• Last minute deliberations have put Las Cristinas and Las Brisas on hold!
  
• Crystallex' Las Cristinas mining contract should be declared null and void...
  
• Venezuela under Chavez is one of the major ports for drug trafficking...
  
• Miss Venezuela beauties endure 'military' regimen
  
• Venezuela organizations denounce violations of freedom of expression
  
• Amazon Indians ravaged by apparent malaria epidemic, dozens dead

• VenEconomy // An attempt at terrorizing or a result of uncontrolled crime?
  
• PDVSA acknowledges that social welfare programs jeopardize it
  
• "In the event of seizing Polar, the State will be consolidated in the sector"
  
• Ex-Presidential candidate Eduardo Fernandez' residence attacked
  
• Russian Lada cars will begin to arrive in Venezuela in November
  
• Valencia lake overflows because of recent heavy rains; threatens homes

• Rusoro Mining gets crucial permit to export 50% of its stock of gold bullion
  
• Odeen Ishmael // UNASUR to establish a "democracy clause"
  
• Venezuelan tabloid: Legal aspects prevent the exploitation of Las Cristinas...
  
• Owens-Illinois expropriation was move against monopolies...
  
• Shooting: Leading Venezuelan business woman out of danger
  
• PROVEA concerned about whereabouts of ETA man's Spanish lawyers
  
• PDVAL clarifies case of 60 tonnes of expired powdered milk
  
• Ambassador Moncada and BBC's Jeremy Paxton question TI
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuela in Permanent Mourning
  
• President Chavez to announce Venezuela's gold mining details on Sunday
  
• Chris Herz // Quem deus vult peredere, dementat prius...
  
• Oscar Heck // "Why, really, do I hate Canada in a generalized way?"
  
• "Chinese" interests to take over Venezuela's Las Cristinas gold mine?

• Fedecamaras executives kidnapped; ex-Fedecamaras head injured
  
• Business leader suspects the felons were not simply common criminals
  
• IACHR deals with four human rights cases related to Venezuela
  
• Venamcham urges the government to stop government takeovers
  
• Venezuela unlikely to sell United States refiner CITGO soon
  
• Incredible cruelty to a captive lion at Maturin Zoo ... risks being repeated!
  
• Minister: Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) facing tough sale of CITGO
  
• Venezuela has stopped sending gasoline to Iran
  
• Venezuela hopes to begin first Orinoco oil production in 2011
  
• Venezuela says BP's asset sale valued at $800 million
  
• Venezuela prevents visit of UN special rapporteur
  
• Judge denies bail to Venezuelan receiver of former securities firm
  
• Venezuela cuts reserve requirement twice in a week
  
• Venezuela's ambassador to Spain regrets Parliament's decision
  
• Chavez voices desire "to get out of" US oil company CITGO
  
• Venezuela moves more oil exports away from US
  
• VenEconomy // A path of nuclear thorns
  
• Chris Herz // The Highest State of Capitalism
  
• Directory at the Venezuelan Ministry of Basic Industries & Mining

• Chavez expresses sympathy for former President Kirchner's death
  
• Crystallex International: Don't ask ... no need to disclose Venezuela set-back!
  
• Ex-President Alvaro Uribe Velez warns of Venezuela's nuclear threat
  
• CITGO was impacted by sale of assets and financial aid to PDVSA
  
• AN-74 aircraft is an integral solution of many tasks in Venezuela
  
• Debunking Chavez' Tour: What Chavez' trip to Russia really means for USA
  
• 71-year-old Venezuelan Jose Antonio Abreu wins Seoul Peace Prize
  
• Joel Brinkley // Why can't Spain leave Hugo Chavez alone?
  
• Venezuelan regulator arrested in Miami for attempted extortion
  
• Owens-Illinois to monitor Venezuela takeover of two bottle factories
  
• Jim Wyss // Hemisphere loser: Venezuela
  
• Benedict Mander // Chavez: in the mood for nationalization
  
• Colombia/Venezuela Santos-Chavez meeting postponed

• Las Cristinas, Las Brisas in Venezuela-Russia carve-up on gold mining
  
• Chavez: Russia will help Venezuela "start to exploit Las Cristinas mine"
  
