• Central Bank (BCV) Nelson Merentes: "We are not financing Sidor..."
  
• NGO criticizes heavy workload of state prosecutors probing police abuses
  
• Laboratory of cocaine presumably from Venezuela dismantled in Spain
  
• Washington Post: Colombia evidence against Venezuela is compelling
  
• US Southern Command accepts Colombia's evidence as true
  
• Colombian Foreign Minister disappointed at results of Unasur meeting
  
• Helmerich & Payne reports $36.7 million 3Q loss after Venezuela rig seizure
  
• Bolivar would be outraged by notion of Hugo Chavez as his political heir
  
• VZLA/Colombia rift: UNASUR unable to reach consensus calls for summit
  
• Pablo Rojas Mejia // What to do about Chavez and the FARC...
  
• Colombia claims Venezuela walked out from consensus document...
  
• Venezuela will protect Colombian refugees despite diplomatic spat
  
• South African woman imprisoned in VZLA could be out on parole soon
  
• VenEconomy // Pudreval is just getting worse and worse!
  
• Ukraine security forces seize 1,192.95 kilos of cocaine in VZLA shipment
  
• VZLA hosts third OAS electoral meeting with 40 OAS members attending
  
• Venezuela-China talks on cooperation agreements in energy, mining...
  
• BP negotiating deal that could see it sell off some of its VZLA assets
  
• 'North of the Border' ... a review of the Gilbert Hurricane documentary
  
• Chavez: Colombia's Uribe's headed straight to the garbage heap of history
  
• What's behind the Colombia-Venezuela 'Battle Royale'
  
• New axis would consist of VZLA, Russia, China and the Islamic Republic
  
• China to help VZLA build three 300 megawatt electricity generating plants
  
• No holds barred in Venezuela opposition channel's criticism of Chavez
  
• Venezuelan author Maria Gabriela Madrid to be new editor at Voices de la Luna magazine
  
• National Lands Institute (INTI) and GNB troops seize Zuloaga ranch
  
• Ukraine and Belarus agree on terms for Venezuelan oil transit
  
• Spanish telcom giant Telefonica: $1.8 billion is tied up in Venezuela

• Venezuela's Ambassador to Colombia, Gustavo Marquez: Venezuelan Proposal in UNASUR seeks to turn South America into a peace zone
  
• Colgate-Palmolive: The tooth(paste) ... and nothing but the tooth(paste)!
  
• Venezuelan oil exports dive 6.4% in June compared with June 2009
  
• Foreign Minister Maduro: VZLA suffers "serious threats" from Colombia
  
• VZLA economy out of control ... President Chavez becoming desperate
  
• Stuart Grudgings // What is driving Venezuela-Colombia dispute?
  
• US General urges Venezuela to probe charges of rebel FARC/ELN haven
  
• Julio Escalona // South-South
  
• Central Bank president confers with private sector to improve SITME
  
• Latin American social movements back VZLA's proposal for peace
  
• Statistics chief Elias Eljuri gives update on Venezuelan millennium goals
  
• Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) accuses Sumate of being agent of USA
  
• Autopsy: Cause of Liberator Simon Bolivar's death could remain a mystery
  
• BP in talks over sale of oil projects to its Russian venture TNK-BP
  
• Guillermo I. Martinez // Hugo Chavez' antics speak to his unpredictability
  
• Colombia-Venezuela diplomatic rift will test effectiveness of Unasur
  
• Mass murder suspect may have escaped to Venezuela by boat
  
• Venezuela to sell foreign government $-denominated bonds domestically
  
• Scott Adamson // Duno out of her league
  
• VenEconomy // He went, ratified his position, and vanquished
  
• Twelve Latin American ministers to try to mend Venezuela-Colombia ties
  
• Opposition Voluntad Popular party demands prison for PDVAL "big fish"
  
• Michael Rowan / Chavez and Ming
  
• Julio Escalona // Finance vs. Revolution

• Venezuela's indulgence towards the FARC has long been an open secret
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez is angry at the United States ... again!
  
