The RCTV case: Is the price too high for beneficial public broadcasting in Venezuela?

The decision made by the Venezuelan government not to renew the broadcasting license of Radio Caracas Television or RCTV is a legal issue, and should be judged according to the constitutional principles that guide media licensing in Venezuela.

The battle over the media is about race as well as class

The debate in Venezuela has less to do with the alleged absence of freedom of expression than with a perennially tricky issue locally referred to as ‘exclusion', a shorthand term for ‘race' and ‘racism'.

In Venezuela, Reality TV

Jesse Chacón, the minister for Telecommunication and Information Technology, commented on the paradox that sustains this schizophrenia between reality and its deformed reflection in the media, a reflection supported by private Venezuelan commercial interests.

Venezuela to enhance economic ties with Russia

Venezuela is ready to take bilateral cooperation with Russia further, especially in the economic field, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said.

London's Transport chief visits Venezuela

London's transport commissioner visited Venezuela as part of a deal to help improve the country's transport system.

Venezuela: 28.65 billion additional barrels certified in Orinoco belt

Venezuelan oil company PDVSA said that Canadian firm Ryder Scott certified a total reserve of an additional 28.65 billion barrels of Original Oil in Place (OOIP) in Block Carabobo 3 of the Orinoco Oil Belt.

Statoil Completes gas well in Deltana's offshore Venezuela next to Trinidad

Statoil announced that has made a second new gas discovery in Deltana area offshore Venezuela, due for development next year.

Pequiven to proceed with CRP refinery streams project: Chávez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez instructed state petrochemicals manufacturing company Pequiven to proceed with a much-heralded project to set up a petrochemicals manufacturing operation at Western Venezuela's Centro de Refinacion de Paraguana.

China seeks Venezuelan oil

China Petrochemical Corp., the nation's second-largest oil producer, is in talks to drill in Venezuela. The company is seeking ‘heavy oil' projects.

Venezuela plans to build four refineries, considering cooperation with Russian firms

Venezuela has to build four refineries to process heavy crude from fields in the Orinoco Belt and is considering establishing a joint venture with Russia to satisfy these goals.

Venezuelan Finance Minister: Venezuela paid first quarter debt to the World Bank

Venezuelans can say that we have a manageable foreign debt. It once reached 30% GDP, and it is now at 17%. The plan is that at the end of this decade, foreign debt will have reached just 12% GDP.

Venezuelan economy growing more than 8 percent

Venezuelan economic growth in 2007 is expected to be above 8 percent, Minister of Finance Rodrigo Cabezas said, thus meaning that the official goal of 5-6 percent growth would be exceeded.

Venezuelan unemployment drops to new lows

Venezuela's unemployment rate dropped to a new low in May, to 8.0%, the lowest level in over a decade, reported the country's National Institute of Statistic.

Venezuela's Chávez calls for greater role for communal councils

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez outlined plans to organize his nation's 18,000 communal councils, diagramming the way state, local, workers', farmers' and student groups should interact.

Venezuela wins hearts and minds with free eye care

Venezuelan ophthalmologists have operated on thousands of patients from 18 countries who either could not afford or had no access to eye surgery at home.

Mission Robinson strengthen Venezuelan educative system

The impossible is today a reality as 1,500,000 Venezuelans became literate.

Mission Robinson allowed Venezuela to be declared territory free of illiteracy on October 28, 2005.

Mission Negra Hipólita provides care to 13,000 homeless people

Mission Negra Hipólita has provided care to 13,000 homeless people living in extreme poverty all around Venezuela up to the first semester of the year 2007.

Venezuela approves $600 million to repair public hospitals

Venezuela's congressional finance committee approved $600 million in after-budget spending to fund repairs on 62 of the nation's public hospitals.

John Pilger, in his first feature film for the cinema, takes a look at the long history of intervention by the US in South America as the people of these countries struggle to free themselves from economic, cultural and military domination by their powerful neighbour to the north.

Musical route to crime-free life from Venezuela to Scotland

A project which uses music in an attempt to steer deprived children away from a life of crime could be piloted in one of Stirling's poorest areas. “El Sistema” initiative began on the street of Caracas, Venezuela, 32 years ago.