• Venezuelan President Chavez: "There is a coup attempt" against Correa
  
• Ecuador declares state of emergency amid 'coup attempt'
  
• Former adviser says that President Chavez can be defeated in 2012
  
• President Hugo Chavez Frías orders compulsory acquisition of Autoseat
  
• Miners hope new National Assembly will re-impulse gold mining sector
  
• Odeen Ishmael // LAC region faces stiff challenges to achieve the MDGs
  
• Venezuelans send Chavez a message: they want their democracy back
  
• Gold Reserve remains open to amicable settlement on Brisas/Choco
  
• Carlos M. Pietri // THAT Roy Carson interview with Milos Alcalay!
  
• Venezuelan observer group: effort of the people made elections a success
  
• Deputy-elect Hector Navarro adds Rapid to PSUV's three "Rs"
  
• Venezuela prepared to help re-launch United Nations structure and agenda
  
• Venezuela at UN Human Rights Council attacks Israel's HR record
  
• MinCi rejects foreign correspondents association position on RFI affair
  
• Geoff LeGrand // Venezuela's parliamentary elections: everybody wins
  
• A democratic dictator? Unhelpful caricatures and VZLA democracy
  
• Guillermo I. Martinez // VZLA election results not good news for Chavez
  
• Shootout between rival gangs leaves at least 10 dead in jail riot
  
• Venezuela wants to suspend UN Security Council veto rights
  
• Los Angeles Times // A check on Chavez
  
• Venezuelan psychiatrist sentenced to 20 years for murder of patient
  
• Venezuela frees Colombian intelligence service official accused of spying
  
• US court orders revision of note suit against former Venezuelan bank

• Antonio Padrino // Who won?
  
• MUD must turn anti-government rhetoric into effective parliamentary debate
  
• Gold Reserve cuts damages claim 60% to mildly less outlandish figure
  
• Radio France International (RFI) responds after President Chavez' attack
  
• TIME // Venezuela: Hugo Chavez' opposition gets its act together
  
• RFI writer Moreno Abad sets it straight about proportional voting in VZLA
  
• Venezuelans took the first step toward building a democratic future...
  
• Current AN to continue process of choosing new TSJ magistrates
  
• Electricity Minister gives update on service status in rained out Caracas
  
• Venezuelan foreign policy not affected by opposition gains in Parliament
  
• Chavez supports Colombian Senator banned from holding office
  
• Venezuelan elections: A Serious Warning to the Revolution
  
• 36 year-old Icelander arrested in Venezuela on tax fraud charges
  
• Chavez publicly criticizes reporter from French radio network
  
• Francisco Toro // Suddenly, Venezuela has a smart, determined opposition
  
• Election results put Venezuela's Chavez on notice
  
• The Venezuelan vote: Chavez on the ropes?
  
• Defiant Chavez claims "Huge Win" in weekend Polls
  
• Will constitute the biggest fraud ever committed against Venezuela...
  
• No plans for recall referendum to try to unseat President Hugo Chavez
  
• INVESTORS: Don't rule out Chavez chicanery
  
• Fernando Espuelas // Hugo Chavez can't kill hope in Venezuela
  
• Chavez' grip on Venezuela; Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself

• Venezuelan Intelligence Service detains Spanish MEP at Caracas airport
  
• Venezuelan Opposition fears Chavez may speed laws through assembly
  
• Radio France Internationale (RFI) rejects Venezuelan President response
  
• Elected deputies who are in jail should be released as they have immunity
  
• Chavez scored what in the USA would be regarded as a landslide
  
• Venezuela: Socialist Party wins majority, but opposition is gaining ground
  
• Gold Reserve (GRZ) files $1.9 billion claim for lost Venezuelan assets
  
• Venezuela can no longer mortgage its future to be a cash cow for Chavez' expenditures propping up Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia
  
• Chavez pledges $1 billion to ease over-populated and high-risk barrios
  
• Anger and calls for cleansing and more revolution from PSUV grassroots
  
• At least three prisoners dead, four injured in Venezuelan jail riot
  
• Here it is very clear: Venezuela said no to Cuban-style communism
  
• Chavez' party won the most seats in a critical legislative vote but...
  
