• Former Information Minister Fernando Egana -- whither Chavez?
  
• Venezuela stunned by tragic death of State Governor and top PSUV figure
  
• President Chavez loses veteran and historic revolutionary to cancer
  
• MIJ Minister El Aissami slams opposition for "double discourse" on crime
  
• After two-year stand-off, Chavez to pay Holcim $650 million for assets
  
• Venezuela is stuck with Colombia and Colombia is stuck with Venezuela
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela SA leased an offshore platform from PetroSaudi
  
• James K. Glassman // Venezuela on the Brink

• Democracy as a problem: Sovereignty, integration and neoliberal globalization
  
• Venezuelan (Guarico) Governor Willian Lara found dead after crash
  
• VZLAn Jesus Majano released after arrest for message posted on Twitter
  
• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez admits he's not funding Opposition-led regions
  
• Dock fire halts shipping at Venezuela's 310,000 bpd Cardon refinery...
  
• VenEconomy // Sweeping change in the "culture" of financial institutions
  
• Chavez' capacity to make trouble is limited by his own failures at home
  
• Chavez' obsession with past turns creepy ... and he's not alone...
  
• Against this background the elections in VZLA acquire vast importance
  
• John Smartt // Decisively taking all the teeth out of Mr. Carson's article
  
• Dan Miller // Is the (red) tide turning in Venezuela?
  
• A view from The Economist: �US and Latin America, nobody's backyard'
  
• 'Cruel' end to Venezuelan family's legal immigration to the United States

• Oscar Heck // This is a true story … but should not be taken seriously...
  
• Strange disturbance reported at the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry (MRE)
  
• National Assembly approves additional credits to cover social problems
  
• Venezuela re-adjusts prices of paddy rice, maize and sunflower
  
• Defense Minister boosts role of militia in public security operations
  
• Colombian journalist ready to renounce political asylum status in Venezuela
  
• The Economist: Argentina and Venezuela provide cautionary tales
  
• Venezuela's economy has become a lasting casualty of the recession
  
• Venezuela castrated with no promising young people to build its future
  
• Venezuela's Land Grab: Taking land by force is no solution to inequality
  
• VZLA food prices drop in August ahead of crucial congressional election
  
• Venezuelan oil exports in August down by 8% year-on-year
  
• Venezuelan police arrest engineer for spreading message on Twitter
  
• South-eastern Venezuela states report 96% of malaria cases
  
• Venezuelan Central Bank expects to slow down annual inflation rate
  
• President Santos: Colombia-Venezuela committees are yielding results
  
• Venezuelan TV tycoon dismisses possibility of being extradited from USA
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) Bonaire oil terminal still shut due fire
  
• Venezuela ranked 122nd in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)
  
• Venezuela's CNE: Government officials can participate in the campaign
  
• German customs sniffer dogs sniff out deodorant drug-smuggler
  
• Eva Golinger // US Interference in the Venezuelan Elections

• EDITORIAL: The Venezuelan government's 'Best Kept Secret' ... but the whistles are already blowing...
  
• Venezuelan Portuguese ex-pat Francisco Alves ends hunger strike
  
• Venezuelan Foreign Minister appointed as ALBA Bank president
  
• Veteran economist doubts Venezuela will move out of recession this year
  
• Venezuela invests US$23 million dollars along the border with Colombia
  
• CVG-SIDOR aiming to produce 2 million tonnes of steel in 2010
  
• Rosneft holds talks with Venezuela on buying German refineries
  
• President Hugo Chavez: Foes sabotaging Venezuela's power grid
  
• Guyana's maritime delimitation law adversely affects Venezuela's claim
  
• Venezuela increases imports of Argentina's cheese and chicken
  
• Venezuelan ambassador wants to "turn the page" on tensions with Colombia
  
• Venezuelan power distribution grid works with 10-30% overload
  
• Venezuela to retain US$30 million from $133 million refinery deal
  
• Alan Woods // Defeat the counter-revolution and fight for Socialism!

• Venezuela's inflation jumps to 19.9% in the first eight months of 2010
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador: Colombia ties must be based on diplomacy
  
• Venezuelan oil exports fall 8.7% in August to 1.53 million barrels per day
  
• Daniel W. Drezner // Venezuela self-imposed Mad Men sanctions
  
• Odeen Ishmael: FARC is seeking a way out of the political quagmire
  
• VenEconomy // Giordani seems to think inflation of 30% is an achievement
  
• Venezuela President criticized for campaigning ahead of Assembly vote
  
• Community in rural Venezuela blocks road to demand electricity repairs
  
• Cuba fearful that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez might lose power
  
• Michael Bowman // Venezuelan Opposition parties aim to break cycle of failure
  
• NGOs urge the Venezuelan government to stop persecution
  
• Venezuelan beauty grabs Bulgaria's Miss Summer International 2010 title
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela currency rationing hits home...
  