• Colombian President Uribe proposes FARC/ELN surrender in Venezuela
  
• VZLA "concerned" over Colombia's "direct threat to stability and security"
  
• US ambassador-designate to Venezuela vows to support democracy
  
• Venezuelan government deficit hit US$2.9 billion in first quarter 2010
  
• Airlines ask VZLA authorities to speed up foreign exchange allocation
  
• Bermudez and Uribe blow hole in Venezuelan peace plan for Colombia
  
• Caracas DC Governor's new promise to sanitize Guaire river by 2014
  
• Cardinal's visit to AN was serene and frank, despite conflicting accounts
  
• VZLA indian chief appeals to Bolivian President Morales for solidarity
  
• US and Colombia poised to invade VZLA to crush alleged rebel bases
  
• No one does political theater like Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez
  
• Not the first time that the BCV has financed the Chavez administration
  
• Cardinal Urosa ratifies criticism of Chavez before the Venezuelan Congress
  
• Venezuela apprehends six alleged far-right Colombian paramilitaries
  
• Globovision lawyer threatened with up to three years in prison
  
• Venezuela's global bonds rise despite tension with the United States
  
• Archdiocese urges prayers for peace between Colombia and Venezuela
  
• BP unlikely to sell Venezuelan assets to cover costs for strategic reasons
  
• Chavez' threat to cut off US oil supplies falls flat; Fails to drive up prices
  
• Santos' inauguration will cause "scandal" in VZLA-Colombian relations
  
• Venezuelan ambassador to Colombia says "Colombia is two-faced"
  
• Venezuela: We cannot sail towards socialism on the capitalist Ship of State

• Venezuelan Development Bank penalized for alleged link with Iranian plan
  
• UNDP: Inequality is worse in public services, water supply and housing
  
• Guyana President defends Petrocaribe, confirming observer status in ALBA
  
• RCTV legislative candidate Rodriguez accuses government officials of treason
  
• Venezuela's Maduro close on the heels of Santos in SA diplomacy race
  
• Venezuela's UN Ambassador: The FARC is not WMDs to justify incursion
  
• Cardinal Urosa has a change of heart and will meet legislators after all
  
• Colombia's Uribe rants at Senator Cordoba and visiting Euro-deputies
  
• Oliver L Campbell // Is peak oil imminent?
  
• Venezuela sends more troops to its border with Colombia as row escalates
  
• Scot jailed in VZLA has hopes of early release dashed by mistranslation
  
• VZLA: The departure point for 41% of all cocaine shipments to Europe
  
• Gustavo Silva Cano // Chavez' misdeeds must be revealed without hesitation
  
• Chavez uses Colombia feud to divert attention from domestic woes
  
• Colombian minister says no plan to stop gas supply to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // Contradictions of a Communist Hegemony
  
• Catholic Church urges peace between Colombia and Venezuela
  
• Colombian-Venezuelan trade could drop as low as 85%
  
• Timothy V. Gatto // Will the United States annex Latin America?
  
• Colombia's provocation against Venezuelan -- support the revolution!
  
• Venezuela: Haven For Terrorists?
  
• Venezuelan President harboring FARC: Brazilian presidential candidate
  
• Venezuelan ambassador presents letter on Colombia to United Nations
  
• Venezuela beefing up its troop presence along the border with Colombia
  
• Daniel Wallis // Will the Colombia-Venezuela crisis worsen?

• United States at war in Venezuela ... Chinese threatening to pull the plug
  
• Chavez' Threat: Venezuela will cease all exports of oil to the United States
  
• Rodriguez: "Colombia's foul, vulgar and offensive pretext to attack VZLA"
  
• Colombians and Venezuelans outraged with conflict between their countries
  
• The United States of America rules out military action against Venezuela
  
• Chavez going through predictable scenario... threat more bark than bite
  
• Colombian suppliers concerned about Venezuelan +$1.5 billion debts
  
• Russian Rosoboronexport: VZLA to buy several military transport planes
  
• Fred Cederholm // Last Friday's email was different…
  
• Wikileaks war logs give Colombia and Venezuela room for thought...
  
• Tachira State Governor Perez Vivas: Chavez' foreign policy "erroneous"
  
• Chavez warns the United States of America against supporting Colombia
  
• Chavez warns Zulia &Tachira State Governors against selling sovereignty
  
• Mary Anastasia O'Grady // where the FARC goes to fatten up -- Venezuela
  
• Carl Packman // Why I stopped supporting Hugo Chavez...
  
• "Boys, we're not in the sixties" Venezuela's Chavez tells Colombia's FARC
  
• VZLA/Colombia conflict "weakens" South America's image, says Brazil
  
• Elyssa Pachico // Venezuela become an example of 21st century failure
  
• Basic Industries & Mines (Mibam) Minister to sign three mining agreements
  
• United Socialist Party of Venezuela chided for internal divisions in Zulia
  
• CVG Ferrominera Orinoco to start new iron ore concentrate plant soon
  
• Venezuela-Russia VenRus JV will NOT develop gold mining in Guariche
  
• Venezuela's Milka Duno may have to return to day job if IndyCar has it's way

• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez threatens to suspend all oil supplies to the United States of America

• Carlos Pietri // Taking a good look at Colombia's accusations against VZLA
  
• Alfredo Bremont // The Empire's weak spot is the economy
  
• Will the United States of America hand Chavez a License to Kill?
  
