• 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

• Uncle $ugar seems to love the dictators (if they are our "friends" that is)!
  
• Vice President rules out no hypotheses in CAVIM military arsenal fire
  
• More cholera cases raise concern among Venezuelan health authorities
  
• Canary Island President's private visit to Venezuela leaves bitter taste
  
• Banco Provincial is safe … Casa Propia intervened for bad practice
  
• MIJ denies any raid on AN deputy Gomez Sigala's residence in Caracas
  
• AgroVenezuela program gets underway with Bs.F 1 billion first-stage fund
  
• Ranchers and agricultural producers welcome debt pardon for farmers' losses
  
• Fire, explosions at CAVIM military depot; thousands evacuated, 1 killed
  
• Ban on foreign funding leaves activists in limbo about whether they're targets
  
• Mary Anastasia O'Grady // After the Flood in Venezuela
  
• BBVA to remain a private bank in Venezuela as executive apologizes...
  
• Internet Access: Formidable tool to curb and control mass mobilizations!
  
• London Metropolitan University hosts 1st ALBA-PTA conference
  
• China Clay mining and manufacturing to begin soon in south-east Guayana

• Jeannie DeAngelis // Investing in Venezuela's future
  
• Venezuela may review licenses granted to foreign oil companies
  
• Proposed Russian-CVAL banana JV in Zulia comes under fire
  
• Desperate PDVSA warns JVs to increase production ... or else
  
• Uruguay and Venezuela sign important agricultural exchange accord
  
• Higher University Minister welcomes level of dialogue with rectors
  
• Polar Co. trade unionists plan 5,000-worker march vs. expropriations
  
• Cases of cholera in Lara State … health bodies on alert
  
• CITGO launches US poor families' cheap heating oil program for sixth year
  
• Garbage washed ashore on Venezuelan beaches from Trinidad & Tobago
  
• Stabroek News Editorial // Pragmatic Mr Chavez
  
• VenEconomy // Whipping them into submission
  
• Benedict Mander // Venezuela's private currency war
  
• Chavez and Uruguay's Mujica meet, sign numerous bilateral agreements
  
• AN deputy rules out nationalization of banking sector in Venezuela
  
• Research firm Datos Poll: 70% of Venezuelans rejects expropriations
  
• Search party plans return to Venezuela in six months to seek missing pilot

• Colombia and Venezuela prepare joint anti-drugs cooperation accord
  
• TeleSur president Izarra appoints Colombian Villegas to run TV network
  
• Rodriguez Araque leaves Electrical Energy -- preparing for Unasur
  
• Camiven president paints doomsday in Venezuela's mining sector
  
• Leading private bank works with government to provide housing credits
  
• Cholera enters Venezuela from the Dominican Republic
  
• Empreven business sector to build 25,000 houses with government
  
• CVG-Alcasa worker-president slams trade unions for "silly stoppage"
  
• President Hugo Chavez assures middle class that he will fight for them
  
• Venezuelan takeover deals Owens-Illinois loss for 2010
  
• VenEconomy: An Achilles' heel for the ill-named "Bolivarian revolution"
  
• VenEconomy: Chavez has become expert at implementing half measures
  
• Cardinal exhorts Venezuelans to imitate strength of persecuted Christians
  
• Primero Justicia submits bill to compensate victims of violence in VZLA
  
• Venezuelan dissenters meet with members of the European Parliament
  
• Andrew McKillop // Islamic power returns to Tunisia
  
• Whether it is Caracas, Tehran, or Riyadh that stops the flow of oil to the west

• Venezuelan authorities implement plan for delayed and rerouted flights
  
• Chavez may expropriate Spanish-owned bank for refusing to grant loans
  
• Venezuelan protesters force President Hugo Chavez to cancel new law
  
• Venezuela urged to release Judge Afiuni held without trial for over a year
  
• "Vital areas for housing projects" to be seized by the Venezuelan army
  
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) report could harm Venezuela's foreign affairs
  
• Venezuelan central government deficit stood at 4.02% of GDP in 2010
  
• ALBA ally uncovers PM assassination plot in St. Vincent & Grenadines
  
• Damage limitation exercise by Bolivarian National Police director Fernandez
  
• VZLA Peasant Federation's Luis Hidalgo raises concern about census
  
• Defending Fung's managerial style ... "not to mention the lunacy of Chavez!"
  