• Venezuela's military university to promote "anti-imperialist struggle"
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela begins payment of dividends to the Treasury
  
• Venezuela inflation up slightly in August, annual inflation at 29.7%
  
• Expert: Poverty in Venezuela will remain unchanged with good living card

• Security tightened on electricity plants and sub-stations to prevent sabotage
  
• Vice President: only Socialism guarantees family and personal property
  
• SVG PM plea to stay execution of Iranian woman could spur Venezuela into action
  
• Police accused of murdering Italian yachtsman on Margarita Island
  
• Venezuelan military official asks not to include criminals in crime statistics
  
• Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero celebrates South America on EMI
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela spends 50% of revenues in investments in 2009
  
• Venezuela's trade turns to Arab countries and former Soviet republics
  
• Venezuelan authorities to investigate alleged sabotage of electricity
  
• VenEconomy // The crisis, far from being solved, is more serious than ever
  
• Jeffery R Webber & Susan Spronk // Voices from Venezuela

• EDITORIAL: Alice's looking glass is surely in need of urgent repair
  
• Venezuela is NOT taking advantage of gold prospects and world prices
  
• Chavez wants to see major changes in development of Communes
  
• Communes hold the key to Venezuela's Socialist economy in elections
  
• Minister Fleming promises to make Venezuela an international destination
  
• Electoral observer NGO dubs CNE strong on technical, weak on balance
  
• Izarra slams private media for blackout of PSUV campaign news
  
• Failure at EDC substation causes disruption, blackout across Caracas
  
• Andrew McKillop // Reconstructing climate change...
  
• Labor Day takes on a special significance for all of us in the USA...

• Dissenting military demand "credible explanation" for helicopters crash
  
• Venezuela to keep funds for cash bonus to Nicaraguan public servants
  
• More than 4,000 inmates at three Venezuelan jails on hunger strike
  
• Venezuela sends aviators to pilot the Bolivian President's airplane
  
• Members of Venezuela's Jewish community to meet with President Chavez
  
• Oil exports to China increasingly key for Venezuela
  
• Average price of VZLA crude rose to $66.77 from $65.17 September 3
  
• Drugs deal between Venezuela and Beirut was worth more than US$8 million
  
• VZLA's policing system influenced by Northern Ireland's Police Service
  
• VenEconomy // Standard procedure for Chavez to violate the Constitution

• President Chavez adds 150 megawatts of electricity supply for Zulia State
  
• CNE president Tibisay Lucena pulls up colleague for off-the-cuff comments
  
• VZLA Ambassador to Spain, Isaias Rodriguez, tells PP to stop messing
  
• AG investigates role of family and friends in Franklin Brito's hunger-strike
  
• President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela is not a sanctuary for terrorists
  
• VZLAn President Hugo Chavez mocks cancer rumors as wishful thinking
  
• Chinese CHEC to build a new container terminal at Puerto Cabello
  
• Roger Noriega // Testing Chavez
  
• Bad phone connection with VZLA suppliers caused scheme to unravel
  
• Election official accuses President Chavez of breaking campaign rules
  
• Chavez reaches a $600 million deal to buy majority-owned French stores
  
• Chavez admin's public policies pushing Venezuela towards a precipice
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez defends his record on crime in Venezuela

Venezuelan government defends its record in the Brito hunger-strike affair
Venezuelan Vice President chides opposition Governors for high crime rates
Leopoldo Lopez: Public insecurity in Venezuela could be solved in 20 months
Caracas D.C. to refurbish apartment blocks and doubles security in metro stations
Opposition economist Ochoa slams government "good living" debit card
AN deputy defends 3,000 house buyers swindled by construction cos
US-British meddling in St. Vincent & The Grenadines to oust ALBA
Julio Escalona // Peace, Sovereignty and Democracy
Big increase in Q2 gold output and fall in costs for Rusoro
Rusoro Mining Ltd. grants and re-prices incentive stock options
Electoral official calls for analysis of Chavez' role in election campaign
Chavez accuses the US of funding coup attempt in Venezuela
Colombia should compensate Venezuela for refugees: Labor leader
Venezuelan vice-president: government did not violate hunger striker's rights
Seizures in Venezuela focus on retailers and industries
Experts complain that 91% of murders go unpunished in Venezuela
Venezuelan government provides credit cards to buy food
Ex BCV director: The 'good living' card does not come straight to the point
USAID increases funding for Venezuelan opposition
National Police deploy 658 troops to ensure safety in 47 Caracas metro stations
Venezuela buying out land and cattle belonging to the UK Vestey family
VenEconomy // Venezuelans will end up living hand to mouth
Venezuela's public deficit at US$4.88 billion in five months
Chinese company to build terminal at Venezuela's largest cargo port
Eva Golinger // Chavez: Security a priority
US-Venezuela links teeter on the brink, dragging a prudent foreign policy with it

• Chavez announces 'good living' debit card for supermarket customers
  
• CNE sends voting material for LatAm Parliament to all VZLA embassies
  
• Colombians could enter joint venture in Venezuela's Orinoco Oil Belt
  
• VenEconomy // When this dark period of Venezuela's history is written...
  
