• Uncle $ugar seems to love the dictators (if they are our "friends" that is)!
  
• Vice President rules out no hypotheses in CAVIM military arsenal fire
  
• More cholera cases raise concern among Venezuelan health authorities
  
• Canary Island President's private visit to Venezuela leaves bitter taste
  
• Banco Provincial is safe … Casa Propia intervened for bad practice
  
• MIJ denies any raid on AN deputy Gomez Sigala's residence in Caracas
  
• AgroVenezuela program gets underway with Bs.F 1 billion first-stage fund
  
• Ranchers and agricultural producers welcome debt pardon for farmers' losses
  
• Fire, explosions at CAVIM military depot; thousands evacuated, 1 killed
  
• Ban on foreign funding leaves activists in limbo about whether they're targets
  
• Mary Anastasia O'Grady // After the Flood in Venezuela
  
• BBVA to remain a private bank in Venezuela as executive apologizes...
  
• Internet Access: Formidable tool to curb and control mass mobilizations!
  
• London Metropolitan University hosts 1st ALBA-PTA conference
  
• China Clay mining and manufacturing to begin soon in south-east Guayana

• Jeannie DeAngelis // Investing in Venezuela's future
  
• Venezuela may review licenses granted to foreign oil companies
  
• Proposed Russian-CVAL banana JV in Zulia comes under fire
  
• Desperate PDVSA warns JVs to increase production ... or else
  
• Uruguay and Venezuela sign important agricultural exchange accord
  
• Higher University Minister welcomes level of dialogue with rectors
  
• Polar Co. trade unionists plan 5,000-worker march vs. expropriations
  
• Cases of cholera in Lara State … health bodies on alert
  
• CITGO launches US poor families' cheap heating oil program for sixth year
  
• Garbage washed ashore on Venezuelan beaches from Trinidad & Tobago
  
• Stabroek News Editorial // Pragmatic Mr Chavez
  
• VenEconomy // Whipping them into submission
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela's private currency war
  
• Chavez and Uruguay's Mujica meet, sign numerous bilateral agreements
  
• AN deputy rules out nationalization of banking sector in Venezuela
  
• Research firm Datos Poll: 70% of Venezuelans rejects expropriations
  
• Search party plans return to Venezuela in six months to seek missing pilot

• Colombia and Venezuela prepare joint anti-drugs cooperation accord
  
• TeleSur president Izarra appoints Colombian Villegas to run TV network
  
• Rodriguez Araque leaves Electrical Energy -- preparing for Unasur
  
• Camiven president paints doomsday in Venezuela's mining sector
  
• Leading private bank works with government to provide housing credits
  
• Cholera enters Venezuela from the Dominican Republic
  
• Empreven business sector to build 25,000 houses with government
  
• CVG-Alcasa worker-president slams trade unions for "silly stoppage"
  
• President Hugo Chavez assures middle class that he will fight for them
  
• Venezuelan takeover deals Owens-Illinois loss for 2010
  
• VenEconomy: An Achilles' heel for the ill-named "Bolivarian revolution"
  
• VenEconomy: Chavez has become expert at implementing half measures
  
• Cardinal exhorts Venezuelans to imitate strength of persecuted Christians
  
• Primero Justicia submits bill to compensate victims of violence in VZLA
  
• Venezuelan dissenters meet with members of the European Parliament
  
• Andrew McKillop // Islamic power returns to Tunisia
  
• Whether it is Caracas, Tehran, or Riyadh that stops the flow of oil to the west

• Venezuelan authorities implement plan for delayed and rerouted flights
  
• Chavez may expropriate Spanish-owned bank for refusing to grant loans
  
• Venezuelan protesters force President Hugo Chavez to cancel new law
  
• Venezuela urged to release Judge Afiuni held without trial for over a year
  
• "Vital areas for housing projects" to be seized by the Venezuelan army
  
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) report could harm Venezuela's foreign affairs
  
• Venezuelan central government deficit stood at 4.02% of GDP in 2010
  
• ALBA ally uncovers PM assassination plot in St. Vincent & Grenadines
  
• Damage limitation exercise by Bolivarian National Police director Fernandez
  
• VZLA Peasant Federation's Luis Hidalgo raises concern about census
  
• Defending Fung's managerial style ... "not to mention the lunacy of Chavez!"
  
