• 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...