• Venezuela sends troops to US glassmaker Owens Illinois' plants
  
• United States expects Venezuela to compensate expropriated firm
  
• Gazprombank and VTB partner Venezuela in joint Russian-Venezuelan bank
  
• About 12% of Venezuela's national budget for debt service in 2011
  
• Chavez: 69 economic agreements made to break capitalist grip on Venezuela
  
• Russian-Venezuelan investment bank to fund plantain exports to Russia
  
• Venezuela ready to sell CITGO refineries, gas stations in the USA
  
• Owens-Illinois ... Chavez secures passive liabilities for doctors and nurses
  
• Russia, Iran and Belarus to build 37,512 houses in Venezuela
  
• Jesuit lifts hunger strike to defend indigenous cause as demands are met
  
• Tension in Merida after two men shot in student university residence
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls Venezuela-owned CITGO "bad business"
  
• VenEconomy // Anarchy, Disinformation and Impunity
  
• Hunger strike off as government agrees to talks on native demands
  
• Two leaders of a pro-Chavez group murdered in in the city of Merida
  
• Venezuela's PDVSA will not expand its US$3 billion bond issue
  
• Alfredo Bremont // Financial monarchy is the enemy Chavez has to face

• Crystallex' had a two year deadline to get Las Cristinas into production!
  
• FANB stops illegal extraction of 1.2 kilos of gold per month in Venezuela
  
• Erick Stakelbeck // Chavez, Drug cartels and terrorism funding
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez to give details of accords signed during tour
  
• Chavez welcomes Colombian decision not to allow US military to use bases
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez back in Venezuela after tour
  
• Venezuela's Chavez sees multipolar world really emerging
  
• Jesuit continues hunger strike for Yukpa indians in Venezuela
  
• Chris Herz // Julian Assange and Wikileaks
  
• Achieving big things in small spaces: Towards VZLA food sovereignty

• University of Tripoli grants President Hugo Chavez an Honorary Doctorate
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Portugal to buy boats, computers
  
• Venezuela, Libya strengthen bilateral relations and South-South integration
  
• Chavez in Libya: Venezuela will not submit to any outside supervision
  
• VenEconomy // Higher inflation and more poverty for the population...
  
• Venezuela asks Iranian officials for help to construct 50,000 houses
  
• Workers' subordination feared to make an impact on CVG management
  
• Demolition of Venezuelan independence hero Jose Antonio Paez' ranch
  
• Hugo Chavez' latest diplomatic venture ... Venezuela's multi-polar disorder
  
• Venezuelan VP: Companies will be nationalized as required
  
• Venezuela boosts programs to protect sea turtles
  
• Chavez to Obama: nuclear plant will not be used for military purposes
  
• Venezuela drops nine places in the 2010 World Press Freedom Index
  
• Venezuela's budget to depend on taxes and borrowing
  
• Venezuelan forex board has authorized $18 billion for imports
  
• Colombian President Santos and Chavez to meet October 29

• Mibam: If small scale gold-miners displaced ... they will go illegal
  
• Venezuela pushing for talks with Gold Reserve to avoid arbitration
  
• Russia's Medvedev and Chavez unveil deal for 'a new world order'
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez says Capitalism responsible for poverty
  
• Venezuelan Planning Minister aiming for 0.5% growth and 22% inflation rate
  
• Transport Minister promises improvements at Caracas international airport
  
• Ombudswoman speaks out against death of 3 yr-old denied medical attention
  
• Barbados limits ties with Venezuela to bilateral accords ... no ALBA
  
• President Chavez expected to buy new batch of 'Magellan' computers
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez throws his weight behind Syria
  
• VenEconomy // An obligation and a pressing need
  
• Venezuela is going through a very difficult period politically and socially
  
• Venezuela faces challenge of democratic model based on cooperation
  
• Venezuela: Economic fall will be lower in third quarter 2010
  
• Colombia to stop supplies of gas supply to Venezuela from November
  
• President Hugo Chavez says Obama sowing 'doubt' on nuclear deal
  
• President Hugo Chavez describes the UN as "a waste of time!"
  
• Phillippe Michel // Venezuela to develop nuclear program with Iran's help
  
• Iran and Venezuela sign agreement to construct oil refinery in Syria
  
• Pro-government labor unions urge the government to stop expropriations

• Venezuela: Nationalizations, expropriations or "theft of assets"...
  