• CICPC arrests two Metropolitan Police officers accused of VIP robbery
  
• National Assembly (AN) gets ready to grill ministers beginning February 8-9
  
• US embassy cables throw light on relations with private VZLA media
  
• Venezuela: To celebrate free expression, Chavez shuts down media
  
• Venezuelan President condones US$10.3 million debt to farmers
  
• Venezuela's Chavez insists he needs more time to complete his revolution
  
• President Hugo Chavez at ex-Smurfit farm with new deals for farmers
  
• Venezuelan steelmakers call for measures to resuscitate industry sector
  
• Power outage at Caracas airport ... temporary shutdown, flights rerouted
  
• Coca-Cola shortages grow as 11-day strike continues at Femsa bottlers
  
• President Hugo Chavez puts aside mockery of golf as a "bourgeois" sport
  
• Venezuela will extradite paramilitary hit man "El Mono Candelo"
  
• United States warns against Hugo Chavez' economic pressures on media
  
• Franz J. T. Lee // Venezuela: In Defense of the Internet while it still lasts

• President Hugo Chavez is blamed for blocking CAP's divorce papers
  
• Opposition's Andres Velasquez fiddles around with housing statistics
  
• Farmers gearing up for struggle to keep their properties in western VZLA
  
• Chavez using Venezuela's judiciary to persecute his political opponents...
  
• VenEconomy // Ratifying the Central Bank's destruction
  
• Venezuelan kin reject provisional home for Carlos Andres Perez' body
  
• Turkey set to cooperate with Venezuela on energy and housing project
  
• Jose Khan: China cooperation will boost Venezuela's industrial capacity
  
• Deadline looming for VZLA withdrawal from Andean Community of Nations

• 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

• President Hugo Chavez withdraws offer to limit Enabling law timetable
  
• Messrs. Diosdado Cabello and Julio Borges duel in parliamentary debate
  
• Isla de Margarita tourism president Nunez rails against Tourism Ministry
  
• Former Petrocasa spokesperson Carrera blames delays on bad management
  
• CVG-Venalum union leaders barricade entrance to plant with their cars
  
• Joel Hirst // President Chavez and the Organization of American States
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez won't give up decree powers in Venezuela
  
• Strategy Page // The Militias of Venezuela
  
• Anna Mahjar-Barducci // Opposition seeks support in Washington DC
  
• Turkey's energy minister Yildiz meets Venezuela's President in Caracas
  
• Case of jailed union leader draws condemnation from HR groups
  
• Oscar Heck // So what does all this have to do with lies and manipulations?

• Sunday 1/23 may be make or break for Venezuela ... eventually, America
  
• Lara Governor Henri Falcon: Opposition has President Chavez on the run
  
• Dutch take VZLA to court over Fama de America coffee compensation
  
• Venezuela's rural militia and reservists hold first annual planning meeting
  
• Tourism Minister: Spanish tourists encouraged to come to Venezuela
  
• Gang specialized in robbing tourists to Venezuela's Margarita Island
  
• Ex-CIA operative Luis Posada's English skills at issue in perjury trial
  
• Venezuelan government guarantees services for rain victims
  
• Venezuelan parliament calls for debate on Hugo Chavez' Annual Report
  
• VenEconomy // The Venezuela Banana Swap
  
• WikiLeaks: Lula was afraid of Venezuela's purchase of Russian aircrafts
  
• Venezuelan government plans to adopt measures in the agri-food sector
  
• Far away from Venezuela's Caribbean shores; Anette Göttrick is cool...

