• Guyana confirms rice exports to and jet-fuel imports from Venezuela
  
• After eight hunger strikes, Franklin Brito has passed away in Caracas
  
• President Chavez visits exemplary communal sugar-packaging factory
  
• Yoani Sanchez // Saving lives ... or saving Hugo Chavez?
  
• Italian tourist slain on sailboat in Venezuela ... police suspect robbery
  
• Carlos Alberto Montaner // Will Chavez steal parliamentary elections?
  
• Venezuela spending $4 million to improve water quality, prevent contamination
  
• Venezuela exhumes two sisters of independence hero Simon Bolivar
  
• Maria Conchita Alonso talks about "Love, Loss and What I Wore"
  
• Alexandra Zendrian // Banking from a Venezuelan perspective...
  
• Joseph Malone links US Rep. Jeffrey Perry's supporter to Hugo Chavez
  
• US has "permanent military bases" in Guantanamo/Falklands -- Castro
  
• VZLAn President Hugo Chavez gave weapons to the Colombian FARC...
  
• Venezuela's retail sales fall 12.4% in the first half of the year
  
• UK Royal Navy warship intercepts yacht carrying cocaine worth £4 million

• Why is Chavez throwing a hissy-fit over international media coverage?
  
• The amazing Joe Jaycock and his Venezuelan baseball street kids
  
• Odeen Ishmael // UNASUR rejects FARC's mediation request
  
• Fred Cederholm // where are the answers and the solutions coming forth?
  
• Rusoro Mining Ltd records a net loss of $151.4 million during Q2 2010
  
• Gang leader Fraiber Velazco escapes from high-security Tocuyito prison
  
• Is Facebook reflecting undemocratic, hateful grimace of global fascism?
  
• Chris Herz // There's only one direction in which US political life must move
  
• Venezuela opens electoral fairs to promote September 26 elections...
  
• Our Man in Caracas ... Good news: Chavez doesn't like him...
  
• President Hugo Chavez says the Venezuelan opposition is desperate
  
• Venezuela's Chavez criticizes the international press ahead of elections

• Ten Venezuelan National Guard anti-drugs soldiers killed in border crash
  
• Chavez opponent Alejandro Pena Esclusa charged with explosives
  
• VenEconomy // Caracas being garbed in characteristically communist gray
  
• Oliver L Campbell // Were PDVSA's external auditors leaned upon?
  
• Venezuela's general mining industries -- 11 new discussion forums

• Small explosive device outside Cuban doctor's Caracas residence
  
• CNE president Lucena hauls all political parties over coals for "excesses"
  
• Chavez: If counter-revolution wins power, medicine will be privatized
  
• Mexico and Venezuela exchange views on climate change
  
• Venezuelan trade exchange with Iran reached $78 million in 2009
  
• Slain INTI general inspector Willian Prado awarded posthumous medal
  
• Venezuela seizes four tonnes of cocaine outward bound for Mexico
  
• Michael Bowman // VZLA youth dream of baseball careers in US leagues
  
• VZLAn President Chavez mocks rumors that he's suffering from cancer
  
• VenEconomy // More than the Unitary proposal for 165 candidates to the AN
  
• The Washington Times // Bogota unlikely to redo US base pact...
  
• Venezuela has two years to reform its police forces as homicides soar
  
• Venezuela's CVG-Venalum aluminum smelter operating at 30% capacity
  
• Extra-territorial application of RICO does not apply to Venezuela corruption...
  
• Mexico and Venezuela Foreign Ministers meet on UN Climate Change
  
• Venezuelan pro-Chavez politicians claim charities are US government fronts
  
• Power outages and falling demand hit 77% of companies in Venezuela
  
• Interview with Pedro Nikken, ex IACHR president on Venezuela
  
• Russia's Rosneft in "advanced negotiations" 50% of Ruhr Oel from PDVSA
  
• Opposition candidates say there are unhappy chavistas on the streets
  
• Guyana and Venezuela finalize second rice contract valued at $38 million
  
• Colombia Defense and Security Report Q4 2010
  
• Exxon/PDVSA Chalmette refinery to shut 3 units saving $8 million a month

• Former Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Milos Alcalay
  
• Political campaigns launched ... Chavez' foes head for electoral gains
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' popularity falls according to latest polls
  
• Financial Times: After brokerages, are VZLA�s banks the next target?
  
