• Fred Cederholm // We're in deep doo doo right now on literally every front!
  
• Opposition TV continues to dominate in Venezuela, new paper finds
  
• President Hugo Chavez expropriates 43 farms in Zulia and Merida
  
• Fedenaga president Heredia calls takeover of 43 landed estates "plunder"
  
• National Assembly (AN) discusses bill to reform the media law
  
• Popular Power Law passed in National Assembly (AN) permanent session
  
• Communes Law passed and sent to Chavez for review and promulgation
  
• President Hugo Chavez wants the AN to grant him Enabling Law powers
  
• President Hugo Chavez welcomes appointment of new TSJ magistrates
  
• Francisco Sesto is Minister of State for Urban Reconstruction of Caracas
  
• South of Lake Maracaibo ranchers ready for show-down with government
  
• President Hugo Chavez has chance to revamp the Bolivarian revolution
  
• Neil Reynolds // Chavez and the good old days of Marxist misadventure
  
• Venezuelan President receives UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah
  
• US 'tried to stop delivery of Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Venezuela'
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to govern from a Bedouin tent