August 20, 2008 International Herald Tribune
	Venezuela seizes control of Cemex cement plants -- Mexico urged Venezuela to negotiate with its cement producer Cemex SAB on Tuesday after the Venezuelan government seized control of its cement plants saying no deal could be reached on the terms of a nationalization ordered by President Hugo Chavez.
August 15, 2008 VNet
	Which Way Venezuela? -- Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed.
August 14, 2008 AP
	Venezuela eases price controls on food despite inflationary concerns -- Venezuela raised the regulated prices of foods ranging from bread to beef by up to 50 percent and removed price controls from other goods on Tuesday in a bid to ease sporadic shortages in supermarkets.
August 14, 2008 Houston Chronicle
	Venezuela sends less crude oil to the United States -- Venezuelan exports of crude oil and fuels to the U.S. dropped to their lowest levels since 1999 in the first half of the year as the South American country boosted sales to India and China, a government report showed.
August 14, 2008 ZNet
	Land Reform Conflict in Venezuela’s Strategic Water Source -- Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government's land reform programs were attacked last Thursday by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralded by the "Bolivarian Revolution" in their rural Andean Mountain valley.
August 06, 2008 Venezuela Analysis
	Venezuelan Supreme Court Ratifies Candidate Disqualifications as Constitutional -- Venezuela's Supreme Court issued a series of decisions yesterday and today that validated the Comptroller General's ruling to temporarily disqualify nearly 300 opposition and pro-Chavez Venezuelans accused of corruption from holding public office. The decisions were eagerly awaited by the opposition, which says that the disqualifications are an effort to eliminate viable candidates from running in the November 23rd regional elections
August 06, 2008 Venezuela Analysis
	Venezuela’s Chavez Pushes for New World Financial System in Argentina -- Countries in South America are constructing a new international financial system, said the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, after meeting with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Brazilian President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva in Buenos Aires on Monday.
July 31, 2008 AP
	Venezuela, 18 nations create food fund -- Venezuela and 18 nations in the Americas on Wednesday created a regional food fund to help ensure supplies for poor countries. The fund known as Petro Food is largely backed by a Venezuelan promise to donate US$0.05 for every barrel of oil Venezuela sells at prices of more than US$100 per barrel.
July 30, 2008 Philadelphia Inquirer
	Venezuela marketing coffee through Citgo stations -- Venezuela is better known for oil than for coffee. But the South American nation has decided to copy its neighbor, Colombia, and retail its aromatic caffeinate directly to North Americans - using Venezuelan-owned Citgo local gas stations and convenience stores as a distribution network.
July 28, 2008 Venezuela Analysis
	Venezuela’s Chavez Approves $566 Million in Infrastructure Projects -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez approved funds for the construction of a series of new infrastructure projects on his Sunday talk show Aló Presidente yesterday. The new projects are extensions to the nation-wide mass transit systems already in progress. President Chavez called on his ministers to carry out the projects with “socialist values” and insisted on only giving contracts to companies that will transfer technology to Venezuela.
July 26, 2008 Green Left Weekly
	Venezuela: Heirs of the revolution -- A 25-year-old history student and political activist in the student city of Merida, Churrio is amongst the thousands of young people who have taken up the challenge of building the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV), whose formation was officially announced in July.
July 26, 2008 AGB/RA
	Venezuela's $100-a barrel oil for Spain -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country will sell oil to Spain at 100 dollars a barrel in exchange for importing some goods.
July 24, 2008 Novosti
	Venezuela says media distorted facts on Chavez visit to Russia -- The Venezuelan government on Wednesday accused international and domestic media of deliberately misinterpreting information on President Hugo Chavez's recent visit to Russia. Some media reports said Chavez offered to host Russian military bases in Venezuela and to buy $30 billion worth of Russian weaponry in the next four years.
July 23, 2008 Dow Jones Newswires
	Venezuela New Mining Law Could Increase State Role -Lawmaker -- A new mining bill that the Venezuelan National Assembly will start to examine in August should increase the state's role in the mining sector through the creation of new state mining companies, joint ventures with international firms and by possibly revoking some concessions, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
July 23, 2008 Latin Business Chronicle
	Venezuela: Latin America's Richest? -- Venezuela will replace Chile as the country with the region's highest GDP per capita and Argentina as the region's third-largest economy, according to a Latin Business Chronicle analysis of data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF
July 22, 2008 Xinhua
	Venezuela Launches New Child Care Program -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced the launch of a new child care social program designed to assist children in situations of risk or separation from their families.