• Opposition compare Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez with Hugo Chavez
  
• SIDOR union leaders deeply divided over the latest work stoppage
  
• Households have been seriously hit by higher inflation in Latin America
  
• Venezuela hopes for first new output of 50,000 bpd from Orinoco this year
  
• Venezuelan government says it may regulate private firms' profits
  
• Basque ETA terrorists move to Venezuela, team up with Colombia's FARC
  
• President Chavez prepares shelter law to meet national emergencies
  
• Venezuela: Blackberry cellphones become most coveted and stolen item
  
• SIDOR to boost production of steel rods for national housing plan
  
• Fogade president David Alastre: financial system healthy and protected
  
• National Lands Institute arson -- "political act of sabotage and terrorism"
  
• Turkish energy minister wants to contribute to Venezuela's oil production
  
• Housing shortage continues in Venezuela; 300.000 people homeless
  
• US Drug Czar gives props to Venezuela plan to shoot down drug planes
  
• Venezuela arrests nine opposition activists on suspicion of INTI arson
  
• VenEconomy // One of the iron hands behind the silk gauntlet
  
• VenEconomy // More like an amnesiac's purely fictitious ramblings
  
• Venezuela's latest PDVSA $3.15 billion bond sale may be tip of iceberg
  
• President Chavez meets with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino
  
• Governor: Rebels commit crimes on Venezuela's border with Colombia

• Joe Weisenthal // Finally over for Venezuela and the Chavez regime?
  
• Internet Access War: Venezuela to connect Cuba bypassing USA
  
• Opposition deputy: Venezuela's Mercosur entry depends on return to CAN
  
• Parents struggling with Caracas nightmare; agonizing over dead son...
  
• What's behind (and beyond) Hugo Chavez' calls for Open Dialogue
  
• Dissenting governors urge President Chavez to uphold reconciliation
  
• Venezuelan government controls national stores to avoid speculation
  
• Venezuela fosters new integration mechanism in Latin American Parliament
  
• Opposition deputy calls Venezuelan Army's Plan Caura "treasonable"
  
• Venezuela: Six states hit by electricity blackout … Minister apologizes
  
• SIDOR not producing enough steel rods for the building industry
  
• PSUV deputies will continue to push for dialogue and debate
  
• Zulia rancher leader Carlos Benavides accused of torching INTI building
  
• New Bolivarian National Police force reduces domestic violence 66%

• Venezuela's President Chavez on "fast-track" to legislate against speculation
  
• Venezuelan government fails to meet goal of 120,000 housing units
  
• Naomi Mapstone // Latin America: soap operas or real life?
  
• Venezuela: Chuao Chocolatier named 2011 Good Food Award winner
  
• OilPrice.com: Venezuela's oil industry hurting despite huge reserves
  
• Venezuela's Briqven to invest US$9 million to operate at 100% capacity
  
• Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to pay 3-day visit to Venezuela
  
• Chavez insists that 2011 will see a significant spike in economic growth
  
• Stone-faced opposition throw olive branches back at President Chavez
  
• Dialogue offered but Venezuela's opposition keeps its distance
  
• Opposition MUD plumps for confrontation, ignoring dialogue and politics
  
• Soto Rojas defends Enabling Law; wants to mark Angostura Congress
  
• Venezuela: Would we wake up one morning and find the USA gone?
  
• Venezuela parties warily welcome Chavez olive branch
  
• Venezuela: Oil reserves surpasses Saudi Arabia's
  
• Iran, Venezuela and Libya see no harm in $100 oil
  
• Energy Minister Ramirez: Iran needs Venezuelan gasoline no more
  
• Venezuela's Chavez willing to let decree powers expire in May
  
• Venezuela nabs suspect accused of links to violent Mexican Cartel
  
• Venezuela is considering shooting down planes loaded with illegal drugs
  
• Williams F1 announces partnership with Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)
  
• Workers at the Venezuela's Coca-Cola plant in Valencia on strike
  
• Americans and British ... two peoples separated by the same language
  
• Greetings from snow-bound Vellinge in southern Sweden!

