• When will the mentally enslaved USAers wake up from their catatonic state?
  
• The Economist // Could Venezuela really go bankrupt?
  
• Federal Council secures funding for public security projects from eight states
  
• President Chavez: government and opposition can work together to fight crime
  
• Strike over: CVG and Alcasa aluminum unions agree timetable of payments
  
• Venezuelan-Libyan cooperation agreements jeopardized by civil war
  
• AN president: Patriotic Pole only possible when powers democratized
  
• Chavez and Jaua in 27F commemoration events in Petare
  
• Agriculture Minister parries questions from Gomez Sigala on Turbio valley
  
• Media fails to provide list of questions to ministers from parliamentarians
  
• From Latin America to the Arab World -- What's going on in Libya?
  
• Could Venezuela see her future in the oily crystal ball of Libya?

• Libya: Col Gaddafi's son 'in hiding on Venezuelan island'
  
• WikiLeaks cables proves Venezuelan President, a long-time ally of Gaddafi
  
• Venezuela's Chavez administration puts itself on the line to back Gaddafi
  
• Venezuela says US and allies fomenting violence in Libya to justify invasion
  
• US journalist reports harassment by Venezuelan intelligence agents
  
• Venezuela says in talks for $4 billion China finance
  
• Venezuelan Finance Minister says high inflation not Chavez' fault
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuela's whoppers, fibs, and tall stories

• Venezuelan Ambassador says Tripoli is "totally calm" ... no deaths!
  
• WikiLeaks: US State Department documents confirm plans against Venezuela
  
• President Hugo Chavez sees the writing on the Middle-Eastern wall
  
• Why Is TeleSur a Flop? NarcoNews editor Al Giordano throws a hissy fit!
  
• VZLA's opposition parties agree to primary to pick presidential candidate
  
• WikiLeaks: Uribe promoted military raids in Venezuela
  
• Supreme Tribunal of Justice president Luisa Estella Morales is re-elected
  
• Chavez opponent Biagio Pilieri freed from house arrest in Venezuela
  
• No one can deny that Venezuela's private sector continues to decline
  
• Luis Senior // What is happening in Libya?

• VENEZUELA : Government yields to student hunger strikers
  
• Editorial // Venezuela feels the heat
  
• Venezuela's Agriculture Minister: 2010 saw 44% rise in national production
  
• Economy shows difference between capitalist and socialist proponents
  
• Commerce Minister highlights success of government marketing system in 2010
  
• Mibam Min defends government over Sidor; admits problems in Guayana
  
• Tourism Minister Fleming defends domestic tourism policy in Parliament
  
• Adam Thomson // It is hard not to shed a tear for Venezuela...
  
• Martin Arostegui // Gaddafi in Venzuela? The rumor's enough for a Red Alert
  
• Six die in twin-engine Cessna 340 plane crash in Venezuela
  
• Hidroven to complete US$201 million Clavellinos potable water plan in 2012
  
• Central Bank: Economy fell 1.4% in 2010, but may emerge from recession
  
• Venezuela: The end of a 3 week-old hunger strike
  
• Stanford fraud victims in Venezuela want the United States to help
  
• Nikolas Kozloff // WikiLeaks drags Libya and Venezuela through the mud
  
• New dispute over ex-Venezuelan President's Carlos Andres Perez' assets
  
• Main suspect in Atlas Marine RD$1.5B tax fraud nabbed in Venezuela
  
• Professor: "Venezuelan government tried to use Interpol against foes"

• Gaddafi aborted Venezuela flight after UK spies discovered escape plans
  
• Izarra: UK Foreign Secretary Hague story on Gaddafi in Venezuela false
  
• INE report for January: food prices in Caracas up 9.52%
  
• Wikileaks Assange doesn't trust Venezuelan media … signs with Colombia
  
• Former AN deputy Montiel takes over Indepabis promising to fight speculation
  
• German eco-tourist escape accident in Roraima Tepuy … crew injured
  
• Chavez held responsible of state of uncertainty over Alcasa aluminum's future
  
• Milos Alcalay: Venezuela should freeze bilateral agreements with Libya
  
• UK Foreign Secretary says seen information Gaddafi is on way to VZLA

• UK Foreign Secretary William Hague says seen information that Gaddafi is on way to Venezuela
  
• Libyan unrest spreads to Tripoli amidst rumors Gaddafi has fled to Venezuela
  
• Amiel Ungar // Is Hugo Chavez the next Domino to Fall?
  
• Supreme Tribunal of Justice: A washing machine of corruption and impunity...
  
• Venezuela's PDVSA to face three other arbitrations on takeovers
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez fails to oil the nation's economy
  
• Venezuelan Socialists debate strategic guidelines in Communities
  
• Chavez currency market takeover spurs bank lines for US dollars
  
• Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall's 'new look' tackles taboos...
  