• Uncertainty grips expectant gold-mining communities in Bolivar State
  
• Russia Today Spanish TV wins awards at Promax/BDA LatAm ceremony
  
• Jailed Crystallex opponent Carlos Chancellor wants immediate release
  
• VenRus: Unrest and grumbling among workers at the La Isidora mine
  
• PROVEA chief Mariano Alvarado backs ETA man Arturo Cubillas
  
• Antonio Padrino // The permanent opposition in Venezuela
  
• Presidents Chavez and Ahmadinejad determined to alter World Order
  
• Matt Gurney // Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has been busy as of late
  
• Colombian police seize 500 kilos (1,101 pounds) of illegally mined coltan
  
• Venezuela: Chavez is said to have reached agreement with Lord Vestey
  
• President Chavez begins official visit to Syria President Bashar al-Assad
  
• Venezuela is to establish a joint development bank with Russia

• Digging Venezuela out of the mess Chavez has plunged it into...
  
• Oliver L Campbell // PDVSA: Financial results -- January/June 2010
  
• Iran and Venezuela to form joint oil company, sign 11 MOUs
  
• Venezuela Central Bank (BCV) lowers reserve deposit requirement
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela 2017 bonds exempted from income tax
  
• Exxon cuts Venezuela arbitration claim to US$7 billion
  
• President Barack Obama says Venezuela has right to Russian nuclear aid
  
• Vice President tells university staff and workers that liabilities will be met
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) admits fall in profits and increase of debt
  
• Tehran welcomes Venezuela's Hugo Chavez as partner against 'bullies'
  
• Opposition Unified Panel: Nuclear agreement is all about politics
  
• ETA suspect Arturo Cubillas Fontan denies links with the FARC
  
• UN sanctions on Iran not to limit trade relations with Venezuela
  
• TV tycoon: Chavez is "the enemy of freedom of expression"
  
• VZLA among the countries with less transparent budgetary procedures
  
• Presidents Chavez and Ahmadinejad display their common revolutionary ideal
  
• Iranian Ministry of Industries & Mines to transfer technology to Venezuela
  
• First Syrian 40 tonnes olive oil shipment sails to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // The truth behind the PDVSA figures

• RusTech to join VenRus JV on Las Cristinas, Las Brisas gold mines
  
• News of Las Cristinas recovery filters down to the Venezuelan media
  
• Court proceedings overseas hover over the Venezuelan government
  
• Record of 97,000 cases of dengue reported in Venezuela
  
• Chavez says Colombian newspaper is dictated from the United States
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stresses closer ties with Tehran
  
• VZLA Ambassador doubts it that alleged ETA member is extraditable
  
• Moratinos: ETA suspect can be prosecuted in VZLA without extradition
  
• Embassy sources: Venezuela, Iran to establish joint oil shipping company
  
• Vanessa Neumann // Hugo Chavez' military build-up and Iranian ties
  
• Draft law would make it easier to take over oil service company assets
  
• Mehrabian says Iran's trade with Venezuela stands at US$3.5 billion
  
• Colombia's Santos: Venezuelan trade agreement to be signed in 2011
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez arrives in Tehran for bilateral talks
  
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially welcomes Chavez
  
• Chavez forced to look for a nice international massage for his ego...
  
• Ukrainian companies to exploit oil and natural gas reserves in Venezuela
  
• Spain-Venezuela ties strained as Chavez stonewalls ETA investigation
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela issues PDV 2017 bond with 8.5% coupon
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to Spain continues to grab headlines
  
• Debate in PSUV over Communes replacing State Governorships

• The Las Cristinas Saga -- THE END -- to Russia with love!
  
• Autonomous universities are being plunged into serious deficiencies
  
• Venezuelan ambassador in Basque Country amid ETA controversy
  
• Yanukovych and Chavez agree to stir up Ukraine-Venezuela relations
  
• BelaPAN: Belarus will receive 30 million tonnes of Venezuelan oil
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Ukraine for aerospace talks
  
• Chavez to Lukashenka: building an alternative to world imperialism
  
• Belarus' Mikhail Rusi offers to build a farm for 1,100 cows in Venezuela
  
• Belarus to increase milk powder supplies to Venezuela in 2011
  
• Russia Novoship and Venezuela PDV Marina to establish JV
  
• Vladimir Putin: Russia to ship 35 tanks to Venezuela soon
  
• Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych may visit Venezuela in 2011
  
• Venezuela to export coffee and soy to Belarus as relations get stronger
  
• Chavez pleased with advance in Russian-Venezuelan trade deals
  
• The consequences for dissident nations like Venezuela or Cuba or Iran
  
• Fred Cederholm: Sounds simple enough … IF all the I's are dotted!