• Venezuela angry at Colombia television mocking "Little Hugo"
  
• Oliver L Campbell // The Bandagro bonds saga
  
• WikiLeak: Costa Rica suspected Venezuelan spying
  
• National Statistics Institute is sure that domestic economy will grow
  
• Venezuela Tax Agency closed 2,022 businesses In Zulia during 2010
  
• Vargas Llosa: What is happening in Venezuela is catastrophic
  
• Former Caracas Daily Journal reporter Peggy Voight dies
  
• Colombian exports to Venezuela slip 70% in 2010
  
• Venezuela says oil exports fell 6% in 2010 t0 2.32 million bpd
  
• Venezuela among the countries where democracy has reversed
  
• Venezuela crude, products exports rise 10% in December
  
• Dissenters ask for OAS action to normalize Venezuelan institutions
  
• Venezuela's relationship with the Basque separatist group ETA
  
• Peter Krupa // The slow death of a democracy
  
• Chavez urges PSUV to lead the people's struggles
  
• Romanian drug dealer Pascalau Ilie Tudor arrested in Venezuela
  
• Ecuador, Venezuela trade using new virtual currency

• Oscar Heck // No wonder Venezuela was such a mess!

• Spain is certain that ETA members seek refuge in Venezuela
  
• Ecuador rebuts Insulza's opinion on Chavez' enabling law
  
• Opposition deputy: Debate on enabling law at the OAS is a step forward
  
• Nicaragua's Ortega: OAS Secretary-General plots against Venezuela
  
• Venezuelan Parliament calls Chavez to present 2010 Report
  
• AN went overboard in an incredibly intense flurry of legislative activity
  
• VenEconomy // Breaking its own record of incompetence
  
• President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela has upped proven oil reserves
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez urged to renounce new powers
  
• Venezuela PDVSA developing offshore gas exploration technology

• Trade unions call for government emergency in Guayana's basic industries
  
• Roman Catholic leaders warn of a totalitarian system in Venezuela
  
• Venezuela state-run Stock Exchange will begin operations next week
  
• Opposition plans to ask for Venezuela's entry into Mercosur
  
• Geoffrey Da Silva to be new Guyana ambassador to Venezuela
  
• Ecuador exports 5,000 tonnes of crude African palm oil to Venezuela
  
• Venezuela state-run power company hurt by large unpaid accounts
  
• VZLA government demands US$3 billion from PDVSA to build houses
  
• AT&T Williams to run 2010 Cosworth FW32 racecar in Venezuela on Friday
  
• Citigroup's latest report does not rule out another Venezuelan devaluation
  
• Latin America Monitor: Venezuela ... January 2011 Risk Summary
  
• Venezuela provides free education to more than eight million students
  
• US Senator John McCain views Venezuela's Chavez as "undemocratic"
  
• Venezuela's Catholic bishops rule out calling for foreign intervention
  
• Luis Posada Carriles trial opens with little mention of 'terrorism'
  
• Venezuela oil production in 2010 fell below 2003 level
  
• Venezuela government accuses landowners of using "slave labor"
  
• Electricity Minister Ali Rodriguez to cut lights at late-paying state-run companies
  
• Venezuelan steelmaker announces investment plan to expand production
  
• President Hugo Chavez blasts OAS for 'interference' In Venezuela
  
• NEWSWEEK: Under duress at home, Chavez tones it down
  
• Venezuelan bishops oppose law giving more power to President Chavez

• The rhetoric of violence is what has made headlines around the world...
  
• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Monday, January 10, 2011
  
• Now locked in a totally dark room, we have no clue about what is to devour us
  
• Perez' family in Venezuela hopes to have remains returned soon
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls burning of government building terrorism
  
• Laurent Labrique // Poverty drops in Venezuela
  
• Chavez in trouble as Russia and China look elsewhere for energy security
  
• Posada Carriles will be tried only for lying, says Lawyer Jose Pertierra
  
• Venezuela: Epicenter of changes in Latin America
  
• Jeannie DeAngelis // Who will be USA's next ambassador to Venezuela?
  
• Can Venezuelans throw off their shackles? ...that's an open question!
  