• Caught red-handed: Bad boy Chavez up to his eyeballs in narco-terrorism
  
• Eva Golinger // United States and Colombia plan to attack Venezuela
  
• Hugo Chavez warns of a regional war with US-backed Colombia
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez reports US is hatching an attempt on his life
  
• UNASUR foreign ministers to discuss Venezuela-Colombia crisis
  
• Venezuela in ill-tempered response to Bogota as diplomatic row worsens
  
• Tell Venezuelan President "Mauricio" to take this information seriously
  
• The Colombia dictatorship is totally North American in essence, operation
  
• Chris Herz // Chavez and Churchill?
  
• Class struggle and consciousness in Venezuela: Some socialist reflections

• Venezuela's Vice President confirms Army deployment on Colombia border
  
• Venezuelan oil basket rose by 64 cents this week and ended at $68.40
  
• The United States sides with Colombia in escalating row with Venezuela
  
• Chavez, FARC and Colombia: Decision time for the Obama administration
  
• The United States urges Venezuela to cooperate on FARC investigation
  
• Latin American leaders draw their opinions on the VZLA-Colombia conflict
  
• Yukpas pressure TSJ to come clean on Chief Sabino Romero trial procedure
  
• Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister takes on VZLA to win regional influence
  
• Venezuela's Chavez responds to Colombian "declaration of hostilities."..
  
• OAS Ambassador dismisses Colombian evidence as media circus...
  
• Venezuela could be hauled before the International Criminal Tribunal...
  
• Venezuela's opposition is in two minds about rupture with Colombia
  
• Foreign Minister wants urgent meeting of Unasur to debate aggression
  
• Integration & Convergence for Health in Latin America and Caribbean
  
• VenEconomy // Countdown to parliamentary elections ... cause for concern
  
• Portuguese concern over VZLA stance towards Roman Catholic Church
  
• Ecuador criticizes OAS Insulza for the mishandling of Caracas/Bogota rift
  
• Evidence of 87 "active" and "consolidated" FARC/ELN camps in Venezuela

• Otto J. Reich // 21st-century socialist" Hugo Chavez is "a hooligan"...
  
• Venezuela cuts ties with Colombia over FARC rebels. Prelude to war?
  
• OAS Insulza urges VZLA and Colombia to calm down, find a solution...
  
• Colombia rules out deployment of troops to the border with Venezuela
  
• Chavez breaks diplomatic ties with Colombia over FARC allegations

• Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez challenges Hollywood's Oliver Stone: "Come Live With Us in Venezuela..."
  
• Chavez: VZLA once acted like a sub-empire towards Caribbean countries
  
• Biggest devil to overcome is effect of mercury used in illegal gold-mining
  
• AG defends government right to appoint representative to Globovision
  
• Guyana President's visit to VZLA ratifies amicable Essequibo mediation
  
• Venezuela expects more of the same as Uribe presents his case at the OAS
  
• PSUV deputy on the heels of opposition TV talk show star in Tachira
  
• Simon Bolivar's eldest direct line descendant opposed the exhumation
  
• Fruit and vegetable exports to Aruba have been restricted by Venezuela
  
• Akanksha Awal // When Hugo met Oliver...
  
• Colombia recalls Venezuela ambassador Maria Luisa Chiappe to Bogota...
  
• Engine failure blamed for VZLA Air Force K-8 plane crash in Barquisimeto
  
• President Chavez says Venezuela can satisfy Guyana's fuel needs
  
• President Chavez buries bad news by disinterring a national icon
  
• VenEconomy // Bolivarian "revolutionaries" grabbing what belongs to others
  
• Colombian farmers denounce armed police raid from Venezuela
  
• Arthur Shaw // Milos Alcalay is the fraud ... not Eva Golinger!
  
• Venezuelan women carrying US$372,786 in cash arrested in Mexico...
  
• HRW criticizes Venezuelan office that will monitor and restrict information
  
• Wuhan Iron & Steel snaps up Venezuelan ore at $59 million discount
  
• Get tough on Hugo Chavez, GOP senators tell Hillary Clinton
  
• There is not enough 'freedom of expression' in VZLA, archbishop laments
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will visit Cuba on July 26
  
• Time magazine claims Simon Bolivar's exhumation is a political strategy
  
• Chavez to revoke licence of a TV station run by the Roman Catholic Church
  
• Venezuelan arrests 21 police officers for helping Mexican drug traffickers
  
• United States encourages dialogue between Venezuela and Colombia
  
• US State Department will keep a "watchful eye" on the Globovision case
  
• Unemployment rate in Venezuela up 8.4% in June; 1,103,396 jobless
  
• Patrick J. O'Donoghue // Contradictions in Sri Lankan anti-imperialism

• Suspected J.F.K. bomber filed reports for Iranian ambassador to Venezuela
  
• Ecuador's OAS ambassador denies resignation after Venezuela pressure
  
• President Chavez blaming "enemies" for the OPEC nation's problems
  
• ECLAC anticipates three percent contraction of Venezuelan economy
  
• IACHR asks VZLA to report on protection measures for Globovision CEO
  
• What does the Venezuelan Air Force know about UFOs and alien life?
  