• Gil Shefler // Jewish community in Venezuela shrinks by half
  
• Francisco Toro // Venezuelans desperate for change after September 26
  
• Venezuelan capital flight up to US$8.69 billion in the first half of 2010
  
• Hands Off Venezuela: National Assembly elections to be held on 9/26

• Guyana confirms rice exports to and jet-fuel imports from Venezuela
  
• After eight hunger strikes, Franklin Brito has passed away in Caracas
  
• President Chavez visits exemplary communal sugar-packaging factory
  
• Yoani Sanchez // Saving lives ... or saving Hugo Chavez?
  
• Italian tourist slain on sailboat in Venezuela ... police suspect robbery
  
• Carlos Alberto Montaner // Will Chavez steal parliamentary elections?
  
• Venezuela spending $4 million to improve water quality, prevent contamination
  
• Venezuela exhumes two sisters of independence hero Simon Bolivar
  
• Maria Conchita Alonso talks about "Love, Loss and What I Wore"
  
• Alexandra Zendrian // Banking from a Venezuelan perspective...
  
• Joseph Malone links US Rep. Jeffrey Perry's supporter to Hugo Chavez
  
• US has "permanent military bases" in Guantanamo/Falklands -- Castro
  
• VZLAn President Hugo Chavez gave weapons to the Colombian FARC...
  
• Venezuela's retail sales fall 12.4% in the first half of the year
  
• UK Royal Navy warship intercepts yacht carrying cocaine worth £4 million

• Why is Chavez throwing a hissy-fit over international media coverage?
  
• The amazing Joe Jaycock and his Venezuelan baseball street kids
  
• Odeen Ishmael // UNASUR rejects FARC's mediation request
  
• Fred Cederholm // where are the answers and the solutions coming forth?
  
• Rusoro Mining Ltd records a net loss of $151.4 million during Q2 2010
  
• Gang leader Fraiber Velazco escapes from high-security Tocuyito prison
  
• Is Facebook reflecting undemocratic, hateful grimace of global fascism?
  
• Chris Herz // There's only one direction in which US political life must move
  
• Venezuela opens electoral fairs to promote September 26 elections...
  
• Our Man in Caracas ... Good news: Chavez doesn't like him...
  
• President Hugo Chavez says the Venezuelan opposition is desperate
  
• Venezuela's Chavez criticizes the international press ahead of elections

• Ten Venezuelan National Guard anti-drugs soldiers killed in border crash
  
• Chavez opponent Alejandro Pena Esclusa charged with explosives
  
• VenEconomy // Caracas being garbed in characteristically communist gray
  
• Oliver L Campbell // Were PDVSA's external auditors leaned upon?
  
• Venezuela's general mining industries -- 11 new discussion forums

• Small explosive device outside Cuban doctor's Caracas residence
  
• CNE president Lucena hauls all political parties over coals for "excesses"
  
• Chavez: If counter-revolution wins power, medicine will be privatized
  
• Mexico and Venezuela exchange views on climate change
  
• Venezuelan trade exchange with Iran reached $78 million in 2009
  
• Slain INTI general inspector Willian Prado awarded posthumous medal
  
• Venezuela seizes four tonnes of cocaine outward bound for Mexico
  
• Michael Bowman // VZLA youth dream of baseball careers in US leagues
  
• VZLAn President Chavez mocks rumors that he's suffering from cancer
  
• VenEconomy // More than the Unitary proposal for 165 candidates to the AN
  
• The Washington Times // Bogota unlikely to redo US base pact...
  
• Venezuela has two years to reform its police forces as homicides soar
  
• Venezuela's CVG-Venalum aluminum smelter operating at 30% capacity
  
• Extra-territorial application of RICO does not apply to Venezuela corruption...
  
• Mexico and Venezuela Foreign Ministers meet on UN Climate Change
  
• Venezuelan pro-Chavez politicians claim charities are US government fronts
  
• Power outages and falling demand hit 77% of companies in Venezuela
  
• Interview with Pedro Nikken, ex IACHR president on Venezuela
  
• Russia's Rosneft in "advanced negotiations" 50% of Ruhr Oel from PDVSA
  
• Opposition candidates say there are unhappy chavistas on the streets
  
• Guyana and Venezuela finalize second rice contract valued at $38 million
  
• Colombia Defense and Security Report Q4 2010
  
• Exxon/PDVSA Chalmette refinery to shut 3 units saving $8 million a month

• Former Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Milos Alcalay
  
• Political campaigns launched ... Chavez' foes head for electoral gains
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' popularity falls according to latest polls
  
• Financial Times: After brokerages, are VZLA�s banks the next target?
  
• Organization of American States drops Colombia FARC allegations
  
• Venezuela: UN agency provides training to help combat sexual violence
  
• Honduran Attorney General delves into Venezuelan donation to Zelaya

• To be or not to be? Is there really any question about the appointment of US Ambassador Larry Palmer?
  
• Venezuela vote race starts ... test of Chavez support ahead of 2012
  
• PSUV's Blanca Eekout: Pluralism and diversity only possible in socialism
  
• Rusoro and VenRus in rapid response to Guayana gold mining tragedy
  
• Colombia border area expects $4.6 million in deals with new markets
  
• Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) permits sales of FARC rum...
  
