• Connie Mack hammers Obama and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on CITGO
  
• President Chavez and Wikileaks: US policy to isolate him will continue to fail
  
• No let up in rains … uneasy emergency response government-opposition
  
• Initial reaction in Venezuela to Wikileaks latest is cool and expectant
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls on Hillary Clinton to resign over WikiLeaks
  
• Venezuela relaunches state airline Conviasa with a fleet of 15 aircraft
  
• 13 people known to have died and 2,000 families affected in rain storms
  
• Venezuela declares State of Emergency in rain-wrecked Falcon State
  
• Venezuela's Cardon refinery stops operations amidst storm
  
• VenEconomy // Heavy rains, radicalism and politicization
  
• Venezuela to resume supply of subsidized fuel to Colombia
  
• Colombia promises good relationship with United States, Venezuela

• Former ambassador: Other six ETA members work for Chavez' government
  
• Venezuela's PDVSA still has debts with oil suppliers incurred in 2009
  
• Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro: Venezuela will burn if Chavez is killed
  
• Colombia: Improving ties with Venezuela is not affecting US relations
  
• Rusoro Mining results for Q3 2010: Net income increased to $7.4 million
  
• Wall Street elves have been busy crunching numbers, graphing the results
  
• Editorial: There are NGOs and NGOs… government needs to discern
  
• WikiLeaks: Sarkozy aide branded Venezuela's Hugo Chavez 'crazy'
  
• Venezuelan government in preventive mode versus constant rains
  
• Cadivi strikes out more fraudsters abusing the system
  
• Former anti-drugs czar questions seizure and use of narco assets
  
• BBVA denies trying to sell Venezuela bank for $2 billion
  
• Jasmine Enberg // Hugo Chavez threatening another TV station
  
• UNASUR Summit in Guyana approves Democratic Protocol
  
• Seeking cash, President Hugo Chavez looks to sell CITGO
  
• Mark Riddix // Who would buy CITGO from Hugo Chavez?
  
• Chavez: Russia has given Venezuela a $4 billion credit to purchase arms
  
• Venezuela buying 10-12 Chinese medium-range transport aircraft
  
• Benedict Mander // Christmas feast under threat in Venezuela
  
• President Chavez announces 14 tonnes of aid for rain victims in Colombia
  
• Heavy rains falling in Venezuela caused three more deaths in Caracas
  
• VenEconomy // A Mythomaniac Revolution

• Stabroek News editorial queries Guyana's role in Unasur chair
  
• Globovision's Guillermo Zuloaga is the toast of the town in Washington
  
• Zuloaga and Globovision represent Venezuela's rancid oligarchic castes
  
• New book on Simon Bolivar examines differences with Francisco de Miranda
  
• PDVAL rotten food trial will be public and oral for three scapegoats
  
• Venezuelan airlines welcome improvements at Caracas international airport
  
• Government buys into 81.2% of French capital Cativen supermarket JV
  
• VenEconomy // The plan goes, come Hell or High Water
  
• Russian-Venezuelan nuclear cooperation agreement comes into force
  
• Venezuela in trouble for not clearing anti-person landmines
  
• Prices of traditional Xmas hallacas get a new twist from government
  
• Dutch NGO attacks Venezuelan Navy defense contract with Dutch company
  
• PSUV to debate Chavez 3Rs square root proposals for next three years
  
• VenEconomy // Hugo Chavez has drawn his hatchet of war...

• Venezuela's debt payments in 2010-2011 at $14 billion; Debts $31.9 billion
  
• Venezuela's business sector rejects violation of economic rights
  
• Argentina's Ternium: No final payment yet for nationalization of Sidor
  
• Venezuela has had 11 years to clear mines on its border with Colombia
  
• Venezuelan government authorizes joint venture to construct refinery
  
• Venezuelan State powers sign Anti-Imperialist Manifesto
  
• Chico Carrasquel Foundation to start El Sistema pilot scheme in Chicago
  
• ID & Immigration chief orders arrest of corrupt officials at Valencia airport
  
• Opposition seeking contact with military officers through family and friends
  
• Venezuela open for business for those firms which wish to brave the risks
  
• VenEconomy // Information limbo on the horizon
  
• Chavez urges lawmakers to ban US financing of his opponents

• Globovision TV's Guillermo Zuloaga denies $100 million murder plot
  
• Venezuela's National Assembly rejects anti-ALBA Forum in Washington
  
• Ukraine starts pumping Venezuelan oil through Odessa-Brody pipeline
  
• Venezuela bans unauthorized use of President Hugo Chavez' image
  
• Chavez responds to President Obama's joke about visiting Venezuela
  
• Chavez announces 2012 re-election bid; warns return of the 'bourgeois'
  
• VenEconomy // where's the Bolivarian Revolution Going?
  