• Chavez told NOT welcome in Beijing ... failure of Venezuelan diplomacy!
  
• United States demands Russia and Venezuela to respect international pacts
  
• Chavez says Russia and Venezuela have huge prospects for cooperation
  
• President Chavez heads to Belarus for economic talks with Lukashenko
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez assures trade with Moscow until 2014
  
• Russia may sell S-300 missiles to Venezuela, instead of Iran: analyst
  
• Venezuela okays ENI's partnership with PDVSA in Orinoco oil project
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela heats up Russian affair...
  
• Acting President: Venezuela no longer depends on private industry
  
• Chavez has thrown the engine into reverse by validating Beijing
  
• United States watching 'closely' Venezuela-Russia nuclear deal
  
• Fugitive hob-nobbed with Venezuelan elite; visited Canadian embassies
  
• VZLA takes over Bancoro, citing liquidity problems; 13th seizure in a year
  
• President Chavez lays stone for Simon Bolivar monument in Moscow
  
• British Petroleum's assets in Venezuela will be acquired by TNK-BP
  
• Venezuela agrees to extradite Ukrainian sailors sentenced for drug smuggling
  
• Russia agrees to build Venezuela's first nuclear power station
  
• Venezuela refuses to extradite ETA suspect Arturo Cubillas to Spain
  
• Cuba-Venezuela cable delayed until 'July 2011' ... at the earliest
  
• Chavez: "Big honor now to oppose the Yankee empire's aggression"
  
• VenEconomy // The costs of Venezuela'a Castro-communist Revolution
  
• Chavistas embrace revolution, suspicious of United States' policies
  
• James Dryburgh // What a tangled web they weave

• Benedict Mander // Just how bad is Venezuela's dollar crunch?
  
• Morgan Stanley warns about foreign exchange crunch in Venezuela
  
• President Chavez says that Venezuela will develop nuclear energy
  
• Venezuela requests extradition of General Nestor Gonzalez Gonzalez
  
• Venezuela says it will not extradite alleged ETA trainer Arturo Cubillas
  
• String of nationalizations in Venezuela as Chavez speeds up "revolution"
  
• Vice President Elias Jaua appointed as acting Venezuelan President
  
• Francisco Ameliach appointed Venezuelan Chief of Staff
  
• National Elections Council (CNE) sets timetable for December elections
  
• Ex-minister Saman defends his record in nationalizing sardine factory
  
• Vice President announces additional credit for all state governments etc
  
• Criminal gang nabbed stealing laptops from school in Maracaibo
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez to visit Syria for talks with President al-Assad
  
• Dolan Cummings // Music: for education or political gain?
  
• Hugo Chavez to talk in Moscow on bilateral coop plans up to 2014
  
• Venezuela flavors the menu at El Porton Cafe in south of Kansas City
  
• Chavez shoots off his mouth ... won't hand presidency to the opposition
  
• All nine people on missing Venezuelan boat found safe and sound
  
• Venezuela's oil production up 111,000 bpd; 4.8% in September
  
• A long historical legacy of mistrust of the United States in Venezuela

• Chavez replaced the old corrupt elite with his own corrupt followers...
  
• State-run oil co PDVSA "virtually" excluded from refinery project in Brazil
  
• Spain's Attorney General asks to "hand over or prosecute" ETA member
  
• President Hugo Chavez to strengthen ties with Russia, Iran and Libya
  
• Venezuelan business sector rejects state-centered policies

• Missing Venezuelan flag at key Spanish event prompts more distrust
  
• Spanish ex-pats on hunger strike in Caracas demanding compensation
  
• Agriculture Minister highlights success on recovered farm lands in Aragua
  
• Evidence of Chavez administration's collaboration with narco-terrorists
  
• President Hugo Chavez' visit to reinforce Venezuela's ties with Russia
  
• Campaign under way to beatify long-dead Venezuelan country doctor
  
• Venezuela's Attorney General probes Spanish emigrant's alleged ETA ties
  
• Small boat carrying nine people cited as missing off Venezuelan coast
  
• Venezuelan Embassy says that Spanish media lie about parade
  
• Venezuelan Parliament: There is no official draft organic criminal code
  
• President Chavez' tour suggests no change in Venezuelan foreign policy
  
• Expropriation policy is dismantling Venezuela's production model
  
• Viva China! More reactions to Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Prize...