• Venezuela elections: Hugo Chavez' loses his two-thirds majority
  
• President Chavez: Venezuela studying nuclear energy program
  
• The winners were democracy, unitary plurality, and civic-mindedness
  
• Colombia's Santos to meet Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in October
  
• Is Chavez a threat to USA or a buffoonish nuisance who's best ignored
  
• Opposition wins new clout to try to rein in President Hugo Chavez
  
• Stealing an election: Venezuela 2010
  
• Candidate Maria Corina Machado: Venezuela said NO to communism
  
• Venezuelan opposition alliance claims it won 52% of popular vote

• Patrick J. O'Donoghue // The opposition is back ... thanks to the Bolivarian Revolution
  
• Roger Noriega // Chavez' Venezuela? Tails, he wins; heads, you lose.
  
• Venezuela's benchmark Global 27 bond price jumps 2.937 points
  
• Washington Post // Opposition can stop Hugo Chavez' policies
  
• Spending a weekend unraveling ... coming apart at the seams ... literally!
  
• Chavez hopes soon to meet with Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos
  
• Venezuela has granted BP permission to negotiate the sale of its assets
  
• The Economist UK // A Pyrrhic victory
  
• Venezuela opposition limits President Hugo Chavez in parliament
  
• Chavez fails to reach critical two-thirds majority in Venezuelan assembly
  
• Spain hopes Venezuela vote results will encourage dialogue
  
• CNE issues first official results: PSUV 90 versus Opposition 52
  
• PSUV fails to hit AN seat target but declares itself majority party
  
• Results will buoy opposition's hopes of toppling President in 2012
  
• Venezuela Elections 2010 Results: Chavez allies lose but win
  
• Venezuelan government denounces hacking of Chavez' Twitter account
  
• President Hugo Chavez' PSUV fails to get desired two-thirds majority
  
• National Electoral Council (CNE) provides results of parliament election
  
• Tensions rise in early hours as people wait for CNE's first bulletin

• Patrick J. O'Donoghue // Fun and games liven up legislative elections in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela: From severe drought to to floods: Is HAARP at work again?

• Several dead in deadly rains slamming Caracas ahead of today's vote

• Venezuelans head to polls in key vote for President Hugo Chavez
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls upon Venezuelan people to vote massively
  
• Venezuela says BP seeks government approval to sell local assets
  
• OAS officials are "Special Guests" to election day in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelans vote, President Hugo Chavez likely to retain parliament
  
• Chris Herz // I wish to declare that I, too, am in this area a terrorist...

• Extradited Venezuelan VoIP hacker Edwin Pena sentenced to 10 years
  
• Don't expect elections to check Hugo Chavez' growing dictatorial powers
  
• Crime is soaring and it's not too hard to identify the reason...
  
• Andres Oppenheimer // Hugo Chavez may lose ... even if his party wins
  
• Venezuela: It is a classic case of the Goose and the Golden Egg...
  
• Venezuelans go to polls on Sunday to defend a moribund democracy
  
• Socialization of Venezuelan economy hinders recovery of private sector
  
• Venezuelan business chamber Fedecamaras forecasts inflation close to 35%
  
• Heavy rains hit 2,471 acres of agricultural lands in Venezuela
  
• Carlos Pietri // Shame on foreign correspondents and Venezuela's opposition
  
• Geoff LeGrand // Venezuela's Communes: Not as radical as you might think
  
• India rejects Venezuela's offer to set up $10 billion sovereign fund
  
• Opponents and supporters of President Hugo Chavez hold final rallies
  
• Demand for Portuguese language classes in Venezuela grows by 30%

• Colombia says leading FARC secretariat members hiding out in neighboring Venezuela
  
• Friends Of Venezuela // Assembly Elections: Five things to watch
  
• Despite Venezuela's impoverishment, Utopia remains a powerful draw
  
• Venezuela: Basic Industries economic activity of has slowed since 2005
  
• Venezuela ranks 138 out of 141 countries in economic freedom
  
• Rusoro is still enmeshed in the financial shenanigans of Venezuela...
  
• Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro wraps up PSUV campaign in Tachira
  
• Vice President Elias Jaua attacks opposition candidates in Miranda State
  
• Maria Corina Machado: elections between re-encounter and communism
  
• Government and opposition close electoral campaign anticipating victory
  
• Venezuelan banker Cedeno presses US graft case against Chavez allies
  
• Message of hatred brandished by the Hugo Chavez administration
  
• VZLA authorities capture fugitive in killing of two officers, wounding six
  
• Venezuelan woman evicted in D.C. with 30,000 pounds of belongings
  
• Venezuela suggests changes to global economic model
  
• Cardinal: Venezuelan government should respect election results

• Ambassador Valero highlights Venezuelan successes at UN MDG summit
  
• Opposition Zulia Governor whips up regional allegiance as electoral bait
  
• Venezuela defends its war on drugs ... United States falls short
  
• Chavez launches new social programs ahead of Sunday's elections
  
• Venezuela to buy Aframax tankers from Russia in $700 million deal
  
• Dan Calabrese // Will Venezuelan voters stand up to Hugo Chavez
  
• Will we cast our vote for the French Revolution or for the Paris Commune?
  
• Government arrogates "right" to take companies and properties at whim
  
• Anti-Chavez opposition mounts challenge for parliamentary control
  
• Five out of the seven members of the same family killed in mudslide
  
• Venezuela going to the dogs with misguided and outdated economic policy
  
• Opposition: Chavez is trying to conceal his administration's inefficiency...
  
• Venezuela's electoral authority expects high turnout on Sunday

• Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro: Palmer and the Millennium summit
  
• Vice President Jaua compares Fourth and Fifth Republic governments
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to Spain slams biased TVE program on Venezuela
  
• Julio Escalona // From Allende to Afghanistan
  
• President Hugo Chavez urges all parties to accept election results...
  
• Elections Council (CNE) confirms smooth progress in electoral organization
  
• Arrieta's vote more valuable than the laundry machine she got from PSUV
  
• Venezuela seeking collaboration with the Turkish food and textile sector
  
• Venezuela may not have economic heft to back its revolutionary zeal
  
• CITGO provides free admission to more than 1,000 museums...
  
• Venezuelan economy in shambles ... cliff-hanging parliamentary election
  
• Venezuelan school doors remained closed from Monday, September 20
  
• On the world stage, President Chavez' behavior is increasingly ominous
  
• Venezuela's Chavez vows to respect ballot result, asks foes to do likewise
  
• Three workers injured at Ferrominera Orinoco" plant in Bolivar state
  
• USA suffers a stunning tactical defeat in BOTH Iraq and in Afghanistan

• Suitcase bomb explodes in front of Colombian consulate in Caracas
  
• High-security Venezuelan banknote paper may have been compromised...
  
• China's conquistadores may leave more treasure than they haul away
  
• Workers seal oil pipeline leak at Venezuela's biggest Amuay refinery
  
• Lay council reminds Venezuelan Church has always rejected Communism
  
• MIBAM's Jose Khan says Venezuela generator explosion is under control
  
• USA's Roger Noriega: 'The Only Option for Venezuela is to develop Nuclear Deterrence…'
  
• VENEZUELA: Sunday, September 26, there should only be ONE winner!
  
• More than 11,000 young people to ensure clean election in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela Stock Market Index down 40.82% in official rate US dollar terms
  
• Venezuelan Jews express concerns at meeting with President Hugo Chavez
  
• The USA has become the dumping ground for the world's production...
  
• Vice President Elias Jaua opens agricultural complex in Miranda State
  
• President Chavez opens supermercal store in Merida during campaigning
  
• Suspect flees to Venezuela as audit uncovers details in $10 million fraud
  
• Trinidad & Tobago authorities suspend Conviasa airline landing rights
  
• Venezuelan government to take full control of the cement sector
  
• Chavez wants a break from US meddling. Can you blame him?
  