• World Organization Against Torture concerned about Venezuela

• Russian-Canadian Rusoro plans to increase gold production in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela foresees successful end to "rude" Exxon, ConocoPhillips claims
  
• Takeover and liquidation of brokerages published in the Official Gazette
  
• PDVSA, ENI to set up joint venture in Junin 5 block in the Orinoco Oil Belt
  
• Venezuela's Polar complains of "friction" with the Chavez government
  
• INCOSEC director says virtually anyone can be kidnapped in Venezuela
  
• Public sector imports up 47% to $5.4 billion; private sector down 22%
  
• "Venezuela safe haven for foreigners who are responsible for genocide"
  
• Rusoro exported 4,924.2 ounces of gold to Switzerland on November 17
  
• Venezuela to extradite FARC leaders only if guilty of narco-trafficking
  
• President Chavez: Government studies options vs.Globovision's Zuloaga
  
• CEO responsible for integrating FANB with the people … no going back
  
• Venezuela's Chavez calls opposition TV channel owner "A Fugitive."..
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez alleges $100 million plot to kill him
  
• Chris Herz // Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...
  
• USA hoped to use alleged cocaine kingpin to smear Chavez' government
  
• United Arab Emirates; GCAA agrees air services deal with Venezuela
  
• Venezuela to immediately request extraditions in Danilo Anderson case
  
• Venezuela: BP sells oil and gas production businesses for $1.8 billion
  
• Venezuelan state steelmaker Sidor hopes to double output for 2011
  
• Orchestral fireworks: Venezuelan conductor is sacked after walkout

• Venezuela renews indirect anti-narcotics relations with DEA via Colombia
  
• Military or civilians tainted by narco-trafficker Makled will be prosecuted
  
• The Anderson case: Venezuela asks US to extradite two suspects
  
• Opposition: FANB more divided because of Rangel Silva promotion
  
• "Chavez supports in Cuba the changes he rebutted in Venezuela"
  
• The Chavista revolution has done tremendous damage to Venezuela
  
• In Venezuela, remarks like 'Hitler didn't finish the job' are routine
  
• International Labor Organization asks to stop criminalization of protests

• Venezuela's Attorney General promises open trial of Makled, if extradited
  
• AN president announces extraordinary sessions to discuss reform laws
  
• Caracas Mayor Rodriguez gives workers extra month bonus as stimulus
  
• Guyana rice farmers send rice to Venezuela ... eliminating middlemen
  
• Sidor B Class shareholders and worker control advocates clash at CVG gates
  
• Arrest of six 'Arepera Socialista' staff illustrates Venezuela's uphill struggle
  
• Miami Herald's Andres Oppenheimer: Chavez and others distort Bolivar
  
• Thieves steal thirty new Canaima mini-computers from primary school
  
• Opposition deputy-elect says national budget for 2011 is more of the same
  
• Venezuela responds; sends emergency aid to St.Vincent & The Grenadines
  
• Interview with Maria Leon, newly elected MP for the PSUV in Aragua
  
• Venezuelan economy recovering but 15% devaluation expected in 2011
  
• Venezuela: Thousands demand passing of radical Labor Law
  
• China National Gold Group eyes Latin America, Russia for further growth
  
• Colombian and Venezuelan minsters to meet in Cartagena today, Friday
  
• President Chavez has reacted to opposition gains in September's election
  
• Belarus to get Venezuela oil from Novorossiisk via exchange with Glencore

• Oscar Heck // "Finally, the Chavez regime has fallen…"
  
• "Policies should be revised; otherwise, debt would take complicated path"
  
• Crystallex waiting with bated breath to mine for gold at Las Cristinas
  
• Venezuela, Iran and Nicaragua Plan to create "Nicaragua Canal"
  
• Technip awarded major offshore contract for Mariscal Sucre development
  
• Poverty level in Venezuela drops by 26%; extreme poverty down 7.2%
  
• Venezuela's top food co plans major investments despite takeover threats
  
• Venezuela's communist "revolution" has morbid tendency to distort reality
  
• Venezuela's Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) to reopen 2017 bond
  
• General Motors: Venezuela has good prospects in 2011

• Venezuela's GDP decline is almost zero, says Planning Minister Giordani
  
• Spanish Foreign Min. insists there are no political prisoners in Venezuela
  
• Recession continues in Venezuela; GDP tumbles 0.4%
  
• Three Colombian kidnappers are captured and deported
  
• Ros-Lehtinen criticizes democratic "decline" in Venezuela and allies
  
• Chris Herz // Can you imagine US President Sarah Palin after 2012?
  