• Iranian and Venezuelan officials discuss transportation cooperation
  
• Venezuela loses a recently acquired Chinese K-8 plane in a weird crash
  
• Chavez' macabre obsession and the state of the Venezuelan economy
  
• Venezuela's Forex board cuts allocations; purchasing power falls 6.2% in 2009
  
• State-owned Chinese refiners increase oil imports from VZLA by 170%
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' claim over Globovision called 'absurd'
  
• Venezuela's Globovision president wins Freedom of the Press Grand Prize
  
• NGO refuses "abuse and unlawfulness" of Globovision announcement...
  
• Venezuela's new foreign exchange system harmed by shortage of bonds
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuelan government between a rock and a hard place
  
• Venezuelans admit to marijuana trafficking; Five fined $50,000 each...
  
• Cocaine prices reach record levels as smuggling routes are closed...
  
• VZLA drug trade booms; Chavez has totally lost control over traffickers
  
• Venezuelan President accuses Colombian counterpart of "playing victim"
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // A Colombian CONTRADICTION
  
• Austin Bay // Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his Caribbean war...
  
• VenEconomy // Chavez' communist process has everything to lose...
  
• VenEconomy // Open secret that narco-terrorists move about as they please
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to Nigeria says will train 180 Nigerians in 2011

• Electoral Council (CNE) will penalize disapproving foreign observers
  
• Spanish FM to try to convince Venezuela to allow electoral observers
  
• President Chavez to appoint member of Globovision's board of directors
  
• NGO asks President Hugo Chavez to accept visit by a UN rapporteur
  
• Revolutionary anti-imperialist forces will find a new friend in Desi Bouterse
  
• Former UN ambassador Alcalay: Eva Golinger is "an out-and-out fraud"
  
• President Chavez defends Petrocaribe program, slams former oil policies
  
• Transport Minister promises police presence in Caracas metro stations
  
• Abraham Cooper & Harold Brackman // The trouble with Chavismo
  
• Venezuelan mining communities still waiting for change in gold trading tariffs
  
• New BCV resolution on gold trading could be 50% domestic-50% export
  
• Cardinal snubs National Assembly ... charged atmosphere in and around
  
• PSUV military expert: Colombian President's FARC accusations are "old hat"
  
• Chavez: Failed Banco Federal owner's properties could go to pay pensions
  
• Minamb assigns US$6.6 million budget to draw up water management plan
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez says oil prices still low; wants $80 minimum
  
• Venezuelan Bishops decry Chavez' "unjust" anti-Catholic aggression
  
• Non-government organizations are a target of the revolutionaries' fury
  
• VenEconomy // The Venezuelan revolution is springing leaks everywhere
  
• No revolution without solidarity; VZLA and the struggle for sovereignty

• Cardinal Urosa Savino suggests "peaceful and respectful dialogue"
  
• Venezuelan diplomat accuses El Pais of publishing false information
  
• "Lot of prestige would be lost in the event of breaking with the Holy See"
  
• Allegations of Dutch helicopter violating VZLA airspace are unfounded
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warns of US military escalation...
  
• Leopoldo Lopez' impudence has reached such degree of cynicism...
  
• When solutions don't materialize ... we can always blame the President
  
• Jesus A. Rivas // where has the United States "left" gone?
  
• El Cedral cattle farm improving after two years of agrarian reform
  
• President Hugo Chavez continues campaign against Cardinal and bishops
  
• Simon Bolivar's exhumation gives rise to contradicting emotions in Venezuela
  
• Three Colombian journalists and driver deported back to Colombia
  
• Dutch Minister's stopover ends airspace conflict ... for the time being
  
• Rickey Singh // The missing Obama-CARICOM meeting
  
• Colombia demands OAS action on supposed Venezuelan guerrilla threat
  
• Most Venezuelans recoil from the idea of Cuban-style State control...

• Quest for gold covering search for strategic control of uranium resources?
  
• Venezuela's Maduro agrees to make no more unfounded accusations...
  
