• 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