• 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