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia seeking rebirth in Venezuela?
  
• Iranian Industries & Mines Minister Mehrabian begins tour of Venezuela
  
• VZLAn Ambassador says flag-burning suspect sent home from Trinidad
  
• Six young persons die in cave-in at abandoned Crystallex gold mine
  
• Rusoro gold-miner lends helping hand to repair damaged highway
  
• Venezuela and China agree to long-term grand volume financing
  
• Ousted Zelaya calls on ALBA to question Honduras about funds

• In a penetrating essay, Venezuela's Adjunct Ambassador at the United Nations, Julio Escalona, explains why US military bases in Colombia are unconstitutional
  
• Venezuela uses Chinese funds to revive heavy industries in Guayana
  
• Another Chinese conquest ... or ... a Hugo Chavez "sellout" to Beijing
  
• Venezuela starts paying out $786 million owed Colombian exporters
  
• National Institute of Statistics: July unemployment rate rises to $8.7%
  
• Agriculture Minister concerned about health of frequent hunger striker
  
• Foreign Minister Maduro heads round table talks in border Tachira State
  
• German man arrested in VZLA facing trial in 23-year-old slaying of teenager
  
• Venezuelan quizzed on embassy 'attack' in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
  
• Iranian President Ahmadinejad: 'Iran, Latin America ties a priority'
  
• Venezuela with one of the world's highest murder rates -- official data
  
• Venezuela prioritizes $70 million debt payments to Colombian airlines
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez' socialist populism perpetuates inequality
  
• VenEconomy // Yet another piece of logic that stretches plausibility...
  
• Venezuelan Ambassador to US writes open letter to New York Times
  
• 800,000, mostly young people, have left Venezuela in the last 10 years
  
• Colombia to establish filters on Venezuelan debt's payments
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // 2010 World NUT Daily Exclusive
  
• Fred Cederholm // The War is over, Saddam is gone, and we won!
  
• VenEconomy // Total impunity, is draining the country of its life blood

• Venezuela struggling with a decade-long surge in homicides...
  
• Two shot dead at Fort Tiuna in gunfight that wounded six other soldiers
  
• Crime beginning to hurt President Chavez among his constituency...
  
• United States judge mulls RICO case against Venezuelan officials
  
• WorldNetDaily // China channeling money through Chavez to drug cartels
  
• National Statistics Institute: Nearly 20,000 murders in Venezuela last year
  
• Venezuelan oil industry is going through a cycle of sinking output
  
• Central Bank president: Venezuela will move out of recession this year
  
• Heckling at voting centers in Caracas during trial electoral run-thru
  
• Presidential 'Alo Presidente' radio/TV shows suspended until October 3
  
• Chavez 'robolution' spent $155 million on housing and got nothing in return
  
• Colombia says Venezuela agrees to fight cross-border crimes

• President Hugo Chavez announces new US$2 billion bonds issue...
  
• Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV): Economy declined 1.9% in Q2
  
• President Chavez defends middle class families in Mezerhane debacle
  
• Vice President Jaua: Communes are the new subject of decentralization
  
• United Nations, OAS reject ruling which censors Venezuelan newspapers
  
• VZLA judge says newspapers may now print photographs of violence
  
• Colombia captures top suspected Venezuelan trafficker, Walid Makled
  
• VenEconomy // VZLAns already accustomed to their rights being violated
  
• Four arrested in Venezuela accused of robbing poor kids on an outing...
  
• Colombian and Venezuelan foreign ministers will meet today in Caracas
  
• NGO accuses Colombian ex-President Alvaro Uribe of treason
  
• Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) to issue $2 billion in public debt bonds
  
• 40 Iranian industrial companies to attend exhibit in Venezuela
  
• Michael Bowman // Venezuelan shoppers confront rationing, shortages
  
• Venezuelan economy contracts more slowly in 2nd quarter 2010

• Council of Police director: leave crime out of the electoral battle
  
• Government gets more additional credits to pay public sector salaries
  
• Peasant and PSUV leader Richard Jesus Gonzalez murdered in Zulia State
  
• More than 1,000 tonnes of powdered milk unloaded at Puerto Cabello
  
• Vestey Group sells farms to Venezuelan government using 'Chaz Method'
  
• Supreme Tribunal rules Globovision's Zuloaga may be extradited from USA
  
• Top level Venezuelan trade delegation in China to review cooperation
  
• Pro-government editor: A month ban on violent photos is meaningless
  
• VZLA National Electoral Council: 2,568 electoral observers accredited
  
• Ambassador to Tehran: Venezuela won't stop shipping gasoline to Iran
  
• VenEconomy // Crude reality at Bello Monte morgue in Caracas
  
• Venezuelan Press denounces court ban on 'violent images'
  
• No injuries or significant damage reported in VZLA refinery explosion
  
• Marianna Parraga and Daniel Wallis // Venezuela's PDVSA at crossroads

• Las Cristinas gold is the least of President Hugo Chavez' present woes...