• Organization of American States drops Colombia FARC allegations
  
• Venezuela: UN agency provides training to help combat sexual violence
  
• Honduran Attorney General delves into Venezuelan donation to Zelaya

• To be or not to be? Is there really any question about the appointment of US Ambassador Larry Palmer?
  
• Venezuela vote race starts ... test of Chavez support ahead of 2012
  
• PSUV's Blanca Eekout: Pluralism and diversity only possible in socialism
  
• Rusoro and VenRus in rapid response to Guayana gold mining tragedy
  
• Colombia border area expects $4.6 million in deals with new markets
  
• Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) permits sales of FARC rum...
  
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia seeking rebirth in Venezuela?
  
• Iranian Industries & Mines Minister Mehrabian begins tour of Venezuela
  
• VZLAn Ambassador says flag-burning suspect sent home from Trinidad
  
• Six young persons die in cave-in at abandoned Crystallex gold mine
  
• Rusoro gold-miner lends helping hand to repair damaged highway
  
• Venezuela and China agree to long-term grand volume financing
  
• Ousted Zelaya calls on ALBA to question Honduras about funds

• In a penetrating essay, Venezuela's Adjunct Ambassador at the United Nations, Julio Escalona, explains why US military bases in Colombia are unconstitutional
  
• Venezuela uses Chinese funds to revive heavy industries in Guayana
  
• Another Chinese conquest ... or ... a Hugo Chavez "sellout" to Beijing
  
• Venezuela starts paying out $786 million owed Colombian exporters
  
• National Institute of Statistics: July unemployment rate rises to $8.7%
  
• Agriculture Minister concerned about health of frequent hunger striker
  
• Foreign Minister Maduro heads round table talks in border Tachira State
  
• German man arrested in VZLA facing trial in 23-year-old slaying of teenager
  
• Venezuelan quizzed on embassy 'attack' in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
  
• Iranian President Ahmadinejad: 'Iran, Latin America ties a priority'
  
• Venezuela with one of the world's highest murder rates -- official data
  
• Venezuela prioritizes $70 million debt payments to Colombian airlines
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez' socialist populism perpetuates inequality
  
• VenEconomy // Yet another piece of logic that stretches plausibility...
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to US writes open letter to New York Times
  
• 800,000, mostly young people, have left Venezuela in the last 10 years
  
• Colombia to establish filters on Venezuelan debt's payments
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // 2010 World NUT Daily Exclusive
  
• Fred Cederholm // The War is over, Saddam is gone, and we won!
  
• VenEconomy // Total impunity, is draining the country of its life blood

• Venezuela struggling with a decade-long surge in homicides...
  
• Two shot dead at Fort Tiuna in gunfight that wounded six other soldiers
  
• Crime beginning to hurt President Chavez among his constituency...
  
• United States judge mulls RICO case against Venezuelan officials
  
• WorldNetDaily // China channeling money through Chavez to drug cartels
  
• National Statistics Institute: Nearly 20,000 murders in Venezuela last year
  
• Venezuelan oil industry is going through a cycle of sinking output
  
• Central Bank president: Venezuela will move out of recession this year
  
• Heckling at voting centers in Caracas during trial electoral run-thru
  
• Presidential 'Alo Presidente' radio/TV shows suspended until October 3
  
• Chavez 'robolution' spent $155 million on housing and got nothing in return
  
• Colombia says Venezuela agrees to fight cross-border crimes

• President Hugo Chavez announces new US$2 billion bonds issue...
  
• Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV): Economy declined 1.9% in Q2
  
• President Chavez defends middle class families in Mezerhane debacle
  
• Vice President Jaua: Communes are the new subject of decentralization
  
• United Nations, OAS reject ruling which censors Venezuelan newspapers
  
• VZLA judge says newspapers may now print photographs of violence
  
• Colombia captures top suspected Venezuelan trafficker, Walid Makled
  
• VenEconomy // VZLAns already accustomed to their rights being violated
  
• Four arrested in Venezuela accused of robbing poor kids on an outing...
  
