'' to any old anti-Chavist landing in Miami
  
• VenEconomy // Putting limits on intolerance
  
• Venezuelan Land Law reform promises "land for those who work on it"
  
• ILO to ask Venezuela to stop harassing business sector
  
• A recent interview with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela by the BBC

• Random thoughts from the arrivals gate at a lonely airstrip in Venezuela's mercury polluted south-eastern jungles
  
• Mezerhane's Globovision shares give President Chavez an ace card
  
• Government promises Banco Federal savers access to deposits next week
  
• Clandestine forgery office uncovered and dismantled in Parque Central
  
• Colombian ex-pats thinking of returning home as remittances drop in value
  
• FT interview: Chavez admits recession but convinced Venezuela will pull through
  
• Venezuelan Globovision TV boss Guillermo Zuloaga flees 'regime of terror'
  
• Victor Davis Hanson // 'Bush did it' is NOT a Foreign Policy
  
• Globovision's 400 staff will receive paychecks for at least the next 12 months
  
• Venezuela takes over bank owned by shareholder of dissident TV station
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez looks to seize banker's assets
  
• Paraguayan Senator admits talks to support VZLA Mercosur incorporation
  
• Chavez' Lines -- Goal: Communes plus Electricity!
  
• VenEconomy // Handing it the land on a silver platter
  
• Ventura wants Hugo Chavez movie mandatory viewing for high-school students
  
• Sixty-four percent of Venezuelans would like Chavez to step down
  
• Mack blasts Chavez and Castro brothers, calls for greater press freedoms
  
• Venezuela: Minamb to invest US$245 million in Yacambu-Quibor project

• President Chavez: bourgeoisie had its change to run a produce and failed
  
• Venezuelan Autoseal seat car maker expropriated and jobs guaranteed
  
• Dominica is the venue for first-ever meeting of ALBA, June 15-17
  
• Government accused of sending past-date food as humanitarian aid to Haiti
  
• Date set for trial in USA of 14 Venezuelans accused of money-laundering
  
• Banco Federal director arrested leaving the country ... will face charges
  
• President Chavez denies involvement in Banco Federal intervention
  
• UN: Venezuela generous in accepting 200,000 refugees from Colombia
  
• Anti-Chavez TV channel owner Guillermo Zuloaga flees Venezuela
  
• Ecuador's Correa criticizes the bondage in the USA of the Cuban Five
  
• New social investments or confidence within Venezuela's mining industry?
  
• Chavez' voyage to Stalinism has taken him into the Castro brothers orbit
  
• UN praises Venezuelan government's 'generosity' to Colombian refugees
  
• 500 affected by gas leak at Cefloalca pesticide factory in Villa de Cura
  
• VenEconomy // Will it be able to cope with the whole caboodle?
  
• Venezuela urges US to extradite suspected terrorist Posada Carriles
  
• Venezuela's government cranks up the pressure on 24/7 Globovision
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) $1.8 billion profits down 34% in 2009
  
• Michael Rowan // Zombies Voting
  
• Oliver Stone does Hugo Chavez ... South of the Border

• EDITORIAL: Rotten food containers present revolution with golden opportunity
  
• Grenada's NNP denies "mischief-making" in relations with Venezuela
  
• Banking Association: Banco Federal intervention nothing to do with politics
  
• Banco Federal's Mezerhane will NOT be returning to Venezuela
  
• Defiant TV boss Guillermo Zuloaga will NOT hand himself to face trial
  
• Colombian Senator fears Santos will endanger lives of hostages with adventures
  
• Spain's Prisa Group should level playing fields on Venezuela reporting
  
• OAS concerned about Chavez government attacks on Venezuela press
  
• Minamb to invest US$10 million in waterworks for La Guajira peninsula
  
• Venezuela expands power capacity by 1,087 MW in 2010
  
• VenEconomy // Wielding the truncheon and up to its neck in mire
  
• Fugitive Globovision TV tycoon denounces Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
  
• Venezuela's military ties with Cuba stir concerns in Washington D.C.
  