• President Hugo Chavez says rampant crime is everyone's responsibility
  
• Capital markets law in force with national securities superintendency
  
• Venezuela welcomes Colombian Court's ruling on US military bases
  
• 2,000 Caribbean and South American post-graduates in Venezuela
  
• Chavez signs law barring Venezuela brokers from forex, public debt trading
  
• Some buyers may have had access to inside information on award ceilings
  
• Colombian Court says US military base deal is unconstitutional...
  
• VZLA newspaper owner/editor defends photo that spurred investigation
  
• USA reiterates that Palmer is the ambassador-designate to Venezuela
  
• President Chavez advises the United States to choose another ambassador
  
• Analysts: VZLA's Chavez faces political test in September 26 elections
  
• VZLA President Chavez: United States presence in Colombia still a threat
  
• Julio Escalona // union of South American Nations (Unasur) and the FARC
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // US Congressman Eliot Engel really has chutzpah
  
• The Economist // Will Venezuela and Colombia honor their commitments?
  
• Venezuela's Chavez isn't exactly known for being friendly to free media
  
• What would happen if Chavez cut off the US from Venezuelan oil?
  
• Regional poll shows that Latin Americans trust their media and the military
  
• Venezuela village holds cure for hereditary Huntington's disease (HD)

Explosion rocks Venezuela's 187,000 barrel per day (bpd) Puerto La Cruz refinery

• Chavez "seems to be running Venezuela more and more like a dictatorship"
  
• Rachel Jones // Venezuelans seek pleasure, privacy in love hotels
  
• More developments in Venezuela's front page dead bodies photo scandal
  
• Political work of Ambassador Simancas in Suriname sets example
  
• President Hugo Chavez attacks opposition media anti-crime offensive
  
• Venezuela signs historic gas exploration pact with Trinidad & Tobago...
  
• Chavez appeals to undecided to review government's social advances
  
• Colombian Congressman proposes two-nation municipalities with VZLA
  
• Belarus to get almost 550,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil via Lithuania
  
• Ray Walser // Jean-Bertrand Aristide would put Haiti in Chavez' camp
  
• Ahmadinejad admires Venezuela condemnation of anti-Iran resolution
  
• VZLA Communist Party: "Carlos the Jackal" should return to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // 13,975 homicides in 2009 ... the strategy backfired
  
• Airplane stolen from a hangar at Caracas' Maiquetia international airport
  
• Michael Bowman // Venezuelans have little consensus on 21st C. Socialism
  
• Nicaragua & ALBANISA: The Privatization of Venezuelan Aid

• Wealthy US Republican candidate dumps Petroleos de Venezuela bond
  
• The Economist // CARACAS: Shooting the messenger...
  
• Venezuela court jails Ukrainian sailors to nine years for drug smuggling
  
• Venezuela says 2022 $3 billion bond demand at triple offer amount
  
• MAT Minister: imports cover deficits, not replace domestic production
  
• Miss Universe 2009, VZLA's Stefania Fernandez says replacement clear
  
• Venezuelans' deteriorated purchasing power strikes the whole labor scale
  
• Venezuelan goods in Colombian market has been significantly downsized
  
• Fred Cederholm // "Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly...
  
• Education Minister: 5,000 displaced Colombian children in VZLA schools
  
• Environmentalist slams MIJ and Indigenous Affairs Minister in Yukpa case
  
• Chavez announces Caracas' readiness to provide Tehran with gasoline
  
• Venezuelan General Muller Rojas did not suffer fools lightly -- RIP
  
• VZLA government media found wanting in reporting Muller Rojas' death
  
• VZLA's Bolivarian National Police dismantles thirteen Metro station gangs
  
• Venezuela: Importers can access SITME without enrolling in CADIVI
  
• SIDOR output nearly doubles after restrictions on energy usage lifted
  
• Armando Benedetti says the Bogota bombing was 'the work of far right'
  
• Opposition group slams Venezuela for opening probe against newspaper
  
• Odeen Ishmael's THE MAGIC POT: Nansi Stories From The Caribbean
  
• Franz J. T. Lee: Weather weapon now used in 'Oil World Wars' is HAARP

• Shooting of Hong Kong player hits women baseball World Cup in Caracas
  
• VZLA moves the Women's World Cup baseball tournament after shooting
  
• Shocking photo of bodies stacked in Caracas Morgue sparks controversy
  
• Venezuelan prosecutors probe opposition El Nacional over morgue photo
  
• PDVSA received financial assistance from government agencies in 2009
  
• Oliver L Campbell // PDVSA's provision for litigation and claims
  
• CIA knew about terrorist plans against Cuban and Venezuelan Brigades
  
• Judge jailed in Venezuela hopes a successful election sets her free
  
• VenEconomy // Spurious laws cover practically all vital areas of Venezuela
  
• Terrorism ties exposed ... Venezuelan President Chavez remains defiant!
  
• Ex-General Antonio Rivero ordered to stay in Venezuela amid inquiry
  
• Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela to sign energy cooperation agreement
  
• There'll be no peace for Chavez until USA gets its hands on VZLA's oilfields

• Crystallex International admits it's got nowhere on Las Cristinas permit...
  