• Chavez dismisses concern expressed by OAS Secretary-General Insulza
  
• National Land Institute regional headquarters burned, arson suspected
  
• Venezuela Defense and Security Report Q1 2011
  
• A 10-year-old girl has survived a fatal plane crash in western Venezuela
  
• Eva Golinger // Setting the record straight on Venezuela and Hugo Chavez

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Friday, January 7, 2011
  
• Ambassador Palmer is qualified but wrong guy at wrong place at wrong time!
  
• Stabroek News (Guyana) // Venezuela and 'the Cuban package'
  
• Relatives ask Miami judge to order body of ex-leader turned over for burial
  
• Venezuela's Pastor Maldonado in Williams Formula One home demo drive
  
• Chavez and supporters remain defiant as opponents fill parliament
  
• Second contraction year for Venezuela; 2% expansion forecasted in 2011
  
• Venezuelan authorities recapture convicted drug trafficker Larry Tovar Acuna
  
• Senior US diplomat says Chavez' decree powers are undemocratic
  
• Peter Kornbluh // Former CIA asset Luis Posada Carilles goes to trial
  
• Ambassadorial High Jinks: Will Barack Obama cave in on Venezuela?
  
• Venezuela to buy Azerbaijani oil to meet contractual obligations to Belarus
  
• Alfredo Bremont // Capitalism has reached its limits...

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Thursday, January 6, 2011
  
• Protests and insults as the new Venezuelan parliament begins 2011
  
• Patriotic Pole constructing a democratic, honorable, sovereign homeland...
  
• China clears way for $8.7 billion Venezuela refinery joint venture
  
• United States-Venezuela diplomatic dispute continues...
  
• United States rejects Venezuelan President's suggestion of new US envoy
  
• James Robbins // Venezuela: A divided country?
  
• Elizabeth Marcano's Ann Arbor take-iut offers a taste of Venezuela
  
• Paramedic wins bravery award for heroic efforts after Venezuelan plane crash
  
• Tim Padgett // Why Chavez happened: Carlos Andres Perez' legacy
  
• Venezuela: What should be debated in our schools, missions and universities?

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Wednesday, January 5, 2011
  
• Oscar Heck // 62% normal Venezuelans versus 38% money-drones...
  
• Get me Bill Clinton, says Hugo Chavez after vetoing US ambassador
  
• Venezuela claims victory in diplomatic row with the United States
  
• President Hugo Chavez celebrated the holidays with a flurry of autocracy
  
• President Chavez scraps controversial university law and planned tax hike
  
• Venezuela says it has nearly paid off its debt to Colombian exporters
  
• Legal battle looms over body of former President Carlos Andres Perez
  
• I can see Oscar Heck loves Venezuela ... so do I so we are panas burdas!

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  
• Crystallex International / Las Cristinas gold mine ... What happened!?
  
• Leave it to Hugo Chavez to turn natural calamity into political opportunity
  
• United States and Venezuela in new diplomatic crisis...
  
• Matt Gurney // Chavez and the Drug Smugglers
  
• Chinese offer to build additional rail line for FMO in Venezuela
  
• Chavez' Lines -- Happy New Year 2011!
  
• United States may nominate new Venezuela envoy
  
• Hillary Clinton and Hugo Chavez: the face of Obama's engagement
  
• New Venezuela parliament faces empowered Chavez
  
• Venezuela prices up after new devaluation
  
• Venezuela warns "speculators" after devaluation
  
• Andrew Mellon // Hugo Chavez takes over the Federal Reserve
  
• Graig Klein // Hugo Chavez is feeling the squeeze
  
• President Hugo Chavez highlights people's role in fighting adversity
  
• Adriaan Alsema // 'Chavez must fight guerrillas to avoid internal crisis'
  
• Chavez has stirred up Venezuelan politics and infuriated opponents
  
• Colombia expects Venezuela to extradite ELN-rebel soon...
  
• Venezuelan leader led his country from prosperity to chaos
  
• Mike Whitney // Why Washington hates Hugo Chavez
  
• Shamus Cooke // Last chance for Venezuela's Revolution?