• 52-year-old Venezuelan thief, disguised himself as a priest to rob college
  
• Venezuelan newspaper columnist sentenced to prison for defamation
  
• US government worried about bench warrant against Guillermo Zuloaga
  
• Mack condemns Chavez for continuing to shut down Free Press in Venezuela

• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez believes only democratic socialism can save the world
  
• Venezuela takes over mid-sized Banco Federal, citing liquidity problems
  
• Foreign exchange shortage is an indicator of economic imbalance
  
• Nikolas Kozloff // Chavez' geopolitical rivalry reaching soaring new heights
  
• Venezuelan Central Bank ponders monthly limit on travelers' dollar quota
  
• SMEs: Alleged insecurity is an excuse to stop investing in Venezuela
  
• President Hugo Chavez' popularity rises on crackdown as GDP suffers
  
• President Hugo Chavez targets alcohol and smoking in Venezuela
  
• USA criticizes arrest warrant for Globovision TV's Guillermo Zuloaga
  
• IACHR urges Venezuelan government to avoid silencing critical opinions
  
• It won't help … but it takes the focus away from the real problems...
  
• Opposition in Grenada accused of smear campaign to scuttle plans to enter ALBA
  
• BCV president: effects of new currency trading will be seen end of June
  
• Jorge Rodriguez warns against triumphalism among PSUV members
  
• Chavez: Zuloaga should show his face and defend himself of charges
  
• Economic war bulletin: Chavez warns banks to tow the line
  
• 200 privatized contracting companies in PDVSA return to state control
  
• Chavez: Deceased Panorama founder "a man of his word" and "example"
  
• No news from Venezuelan delegation at Bonn climate change meeting
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis: An open letter to US Senator Le Mieux
  
• Amen, Bremont, you nailed it ... to use the jargon of the Nazarenes...

• Globovision attacks ... Maduro defends arrests of the Zuloagas
  
• Venezuelan military aircraft with three soldiers missing near Caracas
  
• Chavez' Venezuela "recalls us the times of our won dictatorship"
  
• authorities in Venezuela have issued an arrest warrant for TV boss
  
• Venezuelan model wants Swiss airline to replace 2 x 9 kilo breasts
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sings song sbout Hillary Clinton
  
• 21,601 malaria cases have been registered in Venezuela this year
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) foreign investments vindicated...
  
• The truth must not become a victim of a tyranny that poses as a democracy
  
• Chris Herz // Another disaster in the Gulf of Mexico

• White Sox Guillen has forgotten where he came from ... money talks!
  
• The enemy is NOT Washington D.C. but those who control it...
  
• Chavez to clamp down on too many beer trucks plying trade in barrios
  
• One-time anti-drugs police exec arrested for alleged money-laundering
  
• VZLA Ambassador to Spain: Diego Arria considered low grade threat...
  
• Colombians slam transfer of Bolivar/Miranda documents to national archive
  
• Attorney General puts four state prosecutors on the rotten food case
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lifts national electricity rationing
  
• Jennifer London // Look Out Hollywood. This is Hugowood!
  
• VenEconomy // For now ... as long as the Dollars last!
  
• Secretary of State Clinton has hurt possibility of improving strained relations
  
• US Senator George LeMieux: "There is a gathering storm in Venezuela"
  
• Tankers anchored after oil spill in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo
  
• Book reveals Chavez in prison ... "I saw him cry," triggers controversy
  
• Colombians do NOT need to apply for a visa to enter Venezuela...
  
• Tamsin Carlisle // Venezuela 'has world's second biggest oil reserves'

• Ambassador Tamara Kunanyakam in ridiculous claim that VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue defames Sri Lanka!
  
• Visas for Colombians dropped revealing tinkering, brownie-point chase
  
• Banking association happy with first day of new currency trading
  
• Venezuela condemns sanctions against Iran letting Israel off the hook
  
• INTI president Juan Carlos Loyo denies takeover of productive farms...
  
• Julio Escalona // Rachel Corrie
  
• Venezuela bond market restarts, with limitations
  
• Israel massacres, kills, doesn't comply with United Nations resolutions
  
• Reporters Without Borders criticizes Venezuela's Noticiero Digital probe
  
• Venezuelan fisherman smuggled 57.6 kg of marijuana into Trinidad
  
• President Hugo Chavez eyes Venezuela's biggest beer producer
  
• President Hugo Chavez' foreign exchange plan aims to lift the Bolivar
  
• VenEconomy // Government celebrates inflation instead of acting against it
  
• Grenada's Prime Minister says $6 million donated by Venezuela NOT corrupt
  
• Paraguayan senators question Chavez' commitment to democracy
  
• United States' War on Terrorism is crooked, corrupt, and hypocritical...
  