• Vice President convokes Federal Council of Government meeting on crime
  
• Vice President in Coro to mark start of 11-year Federal War in 1859
  
• Uruguayan construction co admits problems … housing plan on schedule
  
• FANB criticizes opposition for boycotting G-i-C speech in parliamentary act
  
• Progress reported on ALBA-PTA seed-processing plant in Yaracuy
  
• Chavez helps Globovision correspondent with funds for delicate operation
  
• ALBA-PTA rejects OAS' repeated interference in VZLA's internal affairs
  
• Andrew MacKillop // High food prices and political oblivion...
  
• Fred Cederholm // Many of my earlier predictions have yet to materialize...

• PDVSA Minister renders annual report 2010 in the National Assembly
  
• Housing Minister quizzed over house-building timetables and projects
  
• Cardinal supports students on hunger strike … MIJ Minister pays visit
  
• Twitter: Opposition's preferred choice of protest during parliamentary debate
  
• Environment Minister defends work on Caracas Rio Guatire ready in 2014
  
• Electrical Energy Minister highlights mass investment in thermal energy
  
• Hearing set in Venezuela ex-President Carlos Andres Perez' burial case
  
• VTB, Gazprombank to finance of Russia's arms exports to Venezuela
  
• UN estimates 40% of cocaine that reaches Europe passes through Venezuela
  
• Workers unhappy over exclusion from new board Sidetur Casima plant
  
• United States says Venezuela's influence is on the wane
  
• Rafael Ramirez: "If it were not for Chavez, we would have no PDVSA"
  
• Colombian ex-Minister Arias condemns reconciliation with Venezuela
  
• Obama requests funding for Venezuelan Opposition in 2012 US Budget
  
• Julio Escalona // Dialogue and Popular Power

• Payments to Colombian exporters dominate foreign ministers meeting...
  
• Maduro plays down student hunger strike to release "political prisoners"
  
• No solution in sight for striking Heinz workers … both sides entrenched
  
• PNB chief slams bus driver leader for sensational claims of 24/7 robberies
  
• No increase in gasoline prices … possible rationing and other measures
  
• British partner to Venezuelan-Cuban grandnational in cable venture
  
• More dissension at Alcasa aluminum as cooperatives take on unions
  
• Western mass media is inventing a whole panoply of lies about Venezuela
  
• Alfredo Bremont // Global Revolution and a solution...

• Crystallex files >US$3.8 billion ICSID arbitration claim over Las Cristinas...
  
• A fanatic with a gun or a bomb could help the CIA see old dreams come true
  
• Deal sealed setting up Russian-Venezuelan Evrofinance Mosnarbank
  
• Venezuela ends 10 years search for Mariscal Sucre gas project partners
  
• It's necessary to expand the media agenda and deal with different issues
  
• Electricity and petrochemical sectors owe US$1.6 billion to PDVSA
  
• Chavez must be the Devil! Wait a minute! Does that make sense?
  
• CVG-Minerven plans for Las Cristinas 4, 5, 6 and 7 and Brisas gold mines
  
• Rusoro workers and community councils pressure Mibam over BCV red tape
  
• G-i-C Rangel Silva: The Angostura address is relevant for Venezuela today
  
• Health Minister Sader: imported cholera cycle is over … 317 victims treated
  
• Venezuelan government mounts campaign to teach proper use of gasoline
  
• VenEconomy // President Hugo Chavez to impose gasoline rationing...
  
• The United States is examining if Venezuela has violated Iran sanctions
  
• International watchdog says press freedoms threatened in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela's oil reserves increase to 296.5 billion barrels; the world's largest

• Undeniably there are those who profess undying love for President Chavez
  
• Simon Bolivar gold mine 70% paralyzed … workers angry with BCV
  
• Opposition snubs commemorative parliamentary session in Ciudad Bolivar
  
• Statistics chief takes on Maria Corina Machado again over poverty numbers
  
• MUD: consensus on primaries to choose presidential candidate 2012
  
• Opposition deputies exposed during ministerial hearings … gaffes, mistakes
  
• National Guard (GBN) officers kidnapping racket … three children rescued!
  
• VenEconomy // Who can believe that Chavez will build 913 homes per day?
  
• Trade between Venezuela and Colombia not recovering despite agreement
  
• Karen Phillips // Is Chavez promoting free expression? Check the facts!
  
• Jayne Lyn Stahl // Barack Obama versus Hugo Chavez
  
• Opposition files motion to render the President's Enabling Law invalid
  
• Venezuela's opposition to boycott speech by General Henry Rangel Silva
  
• No let up from Gomez Sigala … now he slams AgroVenezuela Mission

• Fred Cederholm // "Reality is NOT based in truth, it's based in perception."
  