• Detained Colombian journalist complains of intimidation in Venezuela
  
• Intelligence operations intensified by sneaky and vicious Vatican spies
  
• President Hugo Chavez to finance US peace organizations via CITGO?
  
• Alex Main // Latin America and Caribbean: CELAC steams ahead
  
• Oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico threatening all plant, animal and human life

• Venezuela recalls Bogota Ambassador Gustavo Marquez to Caracas
  
• VZLA recalls Vatican Ambassador Ivan Rincon Urdaneta for consultations
  
• DISINFORMATION: President Chavez profoundly confused by Colombia
  
• Venezuela opens Simon Bolivar's tomb to examine remains for foul play
  
• Venezuelan oil price rose to $67.76 during week ending July 16 from $64.42
  
• Man sentenced to one year and eleven months for illegal mining in Caura
  
• Dutch-Venezuelan relations in the Caribbean continue to deteriorate
  
• Outgoing Alvaro Uribe creates more friction with Venezuela over FARC
  
• Globovision 24/7 TV gets it wrong in another PDVAL rotting food "scoop"...
  
• Archbishop of Coro agrees with review of State-Vatican agreement
  
• VZLA travel agencies want meeting with tourism authorities for clarification
  
• Liberator Simon Bolivar's remains exhumed to clarify real cause of death
  
• Leopoldo Lopez // Why Oliver Stone is wrong about Venezuela...
  
• IAPA reports on "criminal persecution" against Guillermo Zuloaga
  
• President Hugo Chavez: I will never lend myself to chasing anybody
  
• President Chavez: Owner of opposition TV Globovision must face justice
  
• Chavez says brokerage firm Econoinvest was a "den of gangsters"
  
• VZLA's National Assembly (AN) subpoenas Cardinal Urosa Savino
  
• Defense Committee: US aircraft flying over Colombia-Venezuela border
  
• Cardinal Urosa Savino denies authorship of messages posted on Twitter
  
• Central Bank: New forex system mirrors the real forex market in Venezuela
  
• Press & Society Institute (IPYS) refutes government "smear campaign"
  
• CAF estimates the Latin American economy will grow 4.5% by year's end
  
• Electoral Council (CNE) bans Chilean Senators as electoral observers
  
• China helps VZLA to boost agro-industrial projects in Orinoco Oil Belt
  
• Chavez orders State Governors to focus exclusively on parliamentarian vote
  
• Chavez feeling heat of international and domestic criticism on wide front

• Venezuela's bicentenary stores network notches up 70% sales growth
  
• VZLA Immigration rounds up 61 undocumented Colombians in Maracaibo
  
• THE ECONOMIST: Venezuela's politics ... Commune-ism
  
• Syria and Venezuela are bolstering tourism cooperation...
  
• President Chavez warns frictions might arise in relations with Washington
  
• Ideological power of Hugo Chavez and his followers is now past its peak
  
• Colombia has proof that FARC leaders are hiding out in Venezuela
  
• Andres Oppenheimer // Hugo Chavez might keep Congress despite vote
  
• Mark Weisbrot // What Hugo Chavez could teach Obama...
  
• Rusoro Mining's GM says no reason to envy Las Cristinas gold mining
  
• Chavez asks: What is the Dutch Antilles? ... 21st century colonialism
  
• Chavez orders review into concordat between Vatican and Venezuelan State
  
• Sucre trading currency favors exporters living in ALBA countries
  
• Pena Esclusa charged with possession of explosives and conspiracy
  
• Chavez asessing Santos' invitation ... security major issue
  
• Docs reveal multimillion-dollar funding to journalists and media in VZLA
  
• Venezuela's steel industry says imports to increase in 2nd half 2010
  
• Venezuela trade with Colombia depends on Juan Manuel Santos' attitude
  
• Ray Walser // Dealing with the Axis of Hugo requires honesty and vigilance
  
• Laboring under a cloud of violence: union clashes are on the rise in Venezuela

• EDITORIAL: Left-wing infantilism is harming Venezuela ... a lot!
  
• Chavez asks Foreign Ministry to review agreement with the Vatican
  
• Agriculture & Lands (MAT) Minister denies outbreak of equine encephalitis
  
• USA says willing to deepen counter-narcotics cooperation with Venezuela
  
• Conindustria: Foreign exchange system affects 96% of Venezuelan industries
  
• Michael Rowan // Chavez' revolution is heading to the trash bin of history
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // Why is Chavez being judged by a different set of rules?
  