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Tuesday, December 21, 2010
  
• J. Gregorio Yepez // El Mundo interviews the editor of Marxist.com
  
• VenEconomy: 2010 ... the year Democracy was washed away
  
• No Happy Christmas for Venezuelans ... 2011 will be far from prosperous

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Monday, December 20, 2010
  
• Fred Cederholm // 2011 will continue this trend. Have I got your attention, yet?
  
• Jackson Diehl // A chance for democracy in Venezuela
  
• Uribe willing to accept US military forces fearing attack from Venezuela
  
• Chavez' $8 billion fuel tab: Venezuela leader loses long bond debt battle
  
• CITGO sends relief aid to help 75,000 flood victims in Venezuela
  
• United States and Venezuela at odds on ambassador, Chavez powers

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Friday, December 17, 2010
  
• Opposition media compares President Hugo Chavez to Hitler ... again
  
• Putting an end to democracy means giving all the power to Hugo Chavez

• Businessmen say Venezuela's economic growth will be meaningless in 2011
  
• Barclays expects Venezuela to devalue the Bolivar against the US$ in 2011
  
• Andrew Cawthorne // How will Chavez decree rule impact Venezuela?
  
• Russian investment into Junin-6 Block project may reach $24 billion
  
• Air Force colonel and pilot detained for trying to fly a Falcon drug plane
  
• Venezuela: Archbishop calls for peace among political factions
  
• John Paul Rathbone // The Caudillo of Caracas?
  
• Wikileaks: Documents confirm US plans against Venezuela
  
• Foreign Ministry: China donates US$300,000 to Venezuelan rain victims
  
• Ongoing international arbitration for Mobil Oil over Venezuelan assets
  
• Enabling Chavez to complete the construction of his communist State
  
• United States says Hugo Chavez is subverting the will of Venezuelans
  
• VENEZUELA: New rules to rein in the Internet

• VHeadline Venezuela news review for Wednesday, December 15, 2010
  
• Belarus planning to import 10 million tonnes of Venezuelan oil in 2011
  
• Ekaterina Zelenkova // Is Rusoro Mining stock underestimated?
  
• Venezuelan President Chavez moving toward dictatorship: Opposition
  
• Chavez' Lines -- The people of difficulties!
  
• VenEconomy // A dynamic duo for imposing dictatorial silence
  
• Venezuela halted American Airlines flight crew over "loco Chavez" remark
  
• VenEconomy // Unfulfilled commitments made on December 10, 1948

• Fred Cederholm // We're in deep doo doo right now on literally every front!
  
• Opposition TV continues to dominate in Venezuela, new paper finds
  
• President Hugo Chavez expropriates 43 farms in Zulia and Merida
  
• Fedenaga president Heredia calls takeover of 43 landed estates "plunder"
  
• National Assembly (AN) discusses bill to reform the media law
  
• Popular Power Law passed in National Assembly (AN) permanent session
  
• Communes Law passed and sent to Chavez for review and promulgation
  
• President Hugo Chavez wants the AN to grant him Enabling Law powers
  
• President Hugo Chavez welcomes appointment of new TSJ magistrates
  
• Francisco Sesto is Minister of State for Urban Reconstruction of Caracas
  
• South of Lake Maracaibo ranchers ready for show-down with government
  
• President Hugo Chavez has chance to revamp the Bolivarian revolution
  
• Neil Reynolds // Chavez and the good old days of Marxist misadventure
  
• Venezuelan President receives UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah
  
• US 'tried to stop delivery of Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Venezuela'
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to govern from a Bedouin tent

