• Venezuela criticizes Sweden over FARC deportee
  
• Strategy Page // Sticking it to the Swedes
  
• Venezuela aluminum smelter CVG-Alcasa is in trouble
  
• Claims that judicial independence in Venezuela fades
  
• Venezuela oil basket gains $2.04 on week to $110.33 per barrel
  
• Venezuela to spend USD 4.02 billion to pay wage hike and debts
  
• Venezuelan prisoners hold 22 officials hostage to protest against TB outbreak
  
• Venezuela's unemployment rate remains stable at 8.6 percent in March
  
• Government approves USD 1.63 billion for Venezuelan universities

• Gaddafi sends delegation to Venezuela to seek political solution
  
• Venezuelan industry says it's the "worst possible moment" to join Mercosur
  
• Sweden seeks clarity on FARC suspect arrest
  
• Venezuela to boost minimum wage by 25 percent
  
• Gaddafi may seek asylum in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan nurses end hunger strike after wage increase
  
• One glitch seems to lead to others in this mess of a worldwide economy

• Venezuela calls for impartial body to address the Libya conflict
  
• Chavez vows to spend oil windfall revenues on social programs
  
• Venezuelan oil prices climbed in the middle of a week marked by volatility
  
• Venezuela proposes Colombia restricts agricultural imports
  
• Edgardo Lander: Path for Venezuela can not be Neoliberalism or Stalinism
  
• Wave of child deaths strikes indigenous community in Venezuela

• Benedict Mander // Venezuelan trade plans to backfire?
  
• Venezuela out of the Andean Community as of April 22
  
• Daniel Duquenal // Chavez to blame for electricity crisis in Venezuela
  
• Cardinal Urosa: "Jesus was not a socialist leader"
  
• Venezuela's January retail sales rise 5.2% from year earlier
  
• Venezuelans mark declaration of independence two centuries ago

• Venezuelan CVG-Bauxilum alumina sales down by 7pct in March
  
• Venezuelan trade unions deplore status of nationalized businesses
  
• Opposition politician demands probe of Venezuelan state bank
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez will reactivate peace proposal for Libya
  
• CAN hopes that Venezuela's withdrawal does not hit trade
  
• CANTV shares "dropped" 58% but Venezuela Stock Market up 8.47%
  
• Central Bank reports 9.9-percent hike in January sales
  
• Venezuelan government moves forward in bank with Russia
  
• Santos: I did not say that there are not guerrillas in Venezuela
  
• The IACHR has no particular fixation on Venezuela; Chavez not happy
  
• VHeadline Reader: I also cherish your independence and objectivity
  
• Fred Cederholm: Losses go beyond what we see on the news, or internet!

• Major drug kingpin could implicate Venezuelan officials, but not any more
  
• United States: Terrorist found 'not guilty', Venezuela demands extradition
  
• ARCA Racing -- Venezuela's Milka Duno finishes P19 in Talladega debut
  
• Venezuela: Rusoro Mining reports its 2010 Financial Results
  
• Human rights activists harassed in Venezuela: Rights watchdog
  
• Guayana staff deplores status of nationalized businesses
  
• Power deficit hits Venezuelan industrial sector
  
• Peruvian, Venezuelan foreign ministers meet to strengthen trade ties
  
• Bauxilum imports another 800,000t of bauxite - Venezuela
  
• Venezuela raises some food costs 48% amid inflation surge
  
• Nurses on strike in hospitals in 10 Venezuelan states
  
• Banco Industrial de Venezuela enters into Regulatory Agreement
  
• US Federal Reserve imposes penalty on Banco Industrial de Venezuela

• Air France jet makes emergency landing at Caracas' international airport
  
• President Hugo Chavez says no one can topple the Venezuelan revolution
  
• March CPI at 1.4% but official Inflation in Venezuela at 27.4%
  
• Venezuela opposition to pick challenger to incumbent President Chavez
  
• Colombian Interior Ministry approves extradition of Makled to Venezuela
  
• Venezuela steelmaker Sidor sees Q1 2011 output rise
  
• Minister: 2% of Venezuelan farmers own 82 percent of sowing area
  
• US Congress supports Venezuelan exiles in Miami
  
• Analysts: PDVSA may pay Exxon $3.7 billion
  
• Wow in Chuao: Venezuelan village claims best cacao in the world
  
• Gustavo Marquez Marin // Imperial Doctrines

• Colombia's Santos: There are no more FARC camps in Venezuela
  
• Six civilians and 15 military officers get arrest warrants for 11A
  
• The Arab Revolution will not be televised in Latin America
  
• Venezuela to deport suspected rebels
  
• Venezuela repaid less than 25% of its debt to Colombia: newspaper
  
• Fitch affirms Venezuela's credit ratings at B-plus
  
• Man pleads guilty in Venezuelan extortion case
  
• Chavez, Simon Bolivar and the Maria Lionza 'cult'
  
• IMF forecasts 1.8 percent economic growth for Venezuela in 2011
  
• "Even if oil prices rise, local currency will be in short supply"
  
• Fred Cederholm // It is bravado that matters… not the substance...