• President Chavez warning: any coup will be met by counter-coup
  
• Federal Council of Government agrees to budget based on $40 a barrel
  
• AN president welcomes Makled extradition to Venezuela and not USA
  
• Connie Mack outraged over transfer of noted drug kingpin to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // A fence of thorns for the regions
  
• Socialist International rejects Rangel Silva's statements

• Colombia to extradite alleged drug kingpin Walid Makled to Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan Maria Espinoza pleads guilty to charges in fatal wreck
  
• Abuse by authorities and Rangel's case aired at Socialist International
  
• Executive Office concedes obstacles to better wages of public servants
  
• Attorney General has sent 93 housing fraud cases to court in one year
  
• Ambassador Valero repeats call for extradition of Cuban Miami terrorist
  
• Venezuela and Belarus discuss advance on cooperation projects
  
• Belarus to pay for test pumping of Venezuelan oil through Ukraine
  
• Venezuela and China enhance cooperation between the two militaries
  
• As everyone knows, a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth...
  
• Florida Rep. Connie Mack: Stand up to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
  
• VZLA conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa walks out on Philharmonic Orchestra
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to Spain steps down in the next few days
  
• Gas production in Venezuela's giant offshore field to start in 2013

• Venezuela in the dock of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  
• President Hugo Chavez: Takeover of apartments will not be compensated
  
• Venezuelans' purchasing power crumbled 4.9% in the last year
  
• Russia's Glavmosstroy to build 300,000 sq.m. of housing in Venezuela
  
• Italian Eni, Spanish Repsol expect Venezuela gas field early output
  
• Chavez: The State is ready and able to defend the suffering middle class
  
• Chavez admits faults in metro system, appeals to the 'decent' Venezuela
  
• Jerry Brewer // Political polarization in Venezuela emits unclear message
  
• Chinese General Chen Bingde: Military keen on exchange with Venezuela
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez to attend Ibero American Summit
  
• Benedict Mander // Chavez moves to radicalized revolution...
  
• Two hurt in accident at Venezuela's 180,000 bpd Petropiar oil upgrader
  
• Stratfor // Makled's threat to the Venezuelan Regime
  
• Fred Cederholm /// Quack, quack, quack… for another month yet!
  
• Venezuelan police find three tonnes marijuana on truck from Colombia
  
• 33 arrested; accused of "sabotage" and "hijacking" Caracas Metro trains
  
• Venezuelan banks owed more than $1 billion in outstanding debts...
  
• First step taken to allow the government to take over private banks
  
• Oliver L Campbell: PDVSA versus oil-related arbitration claims
  
• Mary MacElveen // Is Fallujah, Iraq our economic penance? Oh you betcha!
  
• Andrew McKillop // Can Neutron Money Save the Global Economy?
  
• Inflation in Venezuela is a weird thing ... rather extreme and at times...

• Last minute delay to resolution on Venezuela's gold mining sector!
  
• Oscar Heck // This is one of the main reasons why I love Venezuela …
  
• Venezuela's climate change warrior says the Kyoto Protocol must stay
  
• Diego Arria questions Agriculture Ministry video on Yaracuy coffee
  
• Colombia's Supreme Court to decide on Walid Makled extradition
  
• Regina Conley // Venezuela: A Vibrant Democracy?
  
• Benedict Mander // The banks: Chavez' next target?
  
• Belarus thanks Venezuela's support to overcome the crisis
  
• PDVSA gives contract for Mariscal Sucre platform to France's Technip
  
• Workers at CVG-Venalum say they are tiring of old-style trade unionism
  
• Ombudswoman Ramirez defends situation room and right to a house
  
• President Chavez promotes controversial General Henry Rangel Silva
  
• AN revs up its engines to consolidate the Castro-communist project
  
• Venezuela seizes Aeropostal airline owned by accused drug trafficker
  
• Venezuela's anti-drug Czar denies arrested kingpin's corruption allegations
  
• Venezuelan banks may be forced to surrender 5% of profits under new law

• Early resolution to Las Cristinas will put paid to "capitalist" speculations
  
• Open letter from Ambassador Diego Arria to General Henry Rangel Silva
  
• OAS' Jose Miguel Insulza rejects statements made by Venezuelan General
  
• Venezuela: Six national academies propose institutional reconstruction
  
• Positive result does not tally with the true situation facing Venezuelans
  
• Venezuelan minister says talks with Saudi Arabian officials was fruitful
  
• Venezuelan government policy fails to attack the causes of inflation
  
• Chris Herz // VHeadline's the Best!
  