• Venezuelan after eight years of controls ... the economy is in a labyrinth
  
• Latin America gold mining is an important source of foreign investment...
  
• PDVSA and Iranians to build 12,000 apartments near Lake Maracaibo
  
• Chavez: Grand Housing Mission is a strategic plan to deal with deficit
  
• Venezuela and Guyana draw up new anti-narcotics cooperation agreement
  
• Leopoldo Lopez beats opposition in show of strength in La Vela de Coro
  
• Mibam Minister announces agreement at Venalum but faces criticism
  
• Chavez queries opposition bench's flurry of "dodgy" statistics and data
  
• Rocio San Miguel returns funds for NGO to Canadian Embassy in Caracas
  
• Energy Minister confirms 90% subsidy of $1,5 billion for cheap gasoline
  
• President Chavez funding American group that assists illegal migrants
  
• President Hugo Chavez: "I'll be re-elected in 2012..."
  
• Republican lawmaker Connie Mack proposes US embargo on Venezuela
  
• Venezuela loses $1.5 billion a year in gasoline subsidy
  
• Community media have changed the media landscape in Venezuela
  
• Walid Makled's 128 suitcases

• Israeli Counter-Terrorism in travel warning to citizens visiting Venezuela
  
• Las Cristinas announcement clears path for joint development with Brisas
  
• Spain's El Pais rages against Venezuelan Ambassador Isaias Rodriguez
  
• Ombudswoman tells human rights NGOs to register denunciations...
  
• Debate on social matters overshadowed by insults and fisticuffs in Parliament
  
• Maduro: Venezuelan government spends 60.6% of income on social investment
  
• Health Minister: unscrupulous construction cos left hospitals uncompleted
  
• Education Minister Hanson admits that "devilish" problems can be resolved
  
• University Education Min defends university autonomy; shows advances
  
• Communes Minister: Communal power more visible and relevant in 2010
  
• Who has right set of statistics in Parliament ... government or opposition?
  
• Venezuelan Interior & Justice Minister Al-Aissami hangs out with Hezbollah
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez to strike cocaine blow on the USA
  
• Venezuela lawmakers exchange punches in the National Assembly (AN)
  
• VenEconomy // Unbelievable Borrowing!
  
• VenEconomy // Far from slowing down, Venezuela's inflation skyrocketing
  
• VenEconomy // Airs of a renewed trade union effort
  
• Venezuelan trade unions and the Chavez government to hold talks
  
• Kyle Munzenrieder // Will Hugo Chavez meet the same fate as Mubarak?
  
• Workers end month-long strike at Coca-Cola Femsa de Venezuela SA plant
  
• Venezuela's Citizens' Control NGO gives back aid received from Canada

• El Callao Mayor accused of creating tension in gold mine with invasions
  
• Crystallex International (KRY) out of luck; may NOT seek arbitration recourse
  
• Coffee growers meet AN president for round table discussions
  
• Workers fight back at closure of Maracaibo's Environment Institute
  
• SIDOR and SUTISS union agree on tabs positions and production security
  
• President Rafael Caldera's widow Alicia Pietri dies at the age of 87
  
• Capriles Radonski emerges as presidential candidate … others chipping in
  
• PDVSA launches another $3 billion in bonds on Luxembourg stock exchange
  
• Vegetables rose 11.1% in January … inflation rate stood at 2.7%
  
• Newsweek's Mac Margolis // Is Chavez Going Down?

• Barclays Capital: Venezuela's PDVSA not to receive $20 billion in cash
  
• Venezuela's Foreign Minister denies that Chavez is giving oil away...
  
• Venezuela: Prices of agricultural products climb to 68% in 12 months
  
• Imprisoned Mayor Chancellor: We were right about CVG and Crystallex
  
• Crystallex has 90 days to hand Las Cristinas back to Venezuelan State
  
• Defense Minister defends presence of Cuban (and other) military advisers
  
• Venezuela prison population at all-time high with more than 44,500 inmates
  
• Venezuela had 48 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants last year (2010)
  
• Venezuelan Defense Minister advocates Cuban military presence
  
• Venezuelan prosecutors bring criminal charges against two retired generals
  
• Vice President Elias Jaua tells Parliament there's governance in Venezuela
  
• Jaua: Opposition fell into strange silence during real estate and banking crises
  
• MIJ Minister highlights police reforms; homicide rate embarrassingly high
  
• Foreign Minister defends agreements with PetroCaribe and ALBA-PTA
  
• MinCi Minister Izarra: El Universal refuses to reinstate 13 fired journalists
  
• Sarah Grainger // The films inspired by Venezuela's 1999 disaster
  
• Come on! Hypocrites! And why can't the Venezuelan government stop this?
  
