• 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