• 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