• Colombian and Venezuelan foreign ministers will meet today in Caracas
  
• NGO accuses Colombian ex-President Alvaro Uribe of treason
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) to issue $2 billion in public debt bonds
  
• 40 Iranian industrial companies to attend exhibit in Venezuela
  
• Michael Bowman // Venezuelan shoppers confront rationing, shortages
  
• Venezuelan economy contracts more slowly in 2nd quarter 2010

• Council of Police director: leave crime out of the electoral battle
  
• Government gets more additional credits to pay public sector salaries
  
• Peasant and PSUV leader Richard Jesus Gonzalez murdered in Zulia State
  
• More than 1,000 tonnes of powdered milk unloaded at Puerto Cabello
  
• Vestey Group sells farms to Venezuelan government using 'Chaz Method'
  
• Supreme Tribunal rules Globovision's Zuloaga may be extradited from USA
  
• Top level Venezuelan trade delegation in China to review cooperation
  
• Pro-government editor: A month ban on violent photos is meaningless
  
• VZLA National Electoral Council: 2,568 electoral observers accredited
  
• Ambassador to Tehran: Venezuela won't stop shipping gasoline to Iran
  
• VenEconomy // Crude reality at Bello Monte morgue in Caracas
  
• Venezuelan Press denounces court ban on 'violent images'
  
• No injuries or significant damage reported in VZLA refinery explosion
  
• Marianna Parraga and Daniel Wallis // Venezuela's PDVSA at crossroads

• Las Cristinas gold is the least of President Hugo Chavez' present woes...

• President Hugo Chavez says rampant crime is everyone's responsibility
  
• Capital markets law in force with national securities superintendency
  
• Venezuela welcomes Colombian Court's ruling on US military bases
  
• 2,000 Caribbean and South American post-graduates in Venezuela
  
• Chavez signs law barring Venezuela brokers from forex, public debt trading
  
• Some buyers may have had access to inside information on award ceilings
  
• Colombian Court says US military base deal is unconstitutional...
  
• VZLA newspaper owner/editor defends photo that spurred investigation
  
• USA reiterates that Palmer is the ambassador-designate to Venezuela
  
• President Chavez advises the United States to choose another ambassador
  
• Analysts: VZLA's Chavez faces political test in September 26 elections
  
• VZLA President Chavez: United States presence in Colombia still a threat
  
• Julio Escalona // union of South American Nations (Unasur) and the FARC
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // US Congressman Eliot Engel really has chutzpah
  
• The Economist // Will Venezuela and Colombia honor their commitments?
  
• Venezuela's Chavez isn't exactly known for being friendly to free media
  
• What would happen if Chavez cut off the US from Venezuelan oil?
  
• Regional poll shows that Latin Americans trust their media and the military
  
• Venezuela village holds cure for hereditary Huntington's disease (HD)

Explosion rocks Venezuela's 187,000 barrel per day (bpd) Puerto La Cruz refinery

• Chavez "seems to be running Venezuela more and more like a dictatorship"
  
• Rachel Jones // Venezuelans seek pleasure, privacy in love hotels
  
• More developments in Venezuela's front page dead bodies photo scandal
  
• Political work of Ambassador Simancas in Suriname sets example
  
• President Hugo Chavez attacks opposition media anti-crime offensive
  
• Venezuela signs historic gas exploration pact with Trinidad & Tobago...
  
• Chavez appeals to undecided to review government's social advances
  
• Colombian Congressman proposes two-nation municipalities with VZLA
  
• Belarus to get almost 550,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil via Lithuania
  
• Ray Walser // Jean-Bertrand Aristide would put Haiti in Chavez' camp
  
• Ahmadinejad admires Venezuela condemnation of anti-Iran resolution
  
• VZLA Communist Party: "Carlos the Jackal" should return to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // 13,975 homicides in 2009 ... the strategy backfired
  
• Airplane stolen from a hangar at Caracas' Maiquetia international airport
  
• Michael Bowman // Venezuelans have little consensus on 21st C. Socialism
  
• Nicaragua & ALBANISA: The Privatization of Venezuelan Aid

• Wealthy US Republican candidate dumps Petroleos de Venezuela bond
  
• The Economist // CARACAS: Shooting the messenger...
  
• Venezuela court jails Ukrainian sailors to nine years for drug smuggling
  
• Venezuela says 2022 $3 billion bond demand at triple offer amount
  
• MAT Minister: imports cover deficits, not replace domestic production
  
• Miss Universe 2009, VZLA's Stefania Fernandez says replacement clear
  
• Venezuelans' deteriorated purchasing power strikes the whole labor scale
  
• Venezuelan goods in Colombian market has been significantly downsized
  
• Fred Cederholm // "Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly...
  
