OPPOSITION
López: Attorney General should target mafias feeding on the country's blood
OPPOSITION. In response to the subpoena served by the Attorney General Office on Friday, former Chacao municipality mayor Leopoldo López lamented on Twitter the decision of Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz to press charges against him for embezzlement during his administration.
MARIO SILVA'S RECORDING
Transcript of Mario Silva's recording
MARIO SILVA'S RECORDING. MARIO SILVA: ...And they are likely to cause another devaluation; they are thinking it over. They are thinking it over. I mean: those who have been dealing with the issue of the dollar... Do you remember that in a prior briefing I said that Diosdado's [Cabello, the Venezuelan Congress Speaker] funding sources should be chopped off? Do you remember? I even told you that one of his funding sources, two of his most important funding sources were Cadivi [Foreign Exchange Administration Board] and Seniat [Integrated National Customs and Tax Administration Service].
OIL & GAS
Schlumberger to lend Pdvsa USD 1 billion
Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum and Schlumberger's CEO Paal Kibsgaard are paying a visit to the facilities of joint venture Petromonagas, Carabobo division, in the Orinoco Oil Belt
ELECTION 2013
The decision was published on Tuesday
Venezuelan top court refuses first election contest
The Trial Court of the Electoral Chamber did not admit the legal action filed by Attorney Oscar Arnal as it failed to meet the formal requirements set forth in the legislation of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice
ELECTION 2013
NGO calls for prompt response to actions challenging vote results
ELECTION 2013
Electoral body puts off talk on fingerprints, audit, and Maduro
ECONOMY
Venezuelan gov't ready to support exports to Mercosur countries
HYDROCARBONS
Venezuelan oil basket ends at USD 100.62
IMPORTS
Venezuela to bring imports back to level of 2009
GOVERNMENT
Venezuelan president arrives in Ecuador to attend Correa's inauguration
He is "a great Latin American leader, born in the heat of the struggles that were also championed by the commander of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez," the Venezuelan president said
RESERVES
Venezuela's liquid reserves down to USD 2.2 billion
Assets in monetary gold account for USD 19.1 billion
The Hard Fall
On almost every scorecard, from poverty to corruption to dictatorship to security, Venezuela is now bundled with the world's basket cases and failed states
RESERVES
Venezuela's liquid reserves down to USD 2.2 billion
Based on the Central Bank of Venezuela's monthly balance, the country's international liquid reserves declined to USD 2.2 billion at the end of April.
The Hard Fall
It is said, the bigger you are the harder you fall. Thus it was with Venezuela. In the 1960s, Venezuela was really big -richer than Singapore, South Korea, Spain, and every country in the Americas, save the US and Canada. No nation in Latin America had progressed like marvelous Venezuela, the region's first democracy. It was heralded as the first Latin (...)