• CICPC arrests two Metropolitan Police officers accused of VIP robbery
  
• National Assembly (AN) gets ready to grill ministers beginning February 8-9
  
• US embassy cables throw light on relations with private VZLA media
  
• Venezuela: To celebrate free expression, Chavez shuts down media
  
• Venezuelan President condones US$10.3 million debt to farmers
  
• Venezuela's Chavez insists he needs more time to complete his revolution
  
• President Hugo Chavez at ex-Smurfit farm with new deals for farmers
  
• Venezuelan steelmakers call for measures to resuscitate industry sector
  
• Power outage at Caracas airport ... temporary shutdown, flights rerouted
  
• Coca-Cola shortages grow as 11-day strike continues at Femsa bottlers
  
• President Hugo Chavez puts aside mockery of golf as a "bourgeois" sport
  
• Venezuela will extradite paramilitary hit man "El Mono Candelo"
  
• United States warns against Hugo Chavez' economic pressures on media
  
• Franz J. T. Lee // Venezuela: In Defense of the Internet while it still lasts

• President Hugo Chavez is blamed for blocking CAP's divorce papers
  
• Opposition's Andres Velasquez fiddles around with housing statistics
  
• Farmers gearing up for struggle to keep their properties in western VZLA
  
• Chavez using Venezuela's judiciary to persecute his political opponents...
  
• VenEconomy // Ratifying the Central Bank's destruction
  
• Venezuelan kin reject provisional home for Carlos Andres Perez' body
  
• Turkey set to cooperate with Venezuela on energy and housing project
  
• Jose Khan: China cooperation will boost Venezuela's industrial capacity
  
• Deadline looming for VZLA withdrawal from Andean Community of Nations

• Walid Makled: "Everyone in the Chavez government is drug trafficker..."
  
• Human Rights Watch (HRW): HR situation in Venezuela is "precarious"
  
• No clashes reported between government and opposition 23 Enero rallies
  
• Venezuelan government tackles squatter surge in Chacao (Caracas)
  
• President Hugo Chavez: We work for the People and the middle class
  
• CVG-Venalum following Alcasa management process … two new cells
  
• Health Minister replies to Maria Corina Machado on millennium goals
  
• Rival marches mark anniversary of VZLA dictator Perez Jimenez' ouster
  
• Benedict Mander // Chavez wrongfoots opposition with conciliatory tone
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias: "I will be President until 2019"
  
• Squatters attempt massive invasion in Venezuelan capital, Caracas
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez may quit as PSUV party leader
  
• Chavez: A tireless champion of the poor and committed Christian socialist
  
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review // Placating Chavez?
  
• The truth of PDVAL ... at least 130,000 tonnes of food was spoiled
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez won't relinquish special powers yet
  
• $80 million above market prices for shipping crude in exchange for kickbacks
  
• Suspended Venezuelan RCTV television channel seeks return to the air
  
• Walter T. Molano // Venezuela ... Hell on Earth
  
• Colombia reports lack of cooperation from Venezuela on border security
  
• Eva Golinger ... Venezuela's "sweetheart" champions Hugo Chavez
  
• Opposition submits proposals for dialogue in Venezuelan Congress
  
• Pensions as bargaining chips used to negotiate down salaries and wages

• President Hugo Chavez withdraws offer to limit Enabling law timetable
  
• Messrs. Diosdado Cabello and Julio Borges duel in parliamentary debate
  
• Isla de Margarita tourism president Nunez rails against Tourism Ministry
  
• Former Petrocasa spokesperson Carrera blames delays on bad management
  
• CVG-Venalum union leaders barricade entrance to plant with their cars
  
• Joel Hirst // President Chavez and the Organization of American States
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez won't give up decree powers in Venezuela
  
• Strategy Page // The Militias of Venezuela
  
• Anna Mahjar-Barducci // Opposition seeks support in Washington DC
  
• Turkey's energy minister Yildiz meets Venezuela's President in Caracas
  
• Case of jailed union leader draws condemnation from HR groups
  
• Oscar Heck // So what does all this have to do with lies and manipulations?