• Scott Sullivan // Bolivia's Evo Morales will sink Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
  
• Chris Herz // Venezuelan ex-oligarchs do not choose to live in Colombia...
  
• Central Bank (BCV) to Chavez' government US$19.2 million in profits
  
• Paraskevidekatriaphobia ... You should have stayed home today!
  
• Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) deputy Luis Tascon dies of cancer
  
• Venezuela invites Suriname President to discuss development projects
  
• Chavez to complete Bolivarian auditorium where Simon Bolivar died
  
• Vice President Jaua installs 12 megawatt generator on Margarita Island
  
• Venezuelan government postpones talks on Sidor B shares until 2011
  
• MIJ Minister: Prisoners' cases will be heard during the judiciary vacation
  
• How Venezuela's Hugo Chavez tries to hide the truth about his government
  
• VenEconomy // Eliminating the adversary
  
• Car bomb attack in Colombia disrupts President Santos' peace plans
  
• Venezuelan muralists, cartoonist, paint different pictures of President Chavez
  
• New gold export rules may help Rusoro quadruple output by 2013
  
• Colombia-Venezuela: South America's most preeminent couple
  
• "Show of strength by guerrillas or CIA-MOSSAD" was a loaded question...

• Rusoro Mining secures breakthrough gold trading resolution in Venezuela
  
• Bogota car bomb explosion: Show of strength by guerrillas or CIA-Mossad?
  
• Diego Arria seeking cooperation with Uribe to bring Chavez to the ICC
  
• Colombia and Venezuela: Personal conviction or diplomatic suicide?
  
• Colombia's Holguin: Verification of FARC presence in Venezuela dropped
  
• Bankers welcome latest Venezuela bond issue as helping imports-exports
  
• Venezuela to ban bankers from involvement in media financial activities
  
• Unloading of grain-cargo ships in Puerto Cabello facing long delays
  
• Andres Cisneros // Is Chavez abandoning the FARC?
  
• Absence of President Hugo Chavez said to be a blessing for Suriname
  
• VenEconomy // How long will the honeymoon with Colombia last?
  
• Moscow welcomes the restoration of ties between Venezuela and Colombia
  
• Colombia's Constitutional Court postpones decision on US military pact...
  
• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez cozies up to tyrants and narco-terrorists
  
• Chavez admits Colombia may sign military agreements ... even with USA
  
• LGBT NGOs launched to push for civil code gay marriage in Venezuela
  
• Georgie Anne Geyer // Venezuela's Hugo Chavez moves toward 'goofy left'
  
• Colombian Foreign Minister to meet Venezuelan counterpart next week
  
• Venezuela will let gold miners export half their production ... up from 30%
  
• Venezuelan government seeks to bar banks from owning media firms
  
• Colombian exporters may not be so keen to return to Venezuelan markets
  
• Fedecamaras urges resumption in the short term imports from Colombia

• Colombian-Venezuela Chamber of Commerce sets down conditions
  
• General Rivero charged with offenses against FANB security
  
• Colombian Congress kicks off reconciliation with visit to Caracas
  
• Venezuelan police murder squad members get sentenced to sixteen years
  
• Finance Minister: Yes, Mezerhane's Banco Federal will be liquidated
  
• What does Colombia-Venezuela reconciliation mean?
  
• Venezuela and Colombia agree diplomatic roadmap
  
• Strategy Page // Colombia: New Boss, same as the Old Boss
  
• Asdrubal Aguiar: "Nothing or nobody can reverse Uribe's claims"
  
• F. William Engdahl // Something stinks about Wikileaks...
  
• Nicaraguan President Ortega finds huge patron in Venezuela's Chavez
  
• Oliver Campbell // LBC harshly criticises PDVSA's results
  
• Vilnius may reduce or even cut off PDVSA oil from the Klaipeda oil terminal
  
• Costa Rica urges patience in Venezuela-Colombia dispute
  
• Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Mugabe to have platform at UN General Assembly
  
• U$3 billion bonds to reduce pressure on CADIVI and the Central Bank
  
• 55-year-old Venezuelan housekeeper sues US family citing "forced labor"
  
• Colombia's Santos says door to talks with FARC guerrillas is "not locked"
  
• Venezuelan prosecutors charge General with crimes of "insulting" the Army
  
• Venezuela: Fifteen police officers sentenced for unionists' deaths
  
• LatAm declares mining key for economic and social development
  
• Fitch rates Venezuela's Foreign Currency Bond Issuance 'B+'
  
• Swiss airport operator Flughafen Zurich AG seeks Venezuela arbitration
  
• Tourism to Margarita Island hit by frequent electricity blackouts

• Grim warning for President Hugo Chavez to think twice about Colombia's new President Juan Manuel Santos ... AND his dubious cronies...
  