OIL & GAS
Schlumberger to lend Pdvsa USD 1 billion
Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum and Schlumberger's CEO Paal Kibsgaard are paying a visit to the facilities of joint venture Petromonagas, Carabobo division, in the Orinoco Oil Belt
JUDICIARY
To be charged with embezzlement
Attorney General's Office subpoenas opposition former mayor
ELECTION 2013
The decision was published on Tuesday
Venezuelan top court refuses first election contest
The Trial Court of the Electoral Chamber did not admit the legal action filed by Attorney Oscar Arnal as it failed to meet the formal requirements set forth in the legislation of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice
ELECTION 2013
NGO calls for prompt response to actions challenging vote results
ELECTION 2013
Electoral body puts off talk on fingerprints, audit, and Maduro
ECONOMY
Venezuelan gov't ready to support exports to Mercosur countries
HYDROCARBONS
Venezuelan oil basket ends at USD 100.62
IMPORTS
Venezuela to bring imports back to level of 2009
GOVERNMENT
Venezuelan president arrives in Ecuador to attend Correa's inauguration
He is "a great Latin American leader, born in the heat of the struggles that were also championed by the commander of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez," the Venezuelan president said
RESERVES
Venezuela's liquid reserves down to USD 2.2 billion
Assets in monetary gold account for USD 19.1 billion
News This Week
Friday May 24, 2013
- Venezuela's liquid reserves down to USD 2.2 billion
- Electoral body puts off talk on fingerprints, audit, and Maduro
- López: Attorney General should target mafias feeding on the country's blood
- Schlumberger to lend Pdvsa USD 1 billion
- Venezuelan president arrives in Ecuador to attend Correa's inauguration
- Venezuela to bring imports back to level of 2009
- Venezuelan oil basket ends at USD 100.62
- NGO calls for prompt response to actions challenging vote results
- Attorney General's Office subpoenas opposition former mayor
- Venezuelan top court refuses first election contest
- Venezuelan gov't ready to support exports to Mercosur countries
- Transcript of Mario Silva's recording
Thursday May 23, 2013
- Cuban population in Venezuela doubles in one decade
- Venezuela's domestic debt soars 97.5% in three years
- Central bank: Venezuelan economy requires USD 3 billion monthly
- Russian Rosneft to grant USD 1.5 billion credit line to Venezuela
- Maduro: TV news channel Globovisión to engage in peace campaign
- Venezuelan Attorney General's Office to investigate case of audio tape
- Expert: Silva's audio recording is full of evidence of high treason
- Police helicopter crashes north Venezuela
Wednesday May 22, 2013
- "Recording gave the Attorney General Office plenty of evidence"
- Audio tape to be submitted to Attorney General on Thursday
- Maduro, Cabello attend military activities on Orchila island
- Entrepreneurs, gov't seek to streamline US dollar sale procedures
- Venezuelan ex-governor expelled from Nicaragua
- Authorities report 125 cases of influenza west Venezuela
- Venezuelan Parliament approves funds to import toilet paper
- Venezuelan President disparages opposition charges
- Maduro to attend inauguration of his Ecuadorian counterpart
- Venezuelan Executive Office admits distortions in US dollar sale
- Local elections likely to be held in Venezuela on November 24
Tuesday May 21, 2013
- Right to speak restored to opposition deputies in the National Assembly
- Pdvsa drills 2.74 million bpd at March
- Venezuelan gov't vows to adjust prices regularly
- Congress Speaker terms "party" the tape introduced by Venezuelan opposition
- Congress Speaker: I have sailed in thunderstorms for over 14 years
- Capriles: Corrupt governments always implode
- Venezuelan army commander downplays "breaking point"
- Mario Silva off the air for "health reasons"
- Samuel Moncada is the new Venezuelan ambassador to the UN
- TV tycoons and Venezuelan President Maduro discuss changes
- Alí Rodríguez: Maduro's attacks strengthened Capriles
- Business as usual is bound to US acceptance of Venezuelan President
Monday May 20, 2013
- Chávez's supporter claims that tape unveiled by dissenters is a set-up
- Venezuelan opposition leader plans to disclose "serious facts"
- Venezuela's Maduro wins by 562,010 in 5,729 contested polling stations
- Venezuelan dissent unveils tape charging Congress Speaker with conspiracy
- Washington denounces anti-Semitism in Venezuela
- Venezuela wants to reinstate ambassadors with the US
- Maduro announces meeting with new owners of Globovisión
- Socialism trapped at this moment in time
Saturday May 18, 2013
Economy
DEBT Although the Venezuelan oil basket price has been above the USD 100 ceiling, Venezuela's debt has continued growing.
Dossier
The dialogue experience
José Vicente Rangel clearly said: "We are not conducting negotiations threatened with a gun in the head." He warned behind closed doors in the midst of the social upheaval occurred during the oil strike in 2002 and 2003. Dissenting Timoteo Zambrano answered back that no other option was available: "The thing is that otherwise, you do not negotiate."
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