CARACAS, Monday September 08, 2008 | Update
Economy The labor dispute at General Motors (GM), which has lasted six weeks thus far, is risking even further the performance of the automotive sector, since the US automaker has a 40 percent share of vehicles production in Venezuela and 35.5 percent of car sales in the domestic market.
Politics
Otto Reich, the policy adviser on Latin America for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said that Hugo Chávez is an enemy of the US.
Politics
The Colombian government took steps Friday for repatriation to Colombia of ex minister Álvaro Araújo Noguera, who was arrested Thursday in Venezuela.
Chávez's Controversial Laws
One of the most controversial aspects of the draft law on Telecommunications, Information Technology and Postal Services is the likelihood of government control over Internet access through a single interconnection node.
Politics Head of the extinct Copre Arnoldo José Gabaldón says that the changes bolstered by that agency helped prevent "this system from turning into dictatorship."

Politics "Revolutions are imposed," says university professor Margarita López Maya regarding Chávez's stubborn efforts at implementing his failed constitutional reform.
Venezuela will buy training planes and fighters from China, and at the same time it has offered its territory to the Russian government for its aircrafts can stop over and its ships have a port of call, said President Hugo Chávez, who did not elaborate on the characteristics of the weaponry he will negotiate with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Based on preliminary scenarios for 2009 budget, official experts estimate domestic oil production at 3.6 million bpd. Official sources said that the figure is still under review, since Pdvsa is to submit more production scenarios concerning the reference price of oil. For the current period, the authorities set a price of USD 35, although the present oil basket averages USD 103.9. Therefore, the Treasury is receiving a USD 68.9 surplus.
Country. A major blackout hit half Venezuela last September 1 (Photo: Cheo Pacheco)