• Carlos Pietri // VenEconomy and Venezuela's basic industries
  
• Protest to Netherlands over three illegal flights into Venezuelan air space
  
• AN thinking to call Cardinal Jorge Urosa to officially lodge his objections
  
• Ex-miners said to be happy with cash for mining reconversion scheme
  
• Tachira farmers on strike against agrarian authority bureaucracy
  
• Venezuela condemns the Netherlands for 'provocative' military flights
  
• The Dutch Defense Ministry rubbishes Venezuelan intrusion accusation
  
• Venezuela's bishops lament "violence and corruption" in their nation
  
• Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez: A Convergence of Conmen?
  
• Venezuelan agriculture industry's woes continue to mount under constraints
  
• Jonathan Harwood // Conspiracy theories behind the BP oil spill
  
• Globovision chief Guillermo Zuloaga vows to stay critical of Hugo Chavez
  
• Hugo Chavez is right to defend himself from Cardinal Urosa's vicious attacks

• China Aviation Industry Corporation seals aircraft deal with Venezuela
  
• 1.4 pounds of brown heroin found in guitars shipped from Venezuela
  
• Chavez' Lines -- Oh Cardinal, If Christ will see you!
  
• VenEconomy // The Revolution's education rip-off
  
• Venezuela: Public expenditure dropped 7.7% in the first half of 2010
  
• VZLA Bolivarian Revolution: "Our inspiration comes from historical struggles"

• Government gold-mining policy dominated by improvisation, incoherence
  
• Big deal! What's $13,193,000,000,000? What's another $1,600,000,000,000?
  
• Chavez is a dangerous tyrant who threatens the security of the United States
  
• Growing lack of recognition of Venezuelan diplomacy in the Caribbean
  
• CADIVI president Manuel Barroso strikes off 180,000 for US$ overdrafts
  
• Agriculture Minister: Venezuelan milk production up 50% since 1999
  
• No let-up as President Chavez and Cardinal Urosa continue in the ring
  
• VZLA Judiciary rejects bishops' political stance against state institutions
  
• CVG-Environment Ministry kick off assessment technical committee
  
• Lisa Blackmore // Caracas' architecture -- from decadence to decay
  
• Scotsman faces death at hands of gangsters in Venezuelan jail

• EDITORIAL: Catholic Church in Venezuela continues to disappoint...
  
• Oliver L Campbell // Investment dispute between ExxonMobil and VZLA
  
• Is there any justice in France for those who are NOT French?
  
• MIJ Minister calls on Venezuelans to close ranks against violence
  
• Up to six million Venezuelans at risk for contracting Chagas disease
  
• VenEconomy // Another of the Venezuelan Revolution's failures...
  
• Venezuelan police rescue 7-year-old girl; kidnappers had severed a finger
  
• President Chavez asks God to pardon "lying" Cardinal Jorge Urosa
  
• VZLA wary of Colombia's president-elect ... may do Washington's bidding
  
• Anti-Chavez media mogul Guillermo Zuloaga seeks international justice
  
• Argentinean paper Clarin reveals bribery to export goods to Venezuela
  
• Guyana recommits to peaceful resolution of border issue with Venezuela

• Mining Minister Jose Khan hints turnaround in gold mining resolution
  
• Bolivar State Governor Francisco Rangel Gomez in Portugal on business
  
• AN deputy: Communal parliament maximum expression of popular power
  
• Venezuelan AN tackles corrupt university thesis orders and sales
  
• Famous UK chocolate man under attack from Venezuelan ex-pat
  
• Venezuela's inflation hits 16.% in first six months; higher than y-o-y 10.8%
  
• Spanish PP carries anti-Venezuelan motion in EU parliament
  
• Spanish Foreign Minister secures freedom for 52 prisoners in Cuba
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' takeover plans hitting a hurdle
  
• A Revolution in Venezuela with assassin bugs, mosquitoes and lice
  
• Venezuelan orchestras could soon match the world's best ensembles
  
• Venezuelans under arrest for allegedly trying to 'Twitter' a run on banks
  
• Dissidents demand prison for thosee responsible for spoiled food
  
• Haitian President Rene Preval cancels July 12 official visit to Venezuela
  
• 2,500 Venezuelans jobs at risk in gov't crackdown on currency market

• Experts from 11 countries meet in Caracas to discuss money laundering
  
• Venezuela's inflation amounts to 16.3% for the first six months of 2010
  
• Argentinean exports to Venezuela: Court to track bribes allegations
  
• Dissenter: "Cuban mafia" retains food containers of state-run PDVAL
  
• Venezuelan cardinal target of 'verbal aggression,' says Vatican paper
  
• Gold-traffickers operating in Venezuela should face international tribunals
  
• Rusoro ... Khan could announce friendly measures at VenRus anniversary
  
• Interior & Justice (MIJ) Minister denies terrorist kidnapping in Guatemala
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) recovers stolen oil equipment
  
• PSUV's Cilia Flores challenges opposition to declare campaign sources
  
• Salvadorian hit-man extradited to Cuba to answer hotel bombing charges
  
• Colombia-VZLA relations NOT solved by courtesy visit but serious talks
  
• Cardinal Urosa repeats: Hugo Chavez is heading towards dictatorship
  
• Right-wing euro-deputies lead debate on defending jailed Judge Afiuni
  
• Supporters of Yukpa Chief Sabino Romero hold vigil at TSJ in Caracas
  
• Nil Nikandrov // What is CIA trying to hide in Colombia?
  