• Education Minister: 5,000 displaced Colombian children in VZLA schools
  
• Environmentalist slams MIJ and Indigenous Affairs Minister in Yukpa case
  
• Chavez announces Caracas' readiness to provide Tehran with gasoline
  
• Venezuelan General Muller Rojas did not suffer fools lightly -- RIP
  
• VZLA government media found wanting in reporting Muller Rojas' death
  
• VZLA's Bolivarian National Police dismantles thirteen Metro station gangs
  
• Venezuela: Importers can access SITME without enrolling in CADIVI
  
• SIDOR output nearly doubles after restrictions on energy usage lifted
  
• Armando Benedetti says the Bogota bombing was 'the work of far right'
  
• Opposition group slams Venezuela for opening probe against newspaper
  
• Odeen Ishmael's THE MAGIC POT: Nansi Stories From The Caribbean
  
• Franz J. T. Lee: Weather weapon now used in 'Oil World Wars' is HAARP

• Shooting of Hong Kong player hits women baseball World Cup in Caracas
  
• VZLA moves the Women's World Cup baseball tournament after shooting
  
• Shocking photo of bodies stacked in Caracas Morgue sparks controversy
  
• Venezuelan prosecutors probe opposition El Nacional over morgue photo
  
• PDVSA received financial assistance from government agencies in 2009
  
• Oliver L Campbell // PDVSA's provision for litigation and claims
  
• CIA knew about terrorist plans against Cuban and Venezuelan Brigades
  
• Judge jailed in Venezuela hopes a successful election sets her free
  
• VenEconomy // Spurious laws cover practically all vital areas of Venezuela
  
• Terrorism ties exposed ... Venezuelan President Chavez remains defiant!
  
• Ex-General Antonio Rivero ordered to stay in Venezuela amid inquiry
  
• Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela to sign energy cooperation agreement
  
• There'll be no peace for Chavez until USA gets its hands on VZLA's oilfields

• Crystallex International admits it's got nowhere on Las Cristinas permit...
  
• Scott Sullivan // Bolivia's Evo Morales will sink Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
  
• Chris Herz // Venezuelan ex-oligarchs do not choose to live in Colombia...
  
• Central Bank (BCV) to Chavez' government US$19.2 million in profits
  
• Paraskevidekatriaphobia ... You should have stayed home today!
  
• Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) deputy Luis Tascon dies of cancer
  
• Venezuela invites Suriname President to discuss development projects
  
• Chavez to complete Bolivarian auditorium where Simon Bolivar died
  
• Vice President Jaua installs 12 megawatt generator on Margarita Island
  
• Venezuelan government postpones talks on Sidor B shares until 2011
  
• MIJ Minister: Prisoners' cases will be heard during the judiciary vacation
  
• How Venezuela's Hugo Chavez tries to hide the truth about his government
  
• VenEconomy // Eliminating the adversary
  
• Car bomb attack in Colombia disrupts President Santos' peace plans
  
• Venezuelan muralists, cartoonist, paint different pictures of President Chavez
  
• New gold export rules may help Rusoro quadruple output by 2013
  
• Colombia-Venezuela: South America's most preeminent couple
  
• "Show of strength by guerrillas or CIA-MOSSAD" was a loaded question...

• Rusoro Mining secures breakthrough gold trading resolution in Venezuela
  
• Bogota car bomb explosion: Show of strength by guerrillas or CIA-Mossad?
  
• Diego Arria seeking cooperation with Uribe to bring Chavez to the ICC
  
• Colombia and Venezuela: Personal conviction or diplomatic suicide?
  
• Colombia's Holguin: Verification of FARC presence in Venezuela dropped
  
• Bankers welcome latest Venezuela bond issue as helping imports-exports
  
• Venezuela to ban bankers from involvement in media financial activities
  
• Unloading of grain-cargo ships in Puerto Cabello facing long delays
  
• Andres Cisneros // Is Chavez abandoning the FARC?
  
• Absence of President Hugo Chavez said to be a blessing for Suriname
  
• VenEconomy // How long will the honeymoon with Colombia last?
  
• Moscow welcomes the restoration of ties between Venezuela and Colombia
  
• Colombia's Constitutional Court postpones decision on US military pact...
  
• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez cozies up to tyrants and narco-terrorists
  
• Chavez admits Colombia may sign military agreements ... even with USA
  
• LGBT NGOs launched to push for civil code gay marriage in Venezuela
  
• Georgie Anne Geyer // Venezuela's Hugo Chavez moves toward 'goofy left'
  
• Colombian Foreign Minister to meet Venezuelan counterpart next week
  
• Venezuela will let gold miners export half their production ... up from 30%
  
• Venezuelan government seeks to bar banks from owning media firms
  
• Colombian exporters may not be so keen to return to Venezuelan markets
  
• Fedecamaras urges resumption in the short term imports from Colombia

• Colombian-Venezuela Chamber of Commerce sets down conditions
  
• General Rivero charged with offenses against FANB security
  
• Colombian Congress kicks off reconciliation with visit to Caracas
  
• Venezuelan police murder squad members get sentenced to sixteen years
  
• Finance Minister: Yes, Mezerhane's Banco Federal will be liquidated
  
• What does Colombia-Venezuela reconciliation mean?
  
• Venezuela and Colombia agree diplomatic roadmap
  
• Strategy Page // Colombia: New Boss, same as the Old Boss
  
• Asdrubal Aguiar: "Nothing or nobody can reverse Uribe's claims"
  
• F. William Engdahl // Something stinks about Wikileaks...
  
• Nicaraguan President Ortega finds huge patron in Venezuela's Chavez
  
• Oliver Campbell // LBC harshly criticises PDVSA's results
  
• Vilnius may reduce or even cut off PDVSA oil from the Klaipeda oil terminal
  
• Costa Rica urges patience in Venezuela-Colombia dispute
  
• Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Mugabe to have platform at UN General Assembly
  
• U$3 billion bonds to reduce pressure on CADIVI and the Central Bank
  
• 55-year-old Venezuelan housekeeper sues US family citing "forced labor"
  
• Colombia's Santos says door to talks with FARC guerrillas is "not locked"
  
• Venezuelan prosecutors charge General with crimes of "insulting" the Army
  
• Venezuela: Fifteen police officers sentenced for unionists' deaths
  
• LatAm declares mining key for economic and social development
  
• Fitch rates Venezuela's Foreign Currency Bond Issuance 'B+'
  
• Swiss airport operator Flughafen Zurich AG seeks Venezuela arbitration
  
• Tourism to Margarita Island hit by frequent electricity blackouts

• Grim warning for President Hugo Chavez to think twice about Colombia's new President Juan Manuel Santos ... AND his dubious cronies...
  
• Mr Chavez ... When you speak with Mr Santos, you speak to Washington
  
• Prof. James Petras // US policy of armed confrontation and intervention
  
• Colombian Vice President Garzon stable after undergoing heart surgery
  
• Fidel Castro: Colombia unwilling and unable to attack Venezuela
  
• Bad cop Uribe playing around with International Criminal Court
  
• Fugitive banker Mezerhane's building to house socialist supermarket
  
• US-based Chinese steel manufacturer to open Venezuela office
  
• US Pride International employee accused of bribing official at PDVSA
  
• Mike Whitney // Hurrah For Hugo Chavez...
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez visits Colombia amid diplomatic spat
  
• Chavez seems willing to ease up on his vitriolic approach toward Colombia
  
• United States says it is standing by its choice of ambassador to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // CNE creating difficulties for international observers...
  
• Venezuela-Colombia summit to include the issues of rebels and trade
  
• President Chavez: Venezuela will deploy several "non-atomic" submarines
  
• Venezuela ready to recover Caribbean Los Roques paradise archipelago
  
• Leeward islands drops territorial claims to Bird Island on joining Petrocaribe

• Benedict Mander // Is Venezuela's debt worth the risk?
  
• Colombia's new Vice-President undergoes emergency heart surgery
  
• USA says Venezuela has not officially reported on disapproval of Palmer
  
• Washington expects Caracas to endorse Palmer as ambassador
  
• Who cares how many 'camel drivers' are being massacred in Iraq...?
  
• Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tweets: "Chavez is a coward"
  
• Venezuelan newspaper group attacked for the second time in two months
  
• Details of US$3 billion bond sale to be offered by Venezuela today
  
• Will Chavez and Santos be able to mend Venezuelan-Colombian ties?
  
