• 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