• Venezuela hits absolute bottom as most corrupt country in Latin America
  
• Human rights group PROVEA demands scrutiny of Venezuelan police force
  
• PDVSA's average price of crude ended the week up $3.36 to $82.53 bbl
  
• Paraguay postpones ratification of Venezuela's Mercosur membership
  
• Andres Oppenheimer: WikiLeaks may help US image in the long-term
  
• Venezuela Formula One's Pastor Maldonado flies flag for Hugo Chavez
  
• Venezuela plans to include the Internet in a law that regulates the media
  
• Venezuela's Mercosur incorporation hostage of Argentine/Paraguay conflict
  
• Provea human rights group: Near 14,000 murders in Venezuela last year
  
• VenEconomy // Expropriations Continue
  
• WikiLeaks: Russia rebuffed United States over missile sales to Venezuela
  
• Movistar Venezuela pays US$600 million in overdue roaming debts
  
• PDVSA, Cantv, Movistar, Mercantil and Banesco in Venezuela top 100

• Chavez blames everybody but himself for disasters besetting Venezuela
  
• Roger F. Noriega // Why is Hugo Chavez Afraid of the US Congress?
  
• Hugo Chavez' ex-wife gives Washington insights into strongman's psyche
  
• Confagan rules out famine after Venezuelan rain emergency...
  
• WikiLeaks cables: Oil giants squeeze Chavez as Venezuela struggles
  
• WikiLeaks cables dismiss Hugo Chavez' nuclear ambitions
  
• US cables leaked on WikiLeaks: VZLA-Nicaragua tensions, blackmail
  
• US embassy cables: VZLA has 'deep domestic economic problems'
  
• US embassy cables: Safety concerns at VZLA oil fields used by Chevron
  
• US embassy cables: Venezuela 'a source of serious concern for Cuba'
  
• Officials 'extremely upset' at failure to attract international gas contract bids
  
• Venezuelan corruption cases in US spotlight Chavez officials
  
• Venezuelan military cooperation with Russia sets off alarms in Washington
  
• Belarusian President Lukashenko orders aid for flood-hit Venezuela
  
• Spain is sending humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Venezuela

• Iran placing medium-range missiles in Venezuela which can reach USA
  
• US leak says Nicaragua received "suitcases full of cash" from Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // Grudges and improvisation from person giving the orders
  
• Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez threatens unit of Spain's BBVA bank
  
• Pro-Chavez lawmakers appoint nine justices to Venezuela's Supreme Court
  
• Venezuela TV Network says government stake won't change anything
  
• Andres Izarra returns to head the Communications & Information Ministry
  
• Vice President Jaua confirms 22,000 new houses to be built in Caracas
  
• Government to provide supplies and compensate Higuerote resort hotels
  
• Catholic bishops have helped 15,000 victims of floods and mudslides
  
• Communes Minister Isis Ochoa: communal councils in emergency activities
  
• Fugitive Banco Federal owner Mezerhane bares his teeth from Florida
  
• Kenneth T. Tellis // Venezuelans should think anew...

• Vice President takes Miranda Governor Radonski to task about resort hotels
  
• Zulia State (Guajira and south of Lake) declared an emergency zone
  
• Private tourism doubts over what will happen once the emergency is over
  
• WikiLeaks revelations: new angle to bilateral ties; Brazil two-timing Chavez?
  
• London-based Welsh Trotskyist defends Venezuelan President support
  
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez puts pressure on 24/7 news network
  
• Chavez wins regional elections, loses second most-populated, Maracaibo
  
• WIKILEAKS: February's boxing match between Uribe and Hugo Chavez
  
• PDVSA reports El Palito refinery is operating at full capacity again...
  
• Andrew McKillop //Petro Keynes growth ... the (supposed) oil price threat!

• Opposition candidate claims Maracaibo as big prize in regional elections
  
• Franz J. T. Lee // Venezuela: Are we really losing the revolution?
  
• Iberian-American summit: Venezuela lambasts US spying and intrigue
  
• Venezuelan Agriculture Minister: food supplies not affected by emergency
  
• Finance Minister Jorge Giordani in China for big time agricultural projects
  
• Venezuela proposes Ali Rodriguez Araque as new UNASUR secretary
  
• Rusoro Mining Ltd admits to half million dollar losses in Q3, 2010
  
• Chavez government must accept failure to stop growth of high-risk barrios
  
• Cancun climate change summit gets underway … expectations low
  
• Venezuela: No return to high-risk zones and shack-traffickers warned
  
• 300 families evacuated as Manuelote reservoir in Zulia State leaks water
  
• Andrew Cawthorne // Venezuela's Chavez blames capitalism for deluges
  
• Accused terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, to be tried on perjury charges
  
• VenEconomy // The importance of making the right choice
  
• Cheap, or slave labor has never solved anything in the long run, trust me...