• Climate change comeback or fast forward to New World Order money?
  
• Eva Golinger // Washington increases clandestine ops against Venezuela

• George W. Bush calls Chavez "the Mugabe of South America"
  
• Venezuelan tried to smuggle cocaine worth almost $804,000 into the UK
  
• VenEconomy // Explaining the Venezuelan situation to a Martian
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela: a different kind of food crisis
  
• Venezuela's Empresas Polar to team up with Spain's Leche Pascual
  
• Reflections about transcending the dialectics of Reform and Revolution

• Joel D. Hirst // Walid Makled: First threat to the Santos-Chavez Lovefest
  
• VZLA's Embassy hosts event marking anniversary of Palestinian Intifada
  
• Oliver L Campbell // Abreu y Lima Refinery investment should be cancelled
  
• Chavez' boomerang: Effort to woo middle class with expropiations backfires
  
• IAPA requests international support for owners of Venezuelan channel
  
• Chavez is being unmasked as a mastermind of a criminal regime...
  
• VenEconomy // Acid from Cuba
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Cuba to meet the Castro brothers
  
• Political polarization has sparked a green movement in Venezuela
  
• Andrew McKillop // Atomic surprises...

• Chavez: United States is trying to initiate another plot against Venezuela
  
• Indigenous protesters demand recognition of ancestral lands in Venezuela
  
• Colombian trade mission travels to Venezuela to start bi-lateral negotiations
  
• Venezuelan military would "not accept" an elected opposition government
  
• Chavez says that the Venezuelan opposition treats drug lord as a "hero"
  
• QE2 will work no better than QE1 ... it all began on Jekyll Island!
  
• The Las Cristinas dream remains "dead in the limbo of incompetence..."
  
• Rusoro's PMG trade union pleased but keeping quiet on Las Cristinas
  
• Chavez in Cuba to review cooperation and deepen ALBA projects
  
• Government and opposition united in honoring Domingo Maza Zavala
  
• Chris Herz // If you don't understand Washington now, when will you?
  
• Oliver L Campbell // PDVSA and those pending arbitration claims
  
• President Chavez warns of attempts to "wreck" Venezuela-Colombia ties
  
• Chavez says accused drug kingpin Walid Makled will go to Venezuela
  
• Iran and Venezuela ink Nano co-operation seal
  
• President Hugo Chavez targets freedom of press says IAPA
  
• Venezuelan Elizabeth Mosquera wins Miss International 2010 title
  
• President Hugo Chavez defends state takeovers of residential complexes
  
• Colombian kidnap victim Ana Judith Agudelo freed in Venezuela
  
• Two Ukrainian sailors convicted of cocaine trafficking to be extradited
  
• VenEconomy // On the brink of a break in diplomatic relations?
  
• Caracas bristles at Spanish comments about ETA and Venezuela

• Ambassador Ishmael: LAC exports are expected to grow by 21.4% in 2010
  
• Venezuelan Foreign Minister strikes up strategic alliance with Turkey
  
• Gov'mt woos middle class families swindled by construction companies
  
• Venezuela's opposition accuses Spain of interfering in internal affairs
  
• Spain must end 'soundbite blitz' linking Venezuela to ETA separatists
  
• National Assembly passes law setting up bicentenary public stock exchange
  
• Venezuela: How can we fight for a PSUV which serves the workers and poor?
  
• Venezuelan man sets world free-diving record in underwater tunnel network
  
• Venezuelan cardinal urges faithful to unite around Catholic bishops
  
• Venezuela ranks low as place to do business, report says
  
• Arizona man indicted for exporting military aircraft engines to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // A war of planned destruction
  
• Flute virtuoso brings Venezuela's musical traditions to Tokyo
  
• 500 tonnes of rotten black beans found in 25 containers in Puerto Cabello
  
• World Bank: Venezuela has the worst business climate in the region
  
• Asdrubal Aguiar: Venezuela should be subject to global oversight

• 2,000 kilos gold produced instead of 8,000 that had been the goal...
  
