• 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