• Sunday 1/23 may be make or break for Venezuela ... eventually, America
  
• Lara Governor Henri Falcon: Opposition has President Chavez on the run
  
• Dutch take VZLA to court over Fama de America coffee compensation
  
• Venezuela's rural militia and reservists hold first annual planning meeting
  
• Tourism Minister: Spanish tourists encouraged to come to Venezuela
  
• Gang specialized in robbing tourists to Venezuela's Margarita Island
  
• Ex-CIA operative Luis Posada's English skills at issue in perjury trial
  
• Venezuelan government guarantees services for rain victims
  
• Venezuelan parliament calls for debate on Hugo Chavez' Annual Report
  
• VenEconomy // The Venezuela Banana Swap
  
• WikiLeaks: Lula was afraid of Venezuela's purchase of Russian aircrafts
  
• Venezuelan government plans to adopt measures in the agri-food sector
  
• Far away from Venezuela's Caribbean shores; Anette Göttrick is cool...

• Opposition compare Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez with Hugo Chavez
  
• SIDOR union leaders deeply divided over the latest work stoppage
  
• Households have been seriously hit by higher inflation in Latin America
  
• Venezuela hopes for first new output of 50,000 bpd from Orinoco this year
  
• Venezuelan government says it may regulate private firms' profits
  
• Basque ETA terrorists move to Venezuela, team up with Colombia's FARC
  
• President Chavez prepares shelter law to meet national emergencies
  
• Venezuela: Blackberry cellphones become most coveted and stolen item
  
• SIDOR to boost production of steel rods for national housing plan
  
• Fogade president David Alastre: financial system healthy and protected
  
• National Lands Institute arson -- "political act of sabotage and terrorism"
  
• Turkish energy minister wants to contribute to Venezuela's oil production
  
• Housing shortage continues in Venezuela; 300.000 people homeless
  
• US Drug Czar gives props to Venezuela plan to shoot down drug planes
  
• Venezuela arrests nine opposition activists on suspicion of INTI arson
  
• VenEconomy // One of the iron hands behind the silk gauntlet
  
• VenEconomy // More like an amnesiac's purely fictitious ramblings
  
• Venezuela's latest PDVSA $3.15 billion bond sale may be tip of iceberg
  
• President Chavez meets with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino
  
• Governor: Rebels commit crimes on Venezuela's border with Colombia

• Joe Weisenthal // Finally over for Venezuela and the Chavez regime?
  
• Internet Access War: Venezuela to connect Cuba bypassing USA
  
• Opposition deputy: Venezuela's Mercosur entry depends on return to CAN
  
• Parents struggling with Caracas nightmare; agonizing over dead son...
  
• What's behind (and beyond) Hugo Chavez' calls for Open Dialogue
  
• Dissenting governors urge President Chavez to uphold reconciliation
  
• Venezuelan government controls national stores to avoid speculation
  
• Venezuela fosters new integration mechanism in Latin American Parliament
  
• Opposition deputy calls Venezuelan Army's Plan Caura "treasonable"
  
• Venezuela: Six states hit by electricity blackout … Minister apologizes
  
• SIDOR not producing enough steel rods for the building industry
  
• PSUV deputies will continue to push for dialogue and debate
  
• Zulia rancher leader Carlos Benavides accused of torching INTI building
  
• New Bolivarian National Police force reduces domestic violence 66%

• Venezuela's President Chavez on "fast-track" to legislate against speculation
  
• Venezuelan government fails to meet goal of 120,000 housing units
  
• Naomi Mapstone // Latin America: soap operas or real life?
  
• Venezuela: Chuao Chocolatier named 2011 Good Food Award winner
  
• OilPrice.com: Venezuela's oil industry hurting despite huge reserves
  
• Venezuela's Briqven to invest US$9 million to operate at 100% capacity
  
• Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to pay 3-day visit to Venezuela
  
• Chavez insists that 2011 will see a significant spike in economic growth
  
• Stone-faced opposition throw olive branches back at President Chavez
  
• Dialogue offered but Venezuela's opposition keeps its distance
  
• Opposition MUD plumps for confrontation, ignoring dialogue and politics
  
• Soto Rojas defends Enabling Law; wants to mark Angostura Congress
  
• Venezuela: Would we wake up one morning and find the USA gone?
  