• Venezuelan government denies any harassment against the media
  
• Chavez-Ahmadinejad coziness spells misery for Venezuelans
  
• SEBIN investigating existence of mafia working with corrupt companies
  
• US policy towards Venezuela has been a "move the goalposts" policy

• Chavez: state banks not doing enough to finance production projects
  
• PDVAL officials arrested in container scandal blow whistle on mafia
  
• Diego Arria received like royalty ... slams Spanish government silence
  
• National Assembly ready to pass the lands and agrarian development bill
  
• White Sox' Oswaldo Guillen worried about Venezuela's state of affairs
  
• Clinton talks tax to Latin America, saying rich must pay their share
  
• Venezuela to investigate website criticizing the Chavez government
  
• Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela will stand up for their sovereign rights
  
• Venezuela: Two more food company managers arrested over rotten food
  
• Official Gazette: Venezuela extends electricity rationing until August
  
• VenEconomy // The "Revolution's" investments in Venezuela
  
• Firebombs thrown at offices of private Venezuelan media conglomerate
  
• Significant slowdown as consumer prices in Venezuela rose 2.6% in May
  
• Venezuela's Central Bank to relaunch market for currency exchange
  
• Crystallex giving China a two-thirds interest in Las Cristinas for a song...
  
• Let's step back and try to get an overall picture of the September race...

• PSUV deputy Carlos Escarra dubs eternal hunger striker a "blackmailer"
  
• Colombians need visa to enter VZLA by plane ... unexpected, unexplained
  
• Venezuela begins new forex system based on price of sovereign bonds
  
• Venezuela says private banks support new foreign exchange market
  
• Access to foreign currency to be restricted to prevent speculation
  
• Uruguayan Defense Minister kicks off official visit to Venezuela
  
• Fred Cederholm // And that's the way it is … or is it?
  
• PSUV leader Carlos Escarra slams Colombia's out-of-date voting system
  
• PSUV candidate, Cardenas represents Venezuela at OAS assembly in Lima
  
• BCV launches foreign currency bond trading system ... will it do?
  
• PDVAL president high on rhetoric low on mea culpa and rectification
  
• Chinese distribution chains in Venezuela included in government intervention
  
• AN committee hosts meeting between Polar Company and ex-workers
  
• Venezuela to open new central bank-run currency market on Wednesday
  
• Venezuelan authorities arrest more ex-officials in rotten food scandal
  
• Crystallex International's Las Cristinas saga continues...

Telesur's Izarra high praise for correspondent sailing with freedom flotilla

Chaderton Matos chief PSUV candidate to Latin American Parliament

Former Mibam Minister sees hope for heavy industry recovery in Chinese JV

Economic war bulletin: Sooner or later Mendozas must buy maize from State

Chavez: Electoral campaign to promote agrarian reform successes

Socialist milk processing plant sets the example for expropriated factories

Philadelphia: Petty's Island cleanup progressing; nature returning

Venezuelan government to spend US$82 million on Chinese K-8 jets

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez decrees seizures of more companies

Venezuelan hunger striker Angela Brito's health is deteriorating

Ilan Stavans // The Novelists and the Dictators

Mary Anastasia O'Grady // Chavismo meets the market

President Hugo Chavez urges probe of critical website over column

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez salutes Tigers' Armando Galaragga

United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) gets ready for the Polls

Venezuelan government takes over archive of Simon Bolivar's documents

Venezuela's economic collapse is worse than the crash of Greece

Venezuela's ability to take on additional commitments is reaching a limit

Venezuela's Chavez the less convincing leader for Paraguayan 'twitters'

VenEconomy // Chavez' 'dead-on-arrival' Bolivar-Dollar regime

Nicolas Maduro recommends that the US looks for terrorism from the inside

Environment ministry Minamb to invest US$459 million in projects this year

Crystallex forms strategic partnership with China Railway for Las Cristinas

• Venezuela needs to explain brief of new Center for Situational Study (Cesna)
  
• Editor Miguel Salazar replies to Chavez: Time on his side ... time to think twice
  
• Chavez wants banking association show of support for new currency control
  
• Untouchable PDVSA chief declared blameless for container food scandal
  
• President criticizes delay in publicizing Venezuelan Coffee Corporation
  
• Venezuela leads field handing Haiti certificate cancelling $395 million oil debt

• Western mining cos remain out of favor; but different story for Russians
  
• Rusoro restructures US$60+ million Senior Secured Exchangeable Loan
  
• Venezuela: 9,865 vehicles were assembled in April and 8,504 cars in May
  
• Venezuela spent 25% less in arms in 2009; Brazil increases spending 16%
  
• Iran and Venezuela call for an end to Israeli atrocities against Gazans
  
• Venezuela affected by shortage of US$ and serious decline in investment
  
• It's war between government and main economic forces ...
  
