• 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