• Venezuela lost over US$33 billion in 2008 alone ... consequences of corruption hurt the poor more than any other sector of society...
  
• Criminal bill proposal gives green light to euthanasia in Venezuela
  
• Colombia's Santos expects full restoration of Venezuela ties this year
  
• Conindustria: Venezuela has seized about 185 industries in 2010
  
• Koch Industries says it has received no word on Venezuela takeover
  
• Venezuela's business sector asks top court for ruling on private property
  
• Venezuela approves China's JV stake in the Orinoco Oil Belt
  
• Trade sector: Government is plunging Venezuela's economy into chaos
  
• Venezuela's government considers that Polar and Cargill must be state-owned
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez backs China over Nobel for jailed dissident
  
• Chavez announces expropriation of key car oil and fertilizer companies
  
• Chavez: Agroislena deviated to become agro-toxic and predator model
  
• Venezuelan government will receive remaining Vestey farms on October 20
  
• Chinese delegation in Venezuela for gold-mining aluminum and steel studies
  
• "I had been told Venezuela was a mecca of international terrorism..."
  
• President Hugo Chavez' autumn tour: regaining his positions at home
  
• President Chavez announces the expropriation of two more companies
  
• Chavez looks to assimilate the working class via military service
  
• Colombian Government to deploy new battalion on Venezuela border
  
• Japan Times editorial // Mr. Chavez attracts powerful opposition
  
• Rep. Eliot Engel: "Chavez has decided to be a despot ... not a democrat"

• Capriles is not the contender Chavez wants to fight in the ring...
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuela, with a score of 63, came 14th in the world
  
• Venezuela appoints Ivan Rancon as new Colombia ambassador
  
• Venezuela to buy more than 1,000 homes from private builders
  
• Julio Escalona // Elections and Geopolitics
  
• Environment for microfinance deteriorates in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan opposition reinvents itself
  
• Spanish reporter tells his experience on terrorist training in Venezuela
  
• IACHR reports killing of sixth member of a family in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela and Spain negotiate new arms deal
  
• Who may run against Venezuela's Chavez in 2012?
  
• Tirdad Derakhshani // 'Carlos the Jackal': Separating man, myth

• The Venezuelan government is eager to militarize the population by force
  
• Opposition makes hay over military conscription confusion
  
• Agriculture Minister promises cheaper fertilizers and agronomic products
  
• Venezuela repays $200 million owed Colombian exporters
  
• Lara Governor Henry Falcon jeers at Chavez' choice for 2012 elections
  
• President Chavez makes a point of punishing those who defy his will
  
• Spain concerned over Venezuela as ETA's new "refuge"
  
• Banco Santander 'ordered' to return US$150 million Venezuela funds
  
• 12,000 prisoners call off hunger strikes at eight Venezuelan prisons
  
• Chavez: "Nobody and nothing will stop the Bolivarian revolution"
  
• Rizwan Ladha // Venezuela is going nuclear, and we should be worried
  
• Exxon confirms worker death at Chalmette, Louisiana refinery
  
• General Motors de Venezuela (GMV) to continue investing
  
• Noris Negron removed as President of Venezuelan state airline Conviasa
  
• Venezuelans citizens aged 18-60 must register for compulsory military draft

• Venezuela's Nuclear Projects: President Hugo Chavez says "They aren't going to stop us..."
  
• Spanish Judge believes that ETA, FARC produced weapons in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' visit to Russia: infected by 'VIRUS'?
  
• Ambassador Valero at UN accuses USA of double standards on terrorism
  
• Venezuela produces zero refugees but welcomes 4+ million Colombians
  
• Tachira deputy takes lead resigning post on PSUV political bureau
  
• In continuing row, Venezuela opens investigation into ETA activities
  
• President Chavez prepares to visit the Russian Federation this month
  
• CICPC Flores Troesel: A total of 20 tonnes of drugs seized this year in VZLA
  
• 11,900 inmates at eight Venezuelan prisons begin hunger strike...
  
• Venezuelan opposition hopes to stunt Chavez' Bolivarian 's revolution
  
• VenEconomy // A pyrrhic slowing down in Venezuelan inflation
  
• Spain asks Venezuela for "immediate and concrete action" on ETA
  
• Michael Rowan / Why Chavez Wins
  
• Zapatero calls for response from Caracas regarding ETA training
  
• Venezuela's unemployment up to 9.6% in August
  
• National Assembly proposes increased penalties for insulting Chavez
  
• Vladimir Kara-Murza, jr. // Venezuelan Parallels
  
• Len Tria // I think it was Chavez' own deodorant he smelled...
  