• World Bank: Venezuela has the worst business climate in the region
  
• Asdrubal Aguiar: Venezuela should be subject to global oversight
  
• Andres Cala // Hugo Chavez' anti-terrorism credentials tested by Spain
  
• New trade and development agenda proposal from Latin America etc
  
• Venezuelan government pulls drug-trafficking themed 'telenovelas' off the air
  
• IOE asks VZLA government to investigate attack against business leaders
  
• Turkey to buy fuel from Venezuela and invest in its oil and gas sector
  
• Jackson Diehl // How Castro and Chavez lost the 2010 elections
  
• Santiago Sosa // Colombia and Venezuela ... a dysfunctional couple
  
• Venezuela's Chavez, Colombia's Santos sign 'Miraflores Declaration'
  
• Thousands gathered in shelters, affected by heavy rains in Venezuela
  
• BCV president Merentes adamant that one-digit inflation possible by 2013
  
• Tourism Minister Alejandro Fleming: domestic tourism rose 13% in 2010
  
• Embarrassing hunger strike by employees at VenIran JV tractor plant
  
• Russian AvtoVAZ has begun exporting its "Lada" vehicles to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // Following the clues of revolutionary destruction
  
• Chavez allies back Basque separatist fighting extradition to Spain
  
• Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro kicks off three-country tour
  
• Storm stops 130,000 barrels-per-day Petroanzoategui oil upgrader again
  
• Hopefully this will keep Obama and his men too busy to attack Venezuela

• Khan petitions TSJ to declare Crystallex' Las Cristinas contract null & void!
  
• Venezuela's tax agency attains 2010 tax collection goal
  
• PDVSA's social contribution amounts to $69.3 billion
  
• Venezuela Finance Minister: 2011 budget is prudent
  
• Spain releases former police officer wanted by Venezuelan authorities
  
• Crystallex duped by AN deputies and delays in environmental permits...
  
• Chavez, Santos "committed to not allowing anyone derail" their relation
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) to supply Colombia with 7,700 bpd fuel
  
• Las Cristinas' golden future lies in Rusoro-RusTech and Minerven JV
  
• Santos and Chavez satisfied with progress towards economic integration
  
• Michael Rowan // No you can't
  
• Venezuela sending 15,000 soldiers to border to root out irregulars
  
• National Assembly approves Russian-Venezuelan nuclear energy agreement
  
• CVAL's Urteaga confirms agricultural advances in Lara State Turbio valley
  
• Venezuela, Colombia sign energy agreements, vowing to revive lost trade
  
• Joel Hirst // The Bolivarian Alliance & Hugo Chavez' propaganda machine
  
• Venezuela expects rulings in Exxon/ConocoPhillips compensation claims
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has $400 million for Brazil refinery
  
• Venezuela authorizes payment of $336 million to Colombian exporters
  
• Venezuelan man found guilty on drug smuggling charge in USA

• Minister Khan defends expropriation of Sidetur for coveted iron rods
  
• Government wins brownie points taking over uncompleted housing projects
  
• Two more construction workers murdered in Ciudad Guayana
  
• Rusoro Mining gets thumbs up from Venezuelan gold-mining communities
  
• VenEconomy // Even more evident how truly evil Chavez' revolution is
  
• Minister: Power outages are due to dependence on foreign firms
  
• PDVSA's Petroanzoategui heavy oil upgrader resumes operations
  
• Alan Woods // where is the Venezuelan Revolution going?

• Crystallex gets taste of its own medicine as it follows PDG out the door
  
• Tabloid claims National Assembly approved CVG and Crystallex deal
  
• Venezuela's Ombudswoman proposes HR commission within Unasur
  
• Venezuela's energy agreements with Russia amount to $4 billion
  
• Colombia-Venezuela presidential meeting to be held in Miraflores
  
• Chavez will nationalize more before next presidential election in 2012
  
• Venezuelan steel maker Sidetur to challenge government takeover
  
• Venezuela's Fedecamaras expects government to protect economic rights
  
• Expropriate it! The Chavez approach to Venezuela's housing shortage
  
• Chavez orders expropriation of largest privately-owned steel producer
  
• Rusoro receives final permits to commence offshore gold sales
  
• Chris Herz // Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius II
  
• About 100 passengers evacuated from plane due to accident in Venezuela
  
• President Hugo Chavez lists cacao as Venezuelan strategic product
  
• President Hugo Chavez' nuke push is a problem the US needs to face
  
• Uncle $ugar is "borrowing" upwards of $4 billion every day to pay his bills