• Colombia supports Venezuela to get temporary extension of Andean CAN
  
• Mujica strongly lobbies for Venezuela's full incorporation to Mercosur
  
• Venezuela's most populated areas suffer another major blackout
  
• Santos and Chavez meet Lobo; agree to help Honduras return to the OAS
  
• Colombia and Venezuela sign 16 bilateral cooperation agreements
  
• No need for OPEC talks on oil prices: Venezuela oil minister
  
• Justice made in USA: Terrorist Posada Carriles Acquitted of All Charges
  
• Walid Makled's lawyer demands Chavez guarantee client's safety
  
• Franz J. T. Lee // Japan and the Globe: Okaerinasai - Welcome back, Life?

• Blackouts hit most of Venezuela, affecting oil output and the Caracas metro
  
• Venezuela has reduced its order of Chinese Y-8 transports from 12 to 8
  
• Venezuela polarized over Chavez' land policy
  
• Venezuela sees 3 to 4 pct economic growth in 1Q
  
• Steel production drops as CVG subsidiaries hit by power rationing
  
• IAPA questions legal reforms restricting press freedom in Venezuela
  
• Economist Pedro Palma: Venezuela should tackle inflation
  
• Jody McIntyre // Venezuela; not another Libya
  
• 'Santos should ask Chavez for more Venezuelan oil'
  
• More A/H1N1 flu cases reported in Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan bananas ripe for paper production
  
• Chavez says Venezuela GDP growth may double forecast
  
• Venezuelan congressmen head for Colombia to meet Makled
  
• Venezuela Central Bank sees need to cut borrowing costs
  
• Analysts fear inflationary pressures in Venezuela's withdrawal from CAN
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez to visit Brazil's Rouseff on May 10
  
• Franz J. T. Lee // Sayonara, Japan! Is the capitalist game now over?

• US Gen Douglas Fraser voices concern over increasing Iran-Venezuela ties
  
• Venezuela makes important step in building new hydroelectric plant
  
• Venezuela Minister pledges to investigate Makled corruption charges
  
• VenEconomy // Urgent pending tasks for Venezuelan Opposition
  
• Venezuelan accumulated inflation stands at 6 percent so far this year

• Venezuela seeking to shape business relations in South America
  
• Seven hurt in shooting at hot dog stand in Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // The Venezuelan President ... insensitive or cynical?
  
• Wives of political prisoners denounce Venezuelan judiciary
  
• Venezuela's US$10 million donation to Uruguay was agreed in 2005
  
• Venezuela to ship 12 million barrels of fuel to Argentina from May
  
• US media silent on outrageous media award to an enemy of the free press
  
• Opinion: Makled must be tried in the United States, not Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan government pays more for foreign coffee than domestic coffee
  
• Leopoldo Lopez v. Venezuela: A case not about Venezuela
  
• Hugo Chavez' inner circle has drug ties, Venezuelan drug kingpin claims
  
• Mark Twain's own words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic
  
• It is a freedom paid for so dearly over the course of our history

• Venezuela touts agreements signed last week on Chavez' tour
  
• Jailed 'kingpin' Walid Makled implicates Chavez government
  
• Health Minister: 6 dead; over 700 Infected with Swine Flu in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela: Gay Rights group reports discrimination to the United Nations
  
• William J. Dobson // What Does Chavez See in Gaddafi?
  
• VenEconomy // Housing at Risk
  
• "Venezuelan democracy has taken a step back with Hugo Chavez"
  
• Venezuela has a deficit with Mercosur for US$6 billion
  
• Telefonica seeks to repatriate $3 billion profits from Venezuela
  
• Venezuela says last September plane crash caused by mechanic failure

• Uruguay will support Venezuela's entry to Mercosur Trade Bloc
  
• Crystallex International Corporation reports 2010 Financial Results
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: The attack on Syria has begun
  
• Venezuela to buy electricity from Colombia as stopgap for shortage
  
• Venezuelan baseball dreams survive political tensions
  
• Rusoro to increase output, wants to mine giant Las Cristinas gold mine