• 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