• Venezuela parties warily welcome Chavez olive branch
  
• Venezuela: Oil reserves surpasses Saudi Arabia's
  
• Iran, Venezuela and Libya see no harm in $100 oil
  
• Energy Minister Ramirez: Iran needs Venezuelan gasoline no more
  
• Venezuela's Chavez willing to let decree powers expire in May
  
• Venezuela nabs suspect accused of links to violent Mexican Cartel
  
• Venezuela is considering shooting down planes loaded with illegal drugs
  
• Williams F1 announces partnership with Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)
  
• Workers at the Venezuela's Coca-Cola plant in Valencia on strike
  
• Americans and British ... two peoples separated by the same language
  
• Greetings from snow-bound Vellinge in southern Sweden!

• Venezuela angry at Colombia television mocking "Little Hugo"
  
• Oliver L Campbell // The Bandagro bonds saga
  
• WikiLeak: Costa Rica suspected Venezuelan spying
  
• National Statistics Institute is sure that domestic economy will grow
  
• Venezuela Tax Agency closed 2,022 businesses In Zulia during 2010
  
• Vargas Llosa: What is happening in Venezuela is catastrophic
  
• Former Caracas Daily Journal reporter Peggy Voight dies
  
• Colombian exports to Venezuela slip 70% in 2010
  
• Venezuela says oil exports fell 6% in 2010 t0 2.32 million bpd
  
• Venezuela among the countries where democracy has reversed
  
• Venezuela crude, products exports rise 10% in December
  
• Dissenters ask for OAS action to normalize Venezuelan institutions
  
• Venezuela's relationship with the Basque separatist group ETA
  
• Peter Krupa // The slow death of a democracy
  
• Chavez urges PSUV to lead the people's struggles
  
• Romanian drug dealer Pascalau Ilie Tudor arrested in Venezuela
  
• Ecuador, Venezuela trade using new virtual currency

• Oscar Heck // No wonder Venezuela was such a mess!

• Spain is certain that ETA members seek refuge in Venezuela
  
• Ecuador rebuts Insulza's opinion on Chavez' enabling law
  
• Opposition deputy: Debate on enabling law at the OAS is a step forward
  
• Nicaragua's Ortega: OAS Secretary-General plots against Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan Parliament calls Chavez to present 2010 Report
  
• AN went overboard in an incredibly intense flurry of legislative activity
  
• VenEconomy // Breaking its own record of incompetence
  
• President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela has upped proven oil reserves
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez urged to renounce new powers
  
• Venezuela PDVSA developing offshore gas exploration technology

• Trade unions call for government emergency in Guayana's basic industries
  
• Roman Catholic leaders warn of a totalitarian system in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela state-run Stock Exchange will begin operations next week
  
• Opposition plans to ask for Venezuela's entry into Mercosur
  
• Geoffrey Da Silva to be new Guyana ambassador to Venezuela
  
• Ecuador exports 5,000 tonnes of crude African palm oil to Venezuela
  
• Venezuela state-run power company hurt by large unpaid accounts
  
• VZLA government demands US$3 billion from PDVSA to build houses
  
• AT&T Williams to run 2010 Cosworth FW32 racecar in Venezuela on Friday
  
• Citigroup's latest report does not rule out another Venezuelan devaluation
  
• Latin America Monitor: Venezuela ... January 2011 Risk Summary
  
• Venezuela provides free education to more than eight million students
  
• US Senator John McCain views Venezuela's Chavez as "undemocratic"
  
• Venezuela's Catholic bishops rule out calling for foreign intervention
  
• Luis Posada Carriles trial opens with little mention of 'terrorism'
  
• Venezuela oil production in 2010 fell below 2003 level
  
• Venezuela government accuses landowners of using "slave labor"
  
• Electricity Minister Ali Rodriguez to cut lights at late-paying state-run companies
  
• Venezuelan steelmaker announces investment plan to expand production
  
• President Hugo Chavez blasts OAS for 'interference' In Venezuela
  
• NEWSWEEK: Under duress at home, Chavez tones it down
  
• Venezuelan bishops oppose law giving more power to President Chavez

• The rhetoric of violence is what has made headlines around the world...
  
• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Monday, January 10, 2011
  
• Now locked in a totally dark room, we have no clue about what is to devour us
  
• Perez' family in Venezuela hopes to have remains returned soon
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls burning of government building terrorism
  
• Laurent Labrique // Poverty drops in Venezuela
  
• Chavez in trouble as Russia and China look elsewhere for energy security
  
• Posada Carriles will be tried only for lying, says Lawyer Jose Pertierra
  
• Venezuela: Epicenter of changes in Latin America
  
• Jeannie DeAngelis // Who will be USA's next ambassador to Venezuela?
  