• Anthony P. Maingot // What's Venezuela's "real" foreign policy?

• My father used to say "Latinos are lazy, disorganized and unreliable"
  
• Venezuelan Navy hydrological expedition team returns from Antarctic
  
• Police revolt in Caracas solved with change of commander and wage increase
  
• Venezuelan and Brazilian Foreign Ministers prepare presidential meeting
  
• PNB move squatters out of building in La Candelaria district in Caracas
  
• Caracas Reconstruction Minister: people should be ready to pay taxes
  
• Agropatria commits to AgroVenezuela small farmer development program
  
• Top ministers to render accounts and answer questions in Parliament

• Russian-Canadian Rusoro eyes Venezuela mine after Crystallex exit
  
• Crystallex shares plummet after Venezuela gold mine contract terminated
  
• Venezuela finally, officially denies Las Cristinas gold mine permit
  
• Venezuela's gold reserves rise 12%, reserves abroad fall 37%
  
• Venezuelan students and union members mount anti-Chavez march
  
• Health Ministry confirms 245 reported events of cholera in Venezuela
  
• Average household income has experienced a real drop of 8% in 2010
  
• Benedict Mander // Egyptian lessons for Venezuela?
  
• Opposition Fedeagro announce breakthrough with Agriculture Ministry
  
• Inspection teams to visit and qualify lands and soil of AgroVenezuela applicants
  
• FGR: Judge Afiuni did not follow procedure in Cedeno release
  
• 25 construction owners wanted for swindling first home buyers
  
• Chavez celebrates 4F in Maracaibo where the rebellion started 19 years ago
  
• Maduro calls for re-unification of working class as opposition union gather
  
• We can't have it both ways, can we? It is all magic ... or is it illusion?

• Venezuelan oil minister Ramirez sees $200 oil if the Suez canal closes
  
• Macroeconomic Stabilization Fund (FEM) transfers $832 million to Chavez
  
• Venezuela: Construction of 80,000 government housing units is halted
  
• Venezuela's Vice Minister "will not silence" President of Canary Islands
  
• Mendozas and well-heeled duck quarantine for cholera wedding spree
  
• Strict timetable for AN deputies to grill three ministers on annual report
  
• Court slaps another year on Yaracuy deputy-elect's corruption sentence
  
• Chavez sends in Carrizales to sort out serious problems in Apure State
  
• Alcasa president presents payments timetable to erase labor liabilities
  
• Former Mibam Minister criticizes double discourse of private sector

• Egypt and Venezuela: Dictators, it seems, are not in fashion today!
  
• President Hugo Chavez ready with high-risk home sites law decree
  
• Chavez: PDVAL has learned the lesson after the rotten food scandal
  
• St. Mateo sugar central under investigation for alleged malpractices
  
• Opposition Maracaibo Mayor finds sites for government house building drive
  
• Chavez has been lucky ... but will it allow him to win the 2012 elections?
  
• Venezuela earmarks $697 million for community council housing construction
  
• Venezuelan court grants house arrest for jailed judge Maria Afiuni
  
• President Hugo Chavez admits errors ahead of his 2012 presidential bid
  
• Venezuela: where pink dolphins frolic and piranha tastes great grilled

• Oscar Heck // Venezuela is a live bee hive… Chavez is a rock star!
  
• Oligarchy offered Essequibo to British for troops to quell peasant armies
  
• CICPC round up 2,000 wanted criminals in dawn raids across Venezuela
  
• Bicentenary Stock Exchange set to challenge private Caracas exchange
  
• Lawyers insist Judge Afiuni be allowed house arrest for health reasons
  
• The new: Patriotic Pole not based on parties but social movements
  
• Agropatria: ready to produce to show Socialism works … make or break

• US consulate in Caracas closed on Monday after receiving threats
  
• The contemporary Bolivarian Revolution and the Arab Revolution in Africa
  
• Chavez lobbied FARC legitimacy in Honduras: WikiLeaks cable
  
• Venezuela owes US$80 million to Colombian textile sector
  
• Wikileaks documents: Chavez gave Suriname's Bouterse financial support
  
• Venezuela sends expedition to the Antarctic under ALBA agreement
  
• Neighbors in la Pastora help senior citizen recover home from squatters
  
• Ombudswoman wants TSJ to rule on construction firms tagging on extras
  
• PSUV to introduce rent regulation bill in the National Assembly (AN)
  
• Planning Minister Giordani enthusiastic about new Bolivarian Stock Market
  
• How to invest in VZLA's newly-opened Bicentenary Public Stock Exchange
  
• 90,000 agricultural producers sign up for the AgroVenezuela Mission
  
• Struggle between Alcasa worker-president and unions is coming to a head
  
• VenEconomy: Venezuela's military arsenal up in flames