• REICH & PERDUE: Venezuelan socialism courts an invisible backhand
  
• Venezuelan Saul Jose Hernandez Sanchez who pleaded guilty to charges
  
• VenEconomy // where are the Dollars? That's easy: there aren't any...
  
• European Parliament to take renewed stance on VZLA human rights...
  
• Congress to investigate Salvadoran terrorist and VZLA dissenters links
  
• Colombia wants to discuss security and trade with Venezuela
  
• Cardinal Urosa: Venezuelan government wants to impose dictatorship
  
• Appropriate and inconsiderate to call Urosa "unworthy and troglodyte?"

• British police key in capturing Colombian narco-king in Venezuela
  
• Ecuador and Venezuela do first trade deal using new trade currency
  
• Military 'Operation Sierra 22' poppy eradication ends for another year
  
• Archbishop sides with Cardinal ... Chavez' remarks inappropriate
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to Spain chides Mayor Ledezma and PP
  
• Deep divisions in Venezuela's Christian Socialists ... Perez Vivas accused
  
• Helmerich & Payne warns other firms after Venezuela seizes 11 oil rigs
  
• Twitter and online bank intervention rumor-mongers face 11 years in jail...
  
• VZLA will extradite bombing suspect Francisco Chavez Abarca to Cuba
  
• Monsignor Mario Moronta rebuts Chavez' "unworthy and troglodyte" remarks
  
• Venezuela's electricity industry prepares merger of regional companies
  
• President Chavez holds bilateral meeting with Ecuador's Rafael Correa
  
• Caracas Mayor asks Spanish MPs to observe parliamentary elections
  
• Chavez: "Nobody ordered to let such a large amount of food spoil"
  
• Colombia's President-elect hopes Chavez will attend his inauguration
  
• Spanish lawmakers highlight the deterioration of democracy in Venezuela

• Energy & Mines vice president Gugarte comments Crystallex and Rusoro
  
• President Chavez responds to Cardinal Urosa's 'commie' scare message
  
• Venezuela's General-in-Chief Carlos Mata Figueroaremains as Defense Minister
  
• Ecuador's Correa: Manuelita Saenz and Bolivar are "passion and blaze"
  
• 7,500 Salvadorians received eye operations under VZLA-Cuban health plan
  
• Spain worried that Basque leader fleeing Northern Ireland is now in VZLA
  
• Silva Cano // Under Santos, there will be no honeymoon with Venezuela
  
• Matt Walker // Close encounters with giant harpy eagle of Venezuela
  
• VZLA captures Colombian drug trafficker Carlos Alberto Renteria Mantilla
  
• Eight dead, six wounded in a shootout at Venezuela's Sabaneta prison
  
• Venezuela honors Manuela Saenz as the lover of its independence hero
  
• Venezuelan slum is a laboratory for Chavez' nationwide socialist experiment
  
• Siderurgica del Orinoco to initiate a new configuration plan to increase output
  
• Venezuela: Economic war in the run-up to the parliamentary elections
  
• Rusoro announces updated Resource Estimate for Choco 10 deposits

• Shane Rees // Venezuela ... Welcome to Paradise!
  
• Message from Hillary Rodham Clinton on Venezuela's Independence Day
  
• Spain's intel services: ETA fugitive fled Northern Ireland for Venezuela
  
• Busy Independence weekend marred by arrival of Salvadorian hit man
  
• CELAC meeting in Caracas breaking new frontiers of regional integration
  
• President Rafael Correa in Venezuela on two-day visit to renew agreements
  
• Mexican community activist awaits asylum answer at Venezuelan Embassy
  
• PDVAL to get new name as it merges into the Venezuelan Food Corporation
  
• Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro rejects US accusations of rights abuses

• Venezuela's seized Banco Federal won't return to the private sector
  
• Ecuador and Venezuela positive about improving ties with Colombia
  
• Communal Power in Caracas: An interview with Wilder Marcano
  
• Alleged terrorist plotted attacks to disrupt September 26 elections?
  
