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• Venezuela parliament resumes 3 weeks after brawl

  (AP) -- Venezuela's parliament roared back to life Tuesday with fractious debates between government and opposition lawmakers after a three-week paralysis following a brawl on the assembly floor.While no punches were thrown this time, the animated discus   Read more »

• Swerdlick: Why the GOP won't work with Barack Obama

  With so many pundits declaring that President Barack Obama 's second-term agenda is dead on arrival, you could be forgiven if you mistook the last few days for the first week of May 2009.Back then, there was already angst that in Obama's first first 100   Read more »

• Outlook grim in Venezuela's essential oil industry

  (AP) -- Only the filthy water from broken sewer pipes keeps the dust down in front of Ramon Boet's shop, which sells statues of saints and other religious objects.In the distance, massive tankers pull up to a half-century-old refinery that processes much   Read more »

• Haiti renames airport for Hugo Chavez

  (AP) -- A spokesman for Haiti's prime minister says an airport in the country's north has been renamed for the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.Gary Bodeau says the Cap-Haitien International Airport will now be called the Hugo Chavez International A   Read more »

• Venezuela crackdown deemed worst in years

  (AP) -- National Guard troops beat dozens of opposition supporters inside a barracks for refusing to accept the government-certified electoral victory of Hugo Chavez's heir, a leading human rights lawyer charged Thursday in what he called Venezuela's wor   Read more »

Around the web

• Explaining Chavista Successes as well as the Danger Spots in Post-Chávez Venezuela

  NACLA: Report on the Americas (Vol 46, No. 1) Many accounts of recent Venezuelan developments imply or state explicitly that with Hugo Chávez out of the picture, Venezuela will be forced to change course completely or face a dreadful crisis.Thus, for instance, 11:17 AM from Venezuela Analysis Read more »

• REUTERS SUMMIT-Venezuela business group sees dire economy in 2013

  of am economic model built on oil-financed government spending, the backbone of the self-styled socialist revolution of president Hugo Chavez, who ruled Venezuela for 14 years until his death from cancer on March 5. Sketching a dire scenario for 2013, Botti 11:05 AM from CNBC Read more »

• Venezuela’s Turmoil No Laughing Matter

  in nearly every other country the private sector provides? The reasons have been well documented. Under deceased President Hugo Chávez , oil-rich Venezuela has become a statist system through widespread nationalizations, tight foreign exchange restrictions 9:57 AM from Wall Street Journal Blogs Read more »

• Free Market Reforms