• 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

• Connie Mack hammers Obama and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on CITGO
  
• President Chavez and Wikileaks: US policy to isolate him will continue to fail
  
• No let up in rains … uneasy emergency response government-opposition
  
• Initial reaction in Venezuela to Wikileaks latest is cool and expectant
  
• President Hugo Chavez calls on Hillary Clinton to resign over WikiLeaks
  
• Venezuela relaunches state airline Conviasa with a fleet of 15 aircraft
  
• 13 people known to have died and 2,000 families affected in rain storms
  
• Venezuela declares State of Emergency in rain-wrecked Falcon State
  
• Venezuela's Cardon refinery stops operations amidst storm
  
• VenEconomy // Heavy rains, radicalism and politicization
  
• Venezuela to resume supply of subsidized fuel to Colombia
  
• Colombia promises good relationship with United States, Venezuela

• Former ambassador: Other six ETA members work for Chavez' government
  
• Venezuela's PDVSA still has debts with oil suppliers incurred in 2009
  
• Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro: Venezuela will burn if Chavez is killed
  
• Colombia: Improving ties with Venezuela is not affecting US relations
  
• Rusoro Mining results for Q3 2010: Net income increased to $7.4 million
  
• Wall Street elves have been busy crunching numbers, graphing the results
  
• Editorial: There are NGOs and NGOs… government needs to discern
  
• WikiLeaks: Sarkozy aide branded Venezuela's Hugo Chavez 'crazy'
  
• Venezuelan government in preventive mode versus constant rains
  
• Cadivi strikes out more fraudsters abusing the system
  
• Former anti-drugs czar questions seizure and use of narco assets
  
• BBVA denies trying to sell Venezuela bank for $2 billion
  
• Jasmine Enberg // Hugo Chavez threatening another TV station
  
• UNASUR Summit in Guyana approves Democratic Protocol
  
• Seeking cash, President Hugo Chavez looks to sell CITGO
  
• Mark Riddix // Who would buy CITGO from Hugo Chavez?
  
• Chavez: Russia has given Venezuela a $4 billion credit to purchase arms
  
• Venezuela buying 10-12 Chinese medium-range transport aircraft
  
• Benedict Mander // Christmas feast under threat in Venezuela
  
• President Chavez announces 14 tonnes of aid for rain victims in Colombia
  
• Heavy rains falling in Venezuela caused three more deaths in Caracas
  
• VenEconomy // A Mythomaniac Revolution