• Chavez accepts offer to hold talks to end diplomatic rift with Colombia
  
• Colombia's new reformist President seeks to avoid war with Venezuela
  
• Human Events // Hugo Chavez is destroying Venezuela's economy
  
• Divide and conquer? Washington tries to pit Colombia against Venezuela

• President Hugo Chavez rejects US ambassador-designate to Venezuela
  
• VZLA President Hugo Chavez to meet Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos
  
• President Hugo Chavez urges Colombia's rebels to release their hostages
  
• President Chavez says Venezuela is about to emerge from recession

• Hugo Chavez wants talks with Santos to heal Venezuela-Colombia ties
  
• Colombia's new President calls on Venezuela, Ecuador to improve ties
  
• Colombia and Venezuela seek new start with Juan Manuel Santos
  
• JFK terror plot: Convicted terrorists linked to Iran and Venezuela
  
• Timothy V. Gatto // Are we (USA) going to invade Venezuela? Why?
  
• The Colombian government has a tenuous hold on rebel FARC haven
  
• The Quiet Revolution: Venezuelans experiment with participatory democracy
  
• Venezuela brings 'message of love and solidarity' to Santos inauguration...
  
• Pejman Yousefzadeh // What Chavez hath wrought
  
• Complaint filed against Hugo Chavez at the International Criminal Court
  
• More cocaine via VZLA and Cuba ... source of dollars eagerly sought after
  
• Carlos Blanco: "PDVAL is the clear expression of the government tragedy"
  
• Venezuela says in no hurry to issue $3 billion debt bond
  
• Venezuela, Brazil sign agreements in energy, agriculture, livestock, finance
  
• Venezuela to ease some restrictions to allow access to the currency market

• Why all this negative criticism of Venezuela's programs from the VOA?
  
• Pedro M. Burelli // United States-Venezuela relations on the brink...
  
• Venezuela's Chavez ready to restore diplomatic relations with Colombia
  
• Chavez phones Medvedev with offer to help fight wildfires in Russia
  
• Trade between ALBA countries in 2010 above $400 million as sucre grows
  
• President Chavez sides with Colombian General and slams Larry Palmer
  
• Venezuelan Finance Minister: Inflation, CPI and scarcity drop is positive
  
• TeleSur's Andres Izarra evokes the ghost of Shapiro in Larry Palmer
  
• NYT & VZLA Academy of History dispute reasons for Bolivar's exhumation
  
• Venezuela shipping up to 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day to China
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez may bar nominee US envoy for 'meddling'
  
• VenEconomy // They say it's a Stock Exchange ... but it isn't!
  
• Ship carrying 3.5 tonnes of cocaine intercepted in the Caribbean
  
• Stormy weather causes widespread power blackouts in Venezuelan states
  
• Argentina's Nestor Kirchner in Caracas to meet with President Chavez
  
• VOA: Venezuela's oil wealth powers social programs ... drives divisions
  
• Mismanagement: the biggest rock on which Chavez' revolution has floundered
  
• United States: Venezuela fails to cooperate with counter-terrorism efforts
  
• Benedict Mander // War of words embroils US nominee for Caracas

• Millions of Colombians in Venezuela worried over conflict warnings
  
• Venezuela surprised by Caricom's Carrington resignation announcement
  
• Zulia ranchers and farm owners worried about INTI reform offensive
  
• VZLA Defense Minister: Larry Palmer has no morality to belittle FANB
  
• Venezuela's MIJ sends emergency aid to Sucre town hit by rains and floods
  
• Former Argentinean Ombudsman questions kick-backs in trade with VZLA
  
• Venezuela could refuse to accept new US Ambassador's credentials
  
• Keith W. Cooper // United States needs policy on Venezuela
  
• Largest oil producer, Venezuela pares China debt with $20 billion oil accord
  
• Colombia and Venezuela's stand-off delays South American progress
  
• VenEconomy // PDVSA ... No use trying to hide the obvious
  
• Broken Promises: US interference in Venezuela keeps growing
  
• Welcome to 21st century censorship; Chavez shows us how it's done...
  
• United States activists call for USAmerican troops to leave Colombia
  
• So US SouthCom's General Fraser accepts Colombia's evidence as true?
  