• Unite the union assistant general secretary on Venezuelan elections
  
• Reflections on the September 26 Venezuelan National Assembly Elections

• Why Venezuela's gold-mining industry is GOOD News for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
  
• Spanish media and opposition gunning for Ambassador Rodriguez
  
• Chavez tells Agroislena agricultural supplies company to respect the law
  
• Agriculture Minister fixes Agroislena credits to 3% as move towards Socialism
  
• Executive Vice President announces expropriation in Catia for university
  
• Agroislena orders workers to collaborate with government officials
  
• Chavez orders timely intervention of Caracas international airport
  
• VenEconomy // Government exasperated by its defeat at the polls
  
• Spain: "Credible" that ETA suspects trained in Venezuela
  
• Roger F. Noriega // Chavez' secret Nuclear program
  
• Chavez' opponent rejects statements of Venezuelan ambassador to Spain
  
• TIME: Are Basque terrorists being trained in Venezuela?
  
• Venezuelan journalist among four winners of CPJ press freedom award
  
• Venezuela's accumulated inflation amounts to 21.2% so far this year
  
• Venezuela's 104,000 bpd catalytic cracker at Amuay refinery shut down

• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez scoffs at claim of ETA links
  
• Venezuela has "serious doubts" about confessions of ETA members
  
• Venezuela hints Spain may have tortured ETA suspects...
  
• Leopoldo Lopez // Elections: A building block to something bigger
  
• Agroisleno Company taken over temporally for monitoring and checks
  
• President Chavez reiterates opposition to Spanish Basque ETA
  
• Venezuela's Poll: Democracy against the Odds
  
• Iran has a Russian gun pointed at the United States from Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // He lost, but he continues laying the country waste
  
• Benedict Mander // Chavez vows to nationalize UK group's land

• European legislators warn about the state of democracy in Venezuela
  
• Fred Cederholm // Tall tales would be laughable were they not so tragic
  
• Kurt Cobb // If only Chavez can be removed from the presidential palace
  
• Two ETA members admit they received arms training in Venezuela
  
• Vargas Llosa: "What do we want: another Chavez or getting rid of Chavez?"
  
• Chris Herz: Not a Chance
  
• Venezuela's post-legislative elections talk by Diego Arria in London UK
  
• Federico Fuentes // Venezuela: Left wins, but right makes gains
  
• Venezuelan Elections: Catholic Church versus Hugo Chavez
  
• Augusta Chronicle Editorial // A nuclear Venezuela?
  
• Obama administration fingerprints on Ecuador coup attempt
  
• Venezuela's Chavez to visit China, Russia, Belarus, Iran
  
• President Chavez announces nationalization of Lord Vestey's farms, "now!"
  
• Chavez announces seizure of farming supply company
  
• One dead, five wounded in fight at Venezuelan prison
  
• President Hugo Chavez says civilian militia should be armed full-time
  
• Chavez declares socialism as the only answer to Venezuela's problems
  
• Alex Newman // Corrupt Venezuelan election still a blow to regime
  
• In one and a half years, debt service will amount to US$18 billion
  
• Fedecamaras Noel Alvarez: "We feel that economy is being destroyed"
  
• Venezuelan economy in the aftermath of parliament vote
  
• VenEconomy // The Revolution's Fifth Columns
  
• Ecuador revolt: Attempted coup or uprising?
  
• Venezuela: Sucre's State Governor asked to quit as PSUV spokesperson

• Chavez urges the US "to keep its imperialist hands" out of the region
  
• Andres Oppenheimer // Chavez will fight election results
  
• ALBA countries quick off the mark to condemn attempted coup in Ecuador
  
• Vice President Elias Jaua visits people made homeless by rains
  
• Another prison riot in Venezuela: 16 dead, 35 injured
  
• Police Council launches pedagogical communique vs. Ecuadorian police
  
• Ecuador's President Correa survives police mutiny, rescued from siege
  
• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez: Nuclear blackmailer in American backyard
  
• South American leaders condemn attempted coup, kidnapping in Ecuador
  
• Venezuela's parliament gets ready to choose high court deputies
  
• British Petroleum (BP) to sell its Venezuelan assets to Russian TNK-BP