• Chavez foes face obstacles ahead of crucial September 26 elections

• President Hugo Chavez swears-in a roomful of women as his guardians
  
• Venezuela's elections will likely reduce President Hugo Chavez' sway
  
• Venezuela prepares action against illegal armed groups in the country
  
• Iran's Khodro Industrial Group plans new car factory in Venezuela
  
• Miami Herald: Chavez isn't on ballot, but is on Venezuelan voters' minds
  
• Venezuela: 600 kilos of cocaine, almost three tonnes of marijuana seized
  
• Venezuela receives first tranche of US$20 billion Chinese loan
  
• Aminda Matques Gonzalez // It takes trained eyes to observe VZLA vote
  
• Scenes of misery supposed to be receding into Venezuela's history

• Nil Nikandrov // Venezuelan opposition's chances are non-existent...
  
• Couple charged with attempting to sell nuclear weapons secrets to VZLA
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says won't accept US Ambassador
  
• President Chavez blasts US charges that Venezuela is weak on drug fight
  
• Venezuela's Jewish community leaders satisfied after meeting with Chavez
  
• Four people die and 23 others injured when bus runs off the road
  
• Indifference and negligence on the part of the Venezuelan government
  
• VZLA Conviasa airline grounded as flights submit to or technical review

• 'Not so autonomous' judge in last ditch effort to be opposition candidate
  
• SVG applies to ALBA Bank for $50 million loan to complete international airport
  
• CVG-SIDOR iron & steel company will be back to full production in 2011
  
• Top Colombian narco-trafficker "Beto Marin" captured in Venezuela
  
• More evidence that Afiuni is yet another of Hugo Chavez' prisoners...
  
• Venezuela holds the world's second-largest crude oil reserves
  
• Archbishop Roberto Luckert of Coro urges change for Venezuela
  
• President Hugo Chavez meets with Venezuela's Jewish leaders
  
• CITGO sign: A beacon for Boston ... NOT Venezuelan President Chavez
  
• CITGO opens ultra-low sulfur diesel unit at Lemont Refinery
  
• CITGO says Corpus Christi crude unit shut to check for damage
  
• British Trade union leaders support the Venezuelan Revolution

• The mysterious "Relampago del Catatumbo" -- Venezuela's everlasting storm
  
• So that the future of Venezuela can result in a more caring nation...
  
• Colombia-Venezuela border summit postponed until after September 26
  
• "No, I'm not the messiah," says Dudamel with a shrug and a smile...
  
• Jim Wyss // Chavez aims to keep control of Venezuela's parliament
  
• Venezuela's state-owned CANTV to expand fibre-optic network in south
  
• Chavez: VZLA is passing through a wave of adversities but will overcome
  
• Venezuelan government wants electricity workers to fight sabotage
  
• Chavez tells Ministers: Feel the pain of people with housing problems
  
• Chavez: Legislative elections must be won and the results accepted
  
• VenEconomy // Two positives that don't offset multiple negatives
  
• John R. Bolton // The Chavez threat
  
• Chavez has "slight lead" legislative election polls, but 37% are undecided
  
• Venezuelan Oil Minister Ramirez says $100 barrel a "Fair Price" for oil
  
• Raul Diaz, convicted in 2003 bombings, should be extradited from USA
  
• Low-income Nicaraguan students to receive funding from Venezuela
  
• Venezuela: Oil tanker loading and unloading operations resume
  
• President Hugo Chavez promotes cheap Chinese appliances on TV
  
• Venezuela abruptly cancels airline's "mystery" shuttle flight to Syria and Iran
  
• NGO wants Comptroller General to investigate Venezuela's donation
  
• Colombia says difficult restore trade to levels before a diplomatic crisis
  
• Reuters // What's at stake in Venezuela parliament vote?
  