• Can Venezuelans throw off their shackles? ...that's an open question!
  
• Chavez dismisses concern expressed by OAS Secretary-General Insulza
  
• National Land Institute regional headquarters burned, arson suspected
  
• Venezuela Defense and Security Report Q1 2011
  
• A 10-year-old girl has survived a fatal plane crash in western Venezuela
  
• Eva Golinger // Setting the record straight on Venezuela and Hugo Chavez

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Friday, January 7, 2011
  
• Ambassador Palmer is qualified but wrong guy at wrong place at wrong time!
  
• Stabroek News (Guyana) // Venezuela and 'the Cuban package'
  
• Relatives ask Miami judge to order body of ex-leader turned over for burial
  
• Venezuela's Pastor Maldonado in Williams Formula One home demo drive
  
• Chavez and supporters remain defiant as opponents fill parliament
  
• Second contraction year for Venezuela; 2% expansion forecasted in 2011
  
• Venezuelan authorities recapture convicted drug trafficker Larry Tovar Acuna
  
• Senior US diplomat says Chavez' decree powers are undemocratic
  
• Peter Kornbluh // Former CIA asset Luis Posada Carilles goes to trial
  
• Ambassadorial High Jinks: Will Barack Obama cave in on Venezuela?
  
• Venezuela to buy Azerbaijani oil to meet contractual obligations to Belarus
  
• Alfredo Bremont // Capitalism has reached its limits...

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Thursday, January 6, 2011
  
• Protests and insults as the new Venezuelan parliament begins 2011
  
• Patriotic Pole constructing a democratic, honorable, sovereign homeland...
  
• China clears way for $8.7 billion Venezuela refinery joint venture
  
• United States-Venezuela diplomatic dispute continues...
  
• United States rejects Venezuelan President's suggestion of new US envoy
  
• James Robbins // Venezuela: A divided country?
  
• Elizabeth Marcano's Ann Arbor take-iut offers a taste of Venezuela
  
• Paramedic wins bravery award for heroic efforts after Venezuelan plane crash
  
• Tim Padgett // Why Chavez happened: Carlos Andres Perez' legacy
  
• Venezuela: What should be debated in our schools, missions and universities?

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Wednesday, January 5, 2011
  
• Oscar Heck // 62% normal Venezuelans versus 38% money-drones...
  
• Get me Bill Clinton, says Hugo Chavez after vetoing US ambassador
  
• Venezuela claims victory in diplomatic row with the United States
  
• President Hugo Chavez celebrated the holidays with a flurry of autocracy
  
• President Chavez scraps controversial university law and planned tax hike
  
• Venezuela says it has nearly paid off its debt to Colombian exporters
  
• Legal battle looms over body of former President Carlos Andres Perez
  
• I can see Oscar Heck loves Venezuela ... so do I so we are panas burdas!

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  
• Crystallex International / Las Cristinas gold mine ... What happened!?
  
• Leave it to Hugo Chavez to turn natural calamity into political opportunity
  
• United States and Venezuela in new diplomatic crisis...
  
• Matt Gurney // Chavez and the Drug Smugglers
  
• Chinese offer to build additional rail line for FMO in Venezuela
  
• Chavez' Lines -- Happy New Year 2011!
  
• United States may nominate new Venezuela envoy
  
• Hillary Clinton and Hugo Chavez: the face of Obama's engagement
  
• New Venezuela parliament faces empowered Chavez
  
• Venezuela prices up after new devaluation
  
• Venezuela warns "speculators" after devaluation
  
• Andrew Mellon // Hugo Chavez takes over the Federal Reserve
  
• Graig Klein // Hugo Chavez is feeling the squeeze
  
• President Hugo Chavez highlights people's role in fighting adversity
  
• Adriaan Alsema // 'Chavez must fight guerrillas to avoid internal crisis'
  
• Chavez has stirred up Venezuelan politics and infuriated opponents
  
• Colombia expects Venezuela to extradite ELN-rebel soon...
  
• Venezuelan leader led his country from prosperity to chaos
  
• Mike Whitney // Why Washington hates Hugo Chavez
  
• Shamus Cooke // Last chance for Venezuela's Revolution?