• 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