• National electricity grid does not have the required capability since 2004
  
• Eva Golinger // US media intensifies campaign against Chavez
  
• Cathedral Energy Services Ltd. announces joint centure for Venezuela drilling

• Venezuela death toll rises to 17 in French-built ATR 42 plane crash
  
• Government says Spain us to send observers for Venezuelan election
  
• PDVSA's oil terminal in Bonaire to be closed until further notice
  
• Venezuelan government owes $13.5 billion wide range of nationalizations
  
• Military helicopter pilot rescued; the co-pilot and chief engineer missing
  
• Ratings boost for President Hugo Chavez ahead of Venezuelan vote
  
• Fernando Luis Egaña // ¿Y QUÉ PASÓ CON PUDREVAL?
  
• Chavez orders 3-day mourning for dead Conviasa passengers
  
• Venezuelan frigate rescues passengers of two boats adrift in Caribbean
  
• Chavez to open popular tourist scheme using fugitive banker's yachts
  
• ALBA members offer multi-destination packets at FitVen International Fair
  
• Venezuelan States to receive criminal forensic advice units in 2011
  
• Local hospitals cannot cope with injured survivors in plane crash
  
• Venezuelan accused in Spanish-Colombian embassy bombings flees
  
• Venezuela to pay additional $120 million to Colombian exporters
  
• No Russians onboard plane that crashed in Venezuela -- embassy
  
• Matt Gurney // The Cost of Chavez
  
• Just like the drug addict who sells his soul to pay for his addiction
  
• Venezuelan State-run companies racked by major incidents
  
• Hugo Chavez cozies up to private sector ahead of key vote

• Former Information Minister Fernando Egana -- whither Chavez?
  
• Venezuela stunned by tragic death of State Governor and top PSUV figure
  
• President Chavez loses veteran and historic revolutionary to cancer
  
• MIJ Minister El Aissami slams opposition for "double discourse" on crime
  
• After two-year stand-off, Chavez to pay Holcim $650 million for assets
  
• Venezuela is stuck with Colombia and Colombia is stuck with Venezuela
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela SA leased an offshore platform from PetroSaudi
  
• James K. Glassman // Venezuela on the Brink

• Democracy as a problem: Sovereignty, integration and neoliberal globalization
  
• Venezuelan (Guarico) Governor Willian Lara found dead after crash
  
• VZLAn Jesus Majano released after arrest for message posted on Twitter
  
• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez admits he's not funding Opposition-led regions
  
• Dock fire halts shipping at Venezuela's 310,000 bpd Cardon refinery...
  
• VenEconomy // Sweeping change in the "culture" of financial institutions
  
• Chavez' capacity to make trouble is limited by his own failures at home
  
• Chavez' obsession with past turns creepy ... and he's not alone...
  
• Against this background the elections in VZLA acquire vast importance
  
• John Smartt // Decisively taking all the teeth out of Mr. Carson's article
  
• Dan Miller // Is the (red) tide turning in Venezuela?
  
• A view from The Economist: �US and Latin America, nobody's backyard'
  
• 'Cruel' end to Venezuelan family's legal immigration to the United States

• Oscar Heck // This is a true story … but should not be taken seriously...
  
• Strange disturbance reported at the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry (MRE)
  
• National Assembly approves additional credits to cover social problems
  
• Venezuela re-adjusts prices of paddy rice, maize and sunflower
  
• Defense Minister boosts role of militia in public security operations
  
• Colombian journalist ready to renounce political asylum status in Venezuela
  
• The Economist: Argentina and Venezuela provide cautionary tales
  
• Venezuela's economy has become a lasting casualty of the recession
  
• Venezuela castrated with no promising young people to build its future
  
• Venezuela's Land Grab: Taking land by force is no solution to inequality
  
• VZLA food prices drop in August ahead of crucial congressional election
  
• Venezuelan oil exports in August down by 8% year-on-year
  
• Venezuelan police arrest engineer for spreading message on Twitter
  
• South-eastern Venezuela states report 96% of malaria cases
  
• Venezuelan Central Bank expects to slow down annual inflation rate
  
• President Santos: Colombia-Venezuela committees are yielding results
  
• Venezuelan TV tycoon dismisses possibility of being extradited from USA
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) Bonaire oil terminal still shut due fire
  