• President Chavez clarifies: government will work with "honest" private sector
  
• VZLA government pursues rotting food wastage as more cases emerge
  
• Parallel currency market ready to kick-start amid confusion, skepticism
  
• Venezuelan Foreign Minister begs to differ from Bill Clinton over Haiti
  
• President Chavez announces joint ventures with private supermarket chains
  
• National Assembly summons Polar directors to talk about debts to ex-workers
  
• President Chavez: "We are in an Economic War"
  
• Armando Galarraga's failed attempt to a Perfect Game
  
• VenEconomy // This is no time for lamentations
  
• Chavez foes say barring of candidates is government attempt to hurt opposition in election
  
• Fixed Broadband grew 23.3% during 2009 to 1,236,222 connections
  
• Venezuela has poured hundreds of millions of US$ into social programs
  
• Yanomami representatives have been lobbying to their blood returned
  
• Venezuela: Orinoco oil upgraders at about 513,000 bpd = 82% capacity
  
• Economic variables point to another devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar

• Miraflores Palace dread of suicide bombers ... army commander booted out
  
• Eva Golinger at the cutting edge of revolutionary pole of the class struggle
  
• No facts presented showing Eva Golinger is wrong on Tamil Tigers
  
• Chavez orders probe into squandered tonnes of rotting food at customs
  
• Venezuelan reactions to Colombia's Santos' victory mute and on hold
  
• CNE opens enrolment of candidates ... six ministers step down
  
• Sutiss trade union: Sidor debt to workers at complete standstill
  
• Chavez secures salaries for newly graduated community nurses
  
• Former Polar Company workers seek compensation as tensions heighten
  
• Reality unexpectedly often offers solutions to insoluble problems...
  
• Guyana and Venezuela working to commence direct flights...
  
• VenEconomy // As time goes by...
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defends record as leader
  
• Canadian authorities seize 343 kilos of cocaine in container from Venezuela
  
• Chavez receives support of socialists in relations with Colombia
  
• Dominican Republic wants to speed up sale of refinery to Venezuela
  
• The 70% Solution: Venezuela's El Rey 'Gran Saman' Chocolate
  
• Venezuelans release book on investigative journalism; national contest
  
• Roberto Giusti // From Santos to Chavez: "Thank you, compadre!"
  
• Foreign Exchange Board (Cadivi) chops allocation of foreign exchange
  
• VHeadline's Kenneth T. Tellis asks: Is, rather, Eva Golinger a 'Bride of Tyranny'?

• 'Bride of Venezuela' Eva Golinger misinterprets Solidarity: Support Tamils NOT Sri Lanka's Criminal War Government
  
• President Chavez puts GDP drop in perspective forecasting 2010 take-off
  
• Tourism Minister needs more than good wishes in latest boring reboot
  
• BCV in talks with Bloomberg to buy exchange rate technology
  
• Rusoro Mining Ltd records net income of US$42.6 million during Q1 2010
  
• Fred Cederholm: I shouldn't still be alive today, but I'm so glad that I am...
  
• The Washington Post: Venezuela ... the implosion of Chavez continues
  
• Venezuela denounces "terrorist and criminal nature" of Israel's government
  
• Kourosh Ziabati // What if Iran had carried out the Gaza carnage?
  
• Venezuelan government condemns Israelis ... Telesur journalist in custody
  
• Venezuela's PSUV takes on Fedecamaras, Consecomercio ... and Israel
  
• Local fishermen in Amuay Bay waiting for clean up Paraguana oil spill
  
• Grenada wants maritime delimitation talks with Venezuela ... to join ALBA?
  
• Canadian NGO requests Venezuela to accept Tamils detained in Indonesia
  
• Oil leaks in Gulf of Mexico and Niger Delta: Double standard world racism
  
• What are Chavez and Ahmadinejad planning for The Long War?
  
• VenEconomy // Indiscriminate Witch Hunt
  
• Venezuela's Chavez backing leftist guerrillas in Mexico
  
• Venezuela: Fedecamaras business leaders deny plotting against Chavez
  
• No longer doctors, nurses and teachers, Cuba trains Venezuelan military
  
• Oliver Stone wants people to think of Hugo Chavez as less of a 'Clown'