July 22, 2008 Dissident Weekly
	The Facts about the List of “Banned Candidates” in Venezuela -- Sections of the Venezuelan opposition are opposing a decision by Venezuela’s Comptroller General, Closdobaldo Russián, who has submitted a list of 386 individuals to be banned from standing for public office for (being guilty of) corruption and/or misuse of public funds. The opposition, finding an echo in sections of the corporate media, has argued that the “list of banned candidates is politically motivated and illegal.”1 They add that the measure is unconstitutional. This interpretation, as we prove below, is simply wrong. The facts do not bear out the charge that this is a politically motivated decision by Venezuelan Comptroller General, nor that it is illegal and/or unconstitutional.
July 09, 2008 Venezuelanalysis
	Venezuelan Consumption Increases and Inflation Remains High -- According to the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), consumer prices rose by 2.4% in June, bringing total accumulated inflation for the first half of this year to 15.1%. Meanwhile, Venezuelans are spending more with their credits cards, while new car sales have cooled off relative to the 2007 boom.
July 05, 2008 Venezuelanalysis
	Non-Aligned Countries Endorse Venezuelan Proposal for Alternative World Media -- At the 7th Conference of Information Ministers of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries held in Venezuela’s Margarita Island last week, more than 80 country delegations endorsed Venezuela’s proposal to create an alternative worldwide media network.
July 04, 2008 CNN
	Venezuela orchestra inspires fight against child poverty -- Britain's rundown housing estates and deprived inner cities will be the setting for a new project that aims to use classical music to lift children out of the poverty trap.
July 04, 2008 Economic Times
	Venezuela calls on OPEC to subsidize oil for poor countries -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday called on the OPEC cartel to absorb the costs of the oil import bills of the world's 50 poorest countries, predicting that the price of crude is "going to continue rising."
July 03, 2008 Business Week
	Venezuela 1Q oil income rises 80 percent -- Venezuela's state oil company said net income rose 80 percent in the first quarter as world oil prices soared. Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, said late Tuesday that net income reached $3.5 billion in the quarter ended March 31 -- up from $1.9 billion in the same period last year.
July 03, 2008 AP
	Venezuela 1st Quarter oil income rises 80 percent -- Venezuela's state oil company said net income rose 80 percent in the first quarter as world oil prices soared. The state oil company funneled US$2.7 billion into social spending in the first quarter, more than half of which went to Venezuela's Development Bank, which finances infrastructure and other projects.
July 02, 2008 Venezuelanalysis
	Venezuela Urges United Response to Food and Energy Crises at MERCOSUR Summit -- At the 35th Summit of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez advocated deepening South American independence from imperialist countries through united responses to social problems.
June 26, 2008 Rabble.ca
	Wilpert Takes Stock of the Bolivarian Revolution -- Gregory Wilpert has pulled off a triumph on two fronts with his new book on the Bolivarian Revolution, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power. Most obviously, Wilpert's book — in both its scope and (sometimes almost maddening) objectivity — is the most detailed and credible analysis yet published of the Venezuelan revolution, which itself represents, arguably, the single most significant challenge today to the hegemony of global capitalism.
June 23, 2008 Venezuelanalysis
	New Venezuelan Finance Minister Presents Plan to Fight Inflation -- On Sunday, Ali Rodríguez, the new Venezuelan Finance Minister, detailed ministry plans to take on the “immediate challenge” of inflation by investing Venezuela’s “overflowing” oil revenues in a broadened state apparatus to stimulate agricultural production and gradually leave behind “state capitalism.”
June 22, 2008 New York Times
	Prison orchestras offer hope in Venezuela -- In a project extending Venezuela's renowned system of youth orchestras to some of the most hardened prisons in the country, Ahmad and hundreds of other prisoners are learning a repertoire that includes Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, folk songs from the Venezuelan plains and Mercedes Sosa's classic lullaby "Duerme Negrito."
June 21, 2008 Venezuelanalysis
	In the Land of the Master Chess Player -- We’ve passed through and taped interviews in Carora, called the “first socialist city” of Venezuela, then dipped down into Sanare to visit and tape in agroecological coops before winding through the eastern edge of the Andes to Guanare, the nondescript capital of Portuguesa where stayed the night before heading through Chavez’s home state of Barinas.
June 20, 2008 Venezuelanalysis
	U.S. Accusations of Venezuelan Support for Hezbollah “Mud Slinging” Says Venezuelan Official -- A “new, unfounded accusation” is how the President of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Civil-Military Front, Lieutenant Colonel Héctor Herrera, described allegations by the U.S. Treasury Department that a Venezuelan diplomat and Venezuelan travel agent, both of Lebanese decent, are financial supporters of the Lebanon-based political and military organization Hezbollah.
June 19, 2008 Venezuelanalysis
	Venezuela’s Electoral Council to Respect Disqualification of Candidates Accused of Corruption -- National Electoral Council (CNE) member Germán Yépez confirmed Tuesday that the CNE will respect a ruling by the government’s top anti-corruption watch dog, Comptroller General Clodosbaldo Russian, prohibiting nearly 400 people who are being investigated corruption and misuse of public funds from running for public office in the upcoming regional elections in November.