• Clarinha Glock // "The World Needs a New Social Contract"
  
• Venezuelans criticize US Ambassador-designate Larry Palmer
  
• Rusoro Mining investors see a dry pan in waiting for news from Venezuela

• United Socialist Party of Venezuela rejects statements by US Ambassador
  
• Venezuelan authorities arrest 24 crew for cocaine aboard Chinese ship
  
• Colombian FARC guerrillas operate freely in Venezuela: new US envoy
  
• Larry Palmer reports on low morale among Venezuelan militaries
  
• Grand Pacaraima Gold Corp. will exchange four gold mines in Venezuela
  
• Palmer gets OK as ambassador for take on "demoralized" VZLA FANB
  
• Mercosur calls on Unasur for emergency meeting on Colombian-VZLA conflict
  
• Mercosur summit breaks through on common customs code
  
• Telecommunications agency under control of Venezuela's vice-presidency
  
• Julio Escalona // Uribe, NATO and the IMF
  
• PDVSA says BP's Venezuela assets are not yet officially for sale
  
• Setty // Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) earnings ... any surprises?
  
• Editorial // Venezuela-Colombia-United States relations
  
• VENEZUELA: What Chavez wants with the United States of America
  
• Venezuela Stock Market Index now up 16.35% ... but down 41.83%
  
• Mercosur meeting in San Juan wraps up a successful summit
  
• VenEconomy // Chavez taking steps to put communism firmly in place
  
• Ternium quarterly profit falls 67% on 2009 Venezuelan SIDOR payment
  
• Venezuela hopes the Colombia crisis will be over 'in a few days'...
  
• Book Review: "In Mortal hands -- a cautionary history of the nuclear age"

• European union ambassador criticizes Venezuelan decision to break ties
  
• Claims of guerrilla banking in Venezuela could bring UN scrutiny
  
• Firebombs hurled at Las Noticias de Cojedes newspaper office
  
• PDVSA's investment in 2010 is estimated at $16.4 billion
  
• PDVSA domestic provider liabilities amounted to $7.57 billion in 2009
  
• Iran, Venezuela agree to set up a joint oil shipping company
  
• PDVSA social contributions amount to $5.26 billion
  
• Hilary Kramer // Venezuela: Real trouble South of the Border
  
• Venezuela oil giant PDVSA sees profits slump 52.2% in 2009 to $4.498 billion
  
• Venezuelan Communist Party calls for regional demilitarization
  
• Latin Business Chronicle // PDVSA: More contradictions
  
• What more does it take to waken US workers from their state of self-denial?
  
• SIDOR liquid steel production drops 11% in July but sales improved
  
• Venezuela to supply China with 40 million tonnes of iron in seven years
  
• University fights for lands seized by the National Lands Institute (INTI)
  
• "Health problems" and Colombia keep Chavez away from Mercosur summit
  
• Paraguay and Venezuela to start series of business talks this month...
  
• PSUV defends much-maligned PDVAL from "opportunistic" opposition
  
• President Chavez: Possible public stock market and banking problems
  
• South American leaders gather in Argentina for Mercosur summit...
  
• Susan Kaufman Purcell // Leaning against Chavez?
  
• The first thing about Venezuela is that it doesn't make sense...
  
• Trade union chiefs say government meddling in unions is stirring violence
  
• Connie Mack vows to lead the fight to list Venezuela as terrorist state
  
• Venezuelan government implements controls to prevent food smuggling
  
• Nelson Belfort: "The revolution is foundering and it is not the media fault"

• Christopher Hitchens // What I learned about Hugo Chavez' mental health
  
• Chavez regime's drug trafficking is back in the international spotlight
  
• Food Minister checking out stocks and supplies in Tachira and Zulia States
  
• CVG and PDVSA agree to strategic alliance for supplies chain
  
• Screaming 666 ... the mark of the beast from the Book of Revelations?
  
• Alfredo Bremont // Never waste a good world war...
  
• Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) throws out Yukpa defense injunction
  
• PSUV in electoral campaign meetings with communal councils
  
• CNE and CANTV satisfied with first round of electoral dataflow tests
  
• Chavez insists: Key to regional peace is peace in Colombia...
  
• The challenges will be formidable for the next President of Guyana
  
• Jerry Brewer // Venezuela and a constant meddling in neighbors' affairs
  
• Caracas: There's too much corruption and the government does nothing
  
• Brian Williams // Who let Chavez off his leash?
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez says he aspires to stop Uribe's 'war-craze'