• Mr Chavez ... When you speak with Mr Santos, you speak to Washington
  
• Prof. James Petras // US policy of armed confrontation and intervention
  
• Colombian Vice President Garzon stable after undergoing heart surgery
  
• Fidel Castro: Colombia unwilling and unable to attack Venezuela
  
• Bad cop Uribe playing around with International Criminal Court
  
• Fugitive banker Mezerhane's building to house socialist supermarket
  
• US-based Chinese steel manufacturer to open Venezuela office
  
• US Pride International employee accused of bribing official at PDVSA
  
• Mike Whitney // Hurrah For Hugo Chavez...
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez visits Colombia amid diplomatic spat
  
• Chavez seems willing to ease up on his vitriolic approach toward Colombia
  
• United States says it is standing by its choice of ambassador to Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // CNE creating difficulties for international observers...
  
• Venezuela-Colombia summit to include the issues of rebels and trade
  
• President Chavez: Venezuela will deploy several "non-atomic" submarines
  
• Venezuela ready to recover Caribbean Los Roques paradise archipelago
  
• Leeward islands drops territorial claims to Bird Island on joining Petrocaribe

• Benedict Mander // Is Venezuela's debt worth the risk?
  
• Colombia's new Vice-President undergoes emergency heart surgery
  
• USA says Venezuela has not officially reported on disapproval of Palmer
  
• Washington expects Caracas to endorse Palmer as ambassador
  
• Who cares how many 'camel drivers' are being massacred in Iraq...?
  
• Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tweets: "Chavez is a coward"
  
• Venezuelan newspaper group attacked for the second time in two months
  
• Details of US$3 billion bond sale to be offered by Venezuela today
  
• Will Chavez and Santos be able to mend Venezuelan-Colombian ties?
  
• Chavez accepts offer to hold talks to end diplomatic rift with Colombia
  
• Colombia's new reformist President seeks to avoid war with Venezuela
  
• Human Events // Hugo Chavez is destroying Venezuela's economy
  
• Divide and conquer? Washington tries to pit Colombia against Venezuela

• President Hugo Chavez rejects US ambassador-designate to Venezuela
  
• VZLA President Hugo Chavez to meet Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos
  
• President Hugo Chavez urges Colombia's rebels to release their hostages
  
• President Chavez says Venezuela is about to emerge from recession

• Hugo Chavez wants talks with Santos to heal Venezuela-Colombia ties
  
• Colombia's new President calls on Venezuela, Ecuador to improve ties
  
• Colombia and Venezuela seek new start with Juan Manuel Santos
  
• JFK terror plot: Convicted terrorists linked to Iran and Venezuela
  
• Timothy V. Gatto // Are we (USA) going to invade Venezuela? Why?
  
• The Colombian government has a tenuous hold on rebel FARC haven
  
• The Quiet Revolution: Venezuelans experiment with participatory democracy
  
• Venezuela brings 'message of love and solidarity' to Santos inauguration...
  
• Pejman Yousefzadeh // What Chavez hath wrought
  
• Complaint filed against Hugo Chavez at the International Criminal Court
  
• More cocaine via VZLA and Cuba ... source of dollars eagerly sought after
  
• Carlos Blanco: "PDVAL is the clear expression of the government tragedy"
  
• Venezuela says in no hurry to issue $3 billion debt bond
  
• Venezuela, Brazil sign agreements in energy, agriculture, livestock, finance
  
• Venezuela to ease some restrictions to allow access to the currency market

• Why all this negative criticism of Venezuela's programs from the VOA?
  
• Pedro M. Burelli // United States-Venezuela relations on the brink...
  
• Venezuela's Chavez ready to restore diplomatic relations with Colombia
  
• Chavez phones Medvedev with offer to help fight wildfires in Russia
  
• Trade between ALBA countries in 2010 above $400 million as sucre grows
  
• President Chavez sides with Colombian General and slams Larry Palmer
  
• Venezuelan Finance Minister: Inflation, CPI and scarcity drop is positive
  
• TeleSur's Andres Izarra evokes the ghost of Shapiro in Larry Palmer
  
• NYT & VZLA Academy of History dispute reasons for Bolivar's exhumation
  
• Venezuela shipping up to 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day to China
  
• Venezuela's President Chavez may bar nominee US envoy for 'meddling'
  
• VenEconomy // They say it's a Stock Exchange ... but it isn't!
  
• Ship carrying 3.5 tonnes of cocaine intercepted in the Caribbean
  
• Stormy weather causes widespread power blackouts in Venezuelan states
  
• Argentina's Nestor Kirchner in Caracas to meet with President Chavez
  
• VOA: Venezuela's oil wealth powers social programs ... drives divisions
  
• Mismanagement: the biggest rock on which Chavez' revolution has floundered
  
• United States: Venezuela fails to cooperate with counter-terrorism efforts
  
• Benedict Mander // War of words embroils US nominee for Caracas

• Millions of Colombians in Venezuela worried over conflict warnings
  
• Venezuela surprised by Caricom's Carrington resignation announcement
  
• Zulia ranchers and farm owners worried about INTI reform offensive
  
• VZLA Defense Minister: Larry Palmer has no morality to belittle FANB
  
• Venezuela's MIJ sends emergency aid to Sucre town hit by rains and floods
  
• Former Argentinean Ombudsman questions kick-backs in trade with VZLA
  
• Venezuela could refuse to accept new US Ambassador's credentials
  
• Keith W. Cooper // United States needs policy on Venezuela
  
• Largest oil producer, Venezuela pares China debt with $20 billion oil accord
  
• Colombia and Venezuela's stand-off delays South American progress
  
• VenEconomy // PDVSA ... No use trying to hide the obvious
  
• Broken Promises: US interference in Venezuela keeps growing
  
• Welcome to 21st century censorship; Chavez shows us how it's done...
  
