• 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• PSUV leader Carlos Escarra slams Colombia's out-of-date voting system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...