POLITICS
Venezuelan activist takes issue with President Chávez's speech
NGO: Chávez wants to force the Armed Force to take sides
POLITICS. Venezuelan activist Rocío San Miguel, and opposition leader Luis Manuel Esculpi, agreed on saying that President Hugo Chávez Frías seeks to provoke and instill fear when he admonished that the National Armed Force supports Chávez.
HYROCARBONS
Oil prices went down from USD 107.58 reported last week
Venezuela's oil basket slips to USD 107.06
HYROCARBONS. The Venezuelan oil basket sank USD 0.52 compared to last week, reported the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining on its Twitter account.
FINANCE
Bank loan portfolio hit by expropriations
WORLD AFFAIRS
The Guardian: Iranian attack is increasingly likely
WORLD AFFAIRS. In an article published on the website of the newspaper The Guardian, Julian Borger warns about a possible Iranian attack against the U.S. and its allies. The information, according to Borger, a diplomatic editor, was confirmed by James Clappe (...)
ECONOMY
Foreign exchange control curbs telecom investment
ECONOMY. The Venezuelan Chamber of Telecommunications Service Suppliers (Casetel) seeks to expand infrastructure capacity of mobile phones
FINANCE
Central Bank expands cash reserves
FINANCE
National Treasury's outlays at USD 6.67 billion early this year
Central government spending rises 41.7% in January
OPINION
Excerpts of column "Runrunes" of Thursday, February 02, 2012
OPINION. In this column and on our website, on November 15, we uncovered the issue of kidnappings of diplomats credited to Venezuela. Since then, things have gotten worse
News This Week
Thursday February 02, 2012
- Plans to increase loans to government projects move ahead
- H&P sues Venezuela on nationalized oil rigs
- Opposition: Venezuelan Parliament passed a "telltale law"
- Presidential pre-candidate urges Venezuelans to participate in primaries
- Builders: Investment in private construction may drop to zero in 2012
- Pro-government deputy: Banks should be subject to public policies
- Special operation for voters' registration suspended in Australia
- Venezuela balks at British warship deployment over Falkland Islands
Wednesday February 01, 2012
- Colombia to seek extradition of FARC member arrested in Venezuela
- Pdvsa oil sales to the US down 20% in November
- US Intel chief: PSUV will have a hard time replacing Chávez
- Minister opens training program for university teachers
- Trade association fears that price adjustments only favor manufacturers
- Pdvsa fails to provide guarantee for Abreu e Lima refinery with Petrobras
- Public spending is to focus on state-run companies
- Comsigua aims to produce 933,000 tons of briquettes in 2012
- Central Bank to grant USD 698 million to the agricultural sector
- Trade between Venezuela and Cuba soars 78%
Tuesday January 31, 2012
- Pro-government deputy Cilia Flores is the new Venezuela's Solicitor General
- Venezuelan gov't policies deal a heavy blow to domestic agriculture
- Supreme Tribunal of Justice opens the legal year
- Seven kidnapped diplomats in one year in Venezuela
- Research firm: Venezuelan imports from Colombia are to double
- Chávez opens up possibility of dialogue with Catholic bishops
- "We are using medieval methods against inflation"
- Trade association: Gov't to cut prices of 19 frozen products
- Costs Superintendence highlights people's watchdog role
- Congress speaker: February 4th rebellion prevented a right-wing coup d'état
Monday January 30, 2012
- Explanation requested of seized property of Spaniards in Venezuela
- Chávez threatens to nationalize banks failing to grant agricultural loans
- Hinterlaces: 51% think that Venezuela is going the wrong way
- Mexican Foreign Office requests inquest into ambassador's abduction
- Mexico's ambassador released after being kidnapped along with his wife
- Venezuelan finance minister: Law is to lower luxury consumption
- Last shipment of gold reserves to arrive in Venezuela on Monday
- Farmers association fears private sector's exclusion from new fund
- Moral Council admits a complaint against Justice Aponte Aponte
- Venezuela's accumulated inflation hits 528% in nine years
- Sidor expects to yield 3.7 million tons of liquid steel in 2012
- Venezuela's electricity grid to increase capacity by 4,000 MW
- Nationalization threats are not to gain Chávez more votes
- New authorities of Ministry of Agriculture are officially appointed
- Case of armed children ignites repudiation in Venezuela
- Mexico's ambassador to Venezuela released after hours of abduction
Saturday January 28, 2012
- Even with higher oil prices, Pdvsa's debt is up 40%
- Venezuela seeks to tear down private investment firewalls
- Damages of the electricity downtime estimated at USD 81 billion
- The year that could change Venezuela
- The key to cement voting as an institution
- Byelorussia admits irregularities in Venezuela
Analysis
ANALYSIS President Hugo Chávez called Sambil mall a "monster of capitalism"
Multimedia
Dossier
Byelorussia admits irregularities in Venezuela
Byelorussia's Head of State admitted irregularities in the building project that his country develops in Venezuela. The National Government has not even spoken on the subject, but TV cable channels from Western Europe have certainly been warning that the very president Aleksandr Lukashenko informed -about a month ago- on infractions in these lands.
Foreign Affairs
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez forwarded a letter to the United Nations General Assembly lambasting the United States and NATO for their military involvement in Libya and for the attempts at extending the "imperialist format."
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