• 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...