• 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• Venezuela going to the dogs with misguided and outdated economic policy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