• 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