• Reported bribery to speed up Venezuela's accession to Mercosur
  
• Venezuela to pay additional US$150 million to Colombian businessmen
  
• President Hugo Chavez not to attend the Ibero-American Summit
  
• Laurent Le Pierres // This just in from the US Embarrassy
  
• Ghana's Jerry Rawlings sees Chavez opening up VTV to criticism
  
• China will pump US$40 billion into Venezuela's Orinoco belt by 2016
  
• WikiLeaks' cable shows USA plotted to 'exploit' Venezuela ties to Iran
  
• Indictment: Non-profit's ex-leader Louanne Aponte stole more than $1 million
  
• VenEconomy // Neither transparency nor legality
  
• Wikileaks in Venezuela: Espionage, Propaganda and Disinformation
  
• Venezuela's Jewish Community Sees "Dark Horizon"
  
• Yvette Rangel // Angel Falls in the Venezuelan rainforest
  
• PDVSA resumes operations at Amuay refinery; ready to restart Cardon
  
• Venezuela does not anticipate any changes at OPEC's meeting
  
• Barclays recommends more exposure to Venezuela on fiscal changes

• Venezuela: Chavez says Clinton feels superior because she is 'white'
  
• WikiLeaks sheds light on plight of Venezuela's Jews
  
• Chinese companies are increasing investments in Venezuela oil and gas
  
• Venezuela to liquidate Banco Federal according to the Official Gazette
  
• Chavez: ALBA adopts united front in Cancun climate change summit
  
• PJ and Voluntad Popular leaders desperate for emergency brownies
  
• Cablegate: Caracas embassy tackled drastic fall in US popularity
  
• WikiLeaks Embassy cables reveal VZLA's healthcare system collapsing
  
• VZLA scientists doubt nation has uranium, according to WikiLeaks cables
  
• British & Venezuela IT experts scoop $25,000 UNESCO prizes
  
• Shell sees stoppage at a crude joint venture in Venezuela over in days
  
• The Empire has no clothes: WikiLeaks, dirty face of US diplomacy
  
• Williams sign Venezuela's Pastor Maldonado for 2011 Formula One season
  
• Spanish companies view Venezuela as a risky country
  
• Spain's FM requests more legal certainty for Spaniards in Venezuela

• Wearing C-i-C uniform, President Hugo Chavez leads emergency effort
  
• It�s definitely spin: Cubans giving orders to Venezuelan military
  
• Rains in Venezuela hit more than 7,500 households, currently 259 shelters
  
• CADIVI's Manuel Barroso denies delays in repatriation of capital
  
• Maria Corina Machado reveals Cold War credentials; shows true colors
  
• Venezuelans can now buy cheap sports clothes in the new ALBA shops
  
• USA says Cuban spies directly advise Venezuelan President Chavez
  
• Spanish government taking actions to deal with case of Venezuelan judge
  
• China-made satellite keeps remote areas in Venezuela connected
  
• Alicia Machado quits Twitter after referring to the Koreas as the Chinas
  
• Institute of the Americas president Jeffrey Davidow will retire next May
  
• Guyana's Caracas ambassador Ishmael to be ambassador in Kuwait
  
• WikiLeaks reveals that Brazil likely knew of FARC presence in Venezuela
  
• VenEconomy // An emergency of just one political color
  
• 112 Venezuelans left stranded at Panama's Tocumen international airport
  
• VZLA calls on Israel to "make sincere efforts" toward Middle East peace
  
• Chris Herz // An open letter to President Hugo Chavez Frias: Wikileaks
  
• Wikileaks and Latin America: Same old imperious US diplomats