• Venezuela ranked 122nd in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)
  
• Venezuela's CNE: Government officials can participate in the campaign
  
• German customs sniffer dogs sniff out deodorant drug-smuggler
  
• Eva Golinger // US Interference in the Venezuelan Elections

• EDITORIAL: The Venezuelan government's 'Best Kept Secret' ... but the whistles are already blowing...
  
• Venezuelan Portuguese ex-pat Francisco Alves ends hunger strike
  
• Venezuelan Foreign Minister appointed as ALBA Bank president
  
• Veteran economist doubts Venezuela will move out of recession this year
  
• Venezuela invests US$23 million dollars along the border with Colombia
  
• CVG-SIDOR aiming to produce 2 million tonnes of steel in 2010
  
• Rosneft holds talks with Venezuela on buying German refineries
  
• President Hugo Chavez: Foes sabotaging Venezuela's power grid
  
• Guyana's maritime delimitation law adversely affects Venezuela's claim
  
• Venezuela increases imports of Argentina's cheese and chicken
  
• Venezuelan ambassador wants to "turn the page" on tensions with Colombia
  
• Venezuelan power distribution grid works with 10-30% overload
  
• Venezuela to retain US$30 million from $133 million refinery deal
  
• Alan Woods // Defeat the counter-revolution and fight for Socialism!

• Venezuela's inflation jumps to 19.9% in the first eight months of 2010
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador: Colombia ties must be based on diplomacy
  
• Venezuelan oil exports fall 8.7% in August to 1.53 million barrels per day
  
• Daniel W. Drezner // Venezuela self-imposed Mad Men sanctions
  
• Odeen Ishmael: FARC is seeking a way out of the political quagmire
  
• VenEconomy // Giordani seems to think inflation of 30% is an achievement
  
• Venezuela President criticized for campaigning ahead of Assembly vote
  
• Community in rural Venezuela blocks road to demand electricity repairs
  
• Cuba fearful that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez might lose power
  
• Michael Bowman // Venezuelan Opposition parties aim to break cycle of failure
  
• NGOs urge the Venezuelan government to stop persecution
  
• Venezuelan beauty grabs Bulgaria's Miss Summer International 2010 title
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela currency rationing hits home...
  
• Venezuela's military university to promote "anti-imperialist struggle"
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela begins payment of dividends to the Treasury
  
• Venezuela inflation up slightly in August, annual inflation at 29.7%
  
• Expert: Poverty in Venezuela will remain unchanged with good living card

• Security tightened on electricity plants and sub-stations to prevent sabotage
  
• Vice President: only Socialism guarantees family and personal property
  
• SVG PM plea to stay execution of Iranian woman could spur Venezuela into action
  
• Police accused of murdering Italian yachtsman on Margarita Island
  
• Venezuelan military official asks not to include criminals in crime statistics
  
• Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero celebrates South America on EMI
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela spends 50% of revenues in investments in 2009
  
• Venezuela's trade turns to Arab countries and former Soviet republics
  
• Venezuelan authorities to investigate alleged sabotage of electricity
  
• VenEconomy // The crisis, far from being solved, is more serious than ever
  
• Jeffery R Webber & Susan Spronk // Voices from Venezuela

• EDITORIAL: Alice's looking glass is surely in need of urgent repair
  
• Venezuela is NOT taking advantage of gold prospects and world prices
  
• Chavez wants to see major changes in development of Communes
  
• Communes hold the key to Venezuela's Socialist economy in elections
  
• Minister Fleming promises to make Venezuela an international destination
  
• Electoral observer NGO dubs CNE strong on technical, weak on balance
  
• Izarra slams private media for blackout of PSUV campaign news
  
• Failure at EDC substation causes disruption, blackout across Caracas
  
• Andrew McKillop // Reconstructing climate change...
  
