• 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