• President Hugo Chavez steps up threats against 24/7 Globovision TV
  
• Venezuela and Chile will head a new 32-member Latin American bloc
  
• Three prisoners dead, nine wounded in Venezuelan prison power struggle
  
• Arthur Shaw // Gregory Wilpert is liberal writer on Venezuela's class struggle
  
• VenEconomy // ...and then Hugo Chavez came up against the economy
  
• Oliver L Campbell // American bald eagle helps reduce CITGO costs
  
• Venezuela may acquire stakes in Belarus' state-owned MAZ auto plant
  
• VZLA's ambassador cites struggle against social, economic challenges
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez scraps restrictions on street food vendors
  
• Chavez prepared to meet Colombia's President-elect Juan Manuel Santos
  
• Venezuelan top court upholds case evidence against the Foreign Ministry
  
• Scientists warn about surge of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
  
• Agricultural collapse ... Venezuela is losing its sovereignty...
  
• Oakland A's sign 16-year-old Venezuelan phenom for $2.2 million...
  
• Arbitration cases putting pressure on VZLA's state oil company PDVSA
  
• VZLA's weekly oil basket falls $1.07 ... prices falling in international markets

• Larry Rohter's just doing his job … just doing his job …just doing his job!
  
• Russian spy ring inside the United States is really NOT something new...
  
• Barack Obamaa: Are we moving from the Slave to the Nuclear Holocaust?
  
• Sidor gets loan from Gazprom and note from BCV ... union sues
  
• Haitian President on tour to VZLA, Cuba, Jamaica with elections in mind
  
• Dominica and VZLA coffee joint venture agreement passes first reading
  
• VZLA Health Ministry to meet Convit on autogenous anti-cancer vaccine
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador in Belarus grilled on oil sales by avid reporters
  
• Council of Ministers raises widow pensions, backs expropriation of oil drills
  
• Venezuela seeks international arrest warrant for Nelson Mezerhane
  
• Chavez' crackdown on brokerage 'thieves' leaves traders jobless...
  
• Opposition leader asks for preliminary hearing on the merits against Chavez
  
• Journalist Leocenis Garcia starts hunger strike in Venezuelan prison
  
• Obscure reasons given for administrative shutdown of daily newspaper
  
• Corruption in Venezuela is pointed out by critics as an ominous sign...
  
• September 26 elections will weaken Chavez' grip on the National Assembly
  
• VenEconomy // Yes, but there goes Public Prosecutor's Office in its defense
  
• Venezuela's PDVSA says value of assets up by $100 billion under Chavez

• Army has evicted thousands from illegal gold camps in Venezuelan jjungle
  
• Socialist International commission highlights "insecurity" in Venezuela
  
• 3 of 10 Latin Americans consider that Caracas' influence is NOT positive
  
• Chavez' 21st Century socialism serves to undermine economic freedom...
  
• Venezuela: Communal enterprises do not provide earnings for individuals
  
• Lake Maracaibo fishermen left with no income, three weeks after oil spill
  
• Peru's Foreign Minister to attend regional ministerial meeting in Venezuela

• Chinese-Crystallex 'Las Cristinas' gold JV is clearly a risky deal for investors...
  
• Santos vacation trip to Europe entails agenda with Venezuela in mind
  
• Shane Rees reveals more of the best-kept secret in the Caribbean
  
• Energy & Oil Minister denies oil spill on Lake Maracaibo ... it's only a leak!
  
• FANB launches drug cultivation eradication week in VZLA's Perija Sierra
  
• NGO president Rocio San Miguel objects to social comptrollership bill
  
• Minister Ramirez admits: 30,000 tonnes of wasted food in PDVAL scandal
  
• Larry Mantle // Oliver Stone and foreign affairs
  
• Canadian Mafia mobster's family operated from a base in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan ambassador refuses to disclose the price of oil for Belarus
  
• Venezuela. PetroVietnam sign US$584 million joint oil venture contract
  
• VenEconomy // More bad omens should serve as a warning
  
• US Ambassador Duddy denies meddling in Venezuela's domestic affairs
  
• US ambassador concerned over VZLA agenda opposing Washington
  
• Venezuelan union leader brings message of solidarity to Detroit
  
• Constanza Vieira // Spying Knows No Borders
  
• Crime wave fuels armored car sales in Caracas
  
• NGOs present report on violations of due process in case of Judge Afiuni
  
• PDVSA's environmental director says Lake Maracaibo oil spill is "moderate"
  
• CVG-Sidor negotiates financial support from the BCV and Gazprom
  
• Ombudswoman Ramirez says that the food scandal is NOT her business
  
• NGO warns that Law on Social Comptrollership restricts information
  
• Cardinal: "We are on our way to dictatorship and the country's downfall"