• Labor Day takes on a special significance for all of us in the USA...

• Dissenting military demand "credible explanation" for helicopters crash
  
• Venezuela to keep funds for cash bonus to Nicaraguan public servants
  
• More than 4,000 inmates at three Venezuelan jails on hunger strike
  
• Venezuela sends aviators to pilot the Bolivian President's airplane
  
• Members of Venezuela's Jewish community to meet with President Chavez
  
• Oil exports to China increasingly key for Venezuela
  
• Average price of VZLA crude rose to $66.77 from $65.17 September 3
  
• Drugs deal between Venezuela and Beirut was worth more than US$8 million
  
• VZLA's policing system influenced by Northern Ireland's Police Service
  
• VenEconomy // Standard procedure for Chavez to violate the Constitution

• President Chavez adds 150 megawatts of electricity supply for Zulia State
  
• CNE president Tibisay Lucena pulls up colleague for off-the-cuff comments
  
• VZLA Ambassador to Spain, Isaias Rodriguez, tells PP to stop messing
  
• AG investigates role of family and friends in Franklin Brito's hunger-strike
  
• President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela is not a sanctuary for terrorists
  
• VZLAn President Hugo Chavez mocks cancer rumors as wishful thinking
  
• Chinese CHEC to build a new container terminal at Puerto Cabello
  
• Roger Noriega // Testing Chavez
  
• Bad phone connection with VZLA suppliers caused scheme to unravel
  
• Election official accuses President Chavez of breaking campaign rules
  
• Chavez reaches a $600 million deal to buy majority-owned French stores
  
• Chavez admin's public policies pushing Venezuela towards a precipice
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez defends his record on crime in Venezuela

Venezuelan government defends its record in the Brito hunger-strike affair
Venezuelan Vice President chides opposition Governors for high crime rates
Leopoldo Lopez: Public insecurity in Venezuela could be solved in 20 months
Caracas D.C. to refurbish apartment blocks and doubles security in metro stations
Opposition economist Ochoa slams government "good living" debit card
AN deputy defends 3,000 house buyers swindled by construction cos
US-British meddling in St. Vincent & The Grenadines to oust ALBA
Julio Escalona // Peace, Sovereignty and Democracy
Big increase in Q2 gold output and fall in costs for Rusoro
Rusoro Mining Ltd. grants and re-prices incentive stock options
Electoral official calls for analysis of Chavez' role in election campaign
Chavez accuses the US of funding coup attempt in Venezuela
Colombia should compensate Venezuela for refugees: Labor leader
Venezuelan vice-president: government did not violate hunger striker's rights
Seizures in Venezuela focus on retailers and industries
Experts complain that 91% of murders go unpunished in Venezuela
Venezuelan government provides credit cards to buy food
Ex BCV director: The 'good living' card does not come straight to the point
USAID increases funding for Venezuelan opposition
National Police deploy 658 troops to ensure safety in 47 Caracas metro stations
Venezuela buying out land and cattle belonging to the UK Vestey family
VenEconomy // Venezuelans will end up living hand to mouth
Venezuela's public deficit at US$4.88 billion in five months
Chinese company to build terminal at Venezuela's largest cargo port
Eva Golinger // Chavez: Security a priority
US-Venezuela links teeter on the brink, dragging a prudent foreign policy with it

• Chavez announces 'good living' debit card for supermarket customers
  
• CNE sends voting material for LatAm Parliament to all VZLA embassies
  
• Colombians could enter joint venture in Venezuela's Orinoco Oil Belt
  
• VenEconomy // When this dark period of Venezuela's history is written...
  
• Gil Shefler // Jewish community in Venezuela shrinks by half
  
• Francisco Toro // Venezuelans desperate for change after September 26
  
• Venezuelan capital flight up to US$8.69 billion in the first half of 2010
  
• Hands Off Venezuela: National Assembly elections to be held on 9/26