• United States activists call for USAmerican troops to leave Colombia
  
• So US SouthCom's General Fraser accepts Colombia's evidence as true?
  
• Clarinha Glock // "The World Needs a New Social Contract"
  
• Venezuelans criticize US Ambassador-designate Larry Palmer
  
• Rusoro Mining investors see a dry pan in waiting for news from Venezuela

• United Socialist Party of Venezuela rejects statements by US Ambassador
  
• Venezuelan authorities arrest 24 crew for cocaine aboard Chinese ship
  
• Colombian FARC guerrillas operate freely in Venezuela: new US envoy
  
• Larry Palmer reports on low morale among Venezuelan militaries
  
• Grand Pacaraima Gold Corp. will exchange four gold mines in Venezuela
  
• Palmer gets OK as ambassador for take on "demoralized" VZLA FANB
  
• Mercosur calls on Unasur for emergency meeting on Colombian-VZLA conflict
  
• Mercosur summit breaks through on common customs code
  
• Telecommunications agency under control of Venezuela's vice-presidency
  
• Julio Escalona // Uribe, NATO and the IMF
  
• PDVSA says BP's Venezuela assets are not yet officially for sale
  
• Setty // Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) earnings ... any surprises?
  
• Editorial // Venezuela-Colombia-United States relations
  
• VENEZUELA: What Chavez wants with the United States of America
  
• Venezuela Stock Market Index now up 16.35% ... but down 41.83%
  
• Mercosur meeting in San Juan wraps up a successful summit
  
• VenEconomy // Chavez taking steps to put communism firmly in place
  
• Ternium quarterly profit falls 67% on 2009 Venezuelan SIDOR payment
  
• Venezuela hopes the Colombia crisis will be over 'in a few days'...
  
• Book Review: "In Mortal hands -- a cautionary history of the nuclear age"

• European union ambassador criticizes Venezuelan decision to break ties
  
• Claims of guerrilla banking in Venezuela could bring UN scrutiny
  
• Firebombs hurled at Las Noticias de Cojedes newspaper office
  
• PDVSA's investment in 2010 is estimated at $16.4 billion
  
• PDVSA domestic provider liabilities amounted to $7.57 billion in 2009
  
• Iran, Venezuela agree to set up a joint oil shipping company
  
• PDVSA social contributions amount to $5.26 billion
  
• Hilary Kramer // Venezuela: Real trouble South of the Border
  
• Venezuela oil giant PDVSA sees profits slump 52.2% in 2009 to $4.498 billion
  
• Venezuelan Communist Party calls for regional demilitarization
  
• Latin Business Chronicle // PDVSA: More contradictions
  
• What more does it take to waken US workers from their state of self-denial?
  
• SIDOR liquid steel production drops 11% in July but sales improved
  
• Venezuela to supply China with 40 million tonnes of iron in seven years
  
• University fights for lands seized by the National Lands Institute (INTI)
  
• "Health problems" and Colombia keep Chavez away from Mercosur summit
  
• Paraguay and Venezuela to start series of business talks this month...
  
• PSUV defends much-maligned PDVAL from "opportunistic" opposition
  
• President Chavez: Possible public stock market and banking problems
  
• South American leaders gather in Argentina for Mercosur summit...
  
• Susan Kaufman Purcell // Leaning against Chavez?
  
• The first thing about Venezuela is that it doesn't make sense...
  
• Trade union chiefs say government meddling in unions is stirring violence
  
• Connie Mack vows to lead the fight to list Venezuela as terrorist state
  
• Venezuelan government implements controls to prevent food smuggling
  
• Nelson Belfort: "The revolution is foundering and it is not the media fault"

• Christopher Hitchens // What I learned about Hugo Chavez' mental health
  
• Chavez regime's drug trafficking is back in the international spotlight
  
• Food Minister checking out stocks and supplies in Tachira and Zulia States
  
• CVG and PDVSA agree to strategic alliance for supplies chain
  
• Screaming 666 ... the mark of the beast from the Book of Revelations?
  
• Alfredo Bremont // Never waste a good world war...
  
• Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) throws out Yukpa defense injunction
  
• PSUV in electoral campaign meetings with communal councils
  
• CNE and CANTV satisfied with first round of electoral dataflow tests
  
• Chavez insists: Key to regional peace is peace in Colombia...
  
• The challenges will be formidable for the next President of Guyana
  
• Jerry Brewer // Venezuela and a constant meddling in neighbors' affairs
  
• Caracas: There's too much corruption and the government does nothing
  
• Brian Williams // Who let Chavez off his leash?
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez says he aspires to stop Uribe's 'war-craze'