• VHeadine needs your help!
  
• MRE statement on Miami consulate raises more questions than answers
  
• Public Powers to present written annual reports to AN committees
  
• Rains cause more mudslides and evacuations during Carnaval vacation
  
• Big stash of cocaine being transshipped seized in southern Anzoategui
  
• JVR attacks VZLA opposition for falling for Uribe incursion to root out FARC
  
• Alfredo Bremont // El Caracazo 1989 and independent journalism
  
• Venezuela and Libya: it is not an April 11 coup, it is a February 27 Caracazo
  
• President Chavez heads for Brazil in March to meet with Dilma Rousseff
  
• A suggestion to President Hugo Chavez ... Reevaluate your alliances

• Venezuelan JV with private Chinese food company to boost food reserves
  
• MinCi's Izarra confirms only ANTV can broadcast parliamentary sessions
  
• Washington Post // In Venezuela, Chavez tries to boost Gaddafi
  
• Oscar Heck // They did what any intelligent Venezuelan would do…
  
• 30 employees at VZLA Miami consulate get the boot … consul resigns
  
• ALBA-PTA supports Chavez' Libya peace proposal; no to foreign intervention
  
• Ombudswoman Ramirez: Not first time that OAS Insulza has got it wrong
  
• President Hugo Chavez attends wake of his political firebrand, Lina Ron
  
• Norman Girvan confirmed as OAS Guyana-VZLA Good Officer representative
  
• Venezuelan basic industries call for urgent agreement on collective contracts
  
• Chicago's Joe Jaycox (74) nets USA honor for helping Venezuelan kids
  
• Bolivar devaluation, expropriations present risks as companies seek growth
  
• What happened to the hope-inspiring 'sweet bird of youth' of Ernst Bloch?
  
• Makes you want to cash out and buy the Brooklyn Bridge, doesn't it?

• Something that is sadly lacking in the majority of Venezuela's media of today
  
• Libya opposition turns down Chavez proposal, Arab League studying it
  
• US rebuffs Venezuela mediation efforts in Libya
  
• Joel D. Hirst // Should Hugo Chavez Mediate in Libya?
  
• Gaddafi's son rejects Chavez' mediation proposal
  
• VenRus strike: strike leaders could be arrested and jailed
  
• Guayana unions united but separate in defense of right to industrial action
  
• Guayana leader's release gives Chavez opening for deep-clean rectification
  
• US drugs report continues to blacklist Venezuela as tolerant to narco-kings
  
• ALBA-PTA executive secretary promotes contact with US social movements
  
• Venezuela accumulated inflation stands at 4.5% so far this year
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez amends law on banks

• Imagine if peace, good health and mental and emotional happiness existed?
  
• United National Assembly commemorates bicentenary of VZLAs first Congress
  
• Capriles Radonski and Alvarez Paz for primaries … Constitutional Pole set up
  
• TSJ president warns VZLA could reject IAHR Court ruling on political rights
  
• Clinton snubs Mack on Kennedy's TV ads for CITGO cheap oil for poor
  
• Hedge Fund LIVE's Lester Green: 10 craziest Hugo Chavez moments
  
• The Libyan government accepts Venezuelan plan for a negotiated solution
  
• Analyst View: How serious is the Chavez Libya peace plan?
  
• Libya: Venezuela proposes 'Friendly Countries' commission to hold talks
  
• Will Venezuela's President Chavez plan help Gaddafi to stay in power?
  
• Current United States bellicose 'Cognitive Infiltration' of the Enemy

• Inter-American Court judge labels political ban as shackles of the past
  
• Vincentian PM backs peace moves and dialogue to resolve Libyan conflict
  
• Venezuela at UN Human Rights Council: time to pursue peace not war in Libya
  
• Strike over: Heinz factory in Venezuela resumes operations
  
• Foreign Currency Bond Trading System fails to meet daily transaction target
  
• Leopoldo Lopez turns up at IAHR Court with 60-person entourage to fight ban
  
• Venalum downs tools again … anger mounts over Gonzalez prison sentence
  
• Tourism Minister: ready for Carnival … Spanish tourism agents come in April
  
• Julio Escalona // The war against the planet and humanity
  
• In Caracas, the 45-Story squatter highrise
  
• Venezuela cancels Smoking Ban
  
• Venezuela Central Bank predicts 2% growth in 2011
  
• Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero offers bonus encore
  
• Venezuela's unemployment rate hits 10.4% in January
  
• Venezuela urged to receive drug watchdog mission
  
• New mall in Caracas provides a safe haven for Jews

• Statement: Leopoldo Lopez leaves Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  
• VenEconomy // More lies from Venezuela's Government
  
• Ex-President Carlos Andres Perez' body ordered to temporary US tomb
  
• Venezuela losing tourism potential on Margarita … years behind Aruba
  
• Embassy holds closed-circuit meeting on advances in educational system
  
• Guayana trade union leader gets 7+ years prison for leading strike protest
  
• Chavez will not go with the international tide … civil war looming in Libya
  
• Opposition hits out at Chavez: Gaddafi must return replica of Bolivar's sword
  
• Ombudswoman compares IAHR reaction to 27F and Leopoldo Lopez ban
  
• BCV forecasts growth in 2011 from both public and private sectors
  
• Nil Nikandrov // Can the Libya fire set aflame Venezuela?
  
• President Hugo Chavez defends Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
  
• Venezuelan opposition leader to testify against Chavez at international court
  
• Venezuelan union boss gets 7-year prison sentence
  
• VenEconomy // Venezuela's Ricardo Zuloaga, a Champion of Freedom
  
• Milka Duno selected as ambassador for 'Es El Momento' Initiative
  
• Expert says that Venezuelan energy crisis is not over
  
• Venezuela assigns new exploration area to Gazprom

• 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?