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President Hugo Chavez on Friday called for more regulation of the media in Venezuela, denouncing what he calls a private media A tyrannyA on the airwaves.

VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: Infrastructure Minister and president of state telecommunications agency , Diosdado Cabello has told the National Assembly that he is determined to end "media landed-estates" . Detailing the current situation, the Minister insists that all radio stations must update their licenses and data to ...

VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: The Brazilian Senate has returned a letter sent by Venezuelan Ambassador to Brazil, Julio Garcia Montoya criticizing the delay of Congress in ratifying Venezuela's entry into the Southern Cone Economic Zone .

President Hugo Chavez's government is imposing new regulations on cable television while revoking the licenses of more than 200 radio stations, the top telecommunications official said Thursday.

Headlines: 11 C'bean countries have Failed States Index Thursday, 09 July 2009 Eleven Caribbean nations have been included in the 2009 Failed States Index.

From the Editors of VenEconomy: With the midst of tsunami of information unleashed by the institutional crisis in Honduras, the Chavez administration's latest accelerated attack on the media has gone practically unnoticed.

By Jeremy Morgan Latin American Herald Tribune staff CARACAS - Opposition Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma ended his hunger strike alter Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said he would carry out a 'judicial study' to establish whether laws had been violated in Venezuela.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been the clear winner so far in Honduras's political crisis, leading the hemispheric condemnation of the June 28 military ouster of President Manuel Zelaya while orchestrating Mr.

El Universal: Venezuelan industries have been faced with plummeting sales, inventories and production since 2007.

VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: President Chavez has attended a graduation ceremony of 636 second lieutenants from all branches of the Bolivarian Armed Force , which took place at the Bolivarian Air Force school in Aragua.

Politics The opposition Unified Panel on Wednesday urged Secretary-General of the Organization of the American States Jos Miguel Insulza to "keep his word" and publicly announce the commitments agreed upon with Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma about his hunger strike.

VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes: Manuel Rosales, the Venezuelan fugitive in Peru, is pushing the idea that the prosecution of corrupt government officials criminalizes politics.

Global Post: Let's recap: The Petrobono 2011 was supposed to be for $2 billion, but expanded to $3 billion.

Venezuela oil drilling slowed to a five-year low in June after the countrya s state oil company deferred payments to service companies, spurring rig shutdowns.

Caracas becomes more expensive, while Brazil's and Mexico's top cities become less expensive for expats.

By Jeremy Morgan Latin American Herald Tribune staff CARACAS - Consumer prices rose a further 1.8% in June, down from 2.4% in the same month a year before and a flat 2% in May this year, and echoing an identical increase in April.

Venezuelaa s bolivar fell to its lowest in a week in the unregulated market after state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela sold less than half the $3 billion of dollar bonds it planned in the local market.

The price at which Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA sold $1.42 billion of bonds suggests it was not attractive to foreign investors...

As the situation unfolds at pace in Honduras, state television in Venezuela is not letting up on its coverage. It interviewed President Manuel Zelaya live from his airplane as he tried to return to Honduras on Sunday and repeated hourly footage of the clashes between security forces and pro-Zelaya demonstrators outside the airport. The around-the-clock focus points to how closely the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, and his supporters are following events in Tegucigalpa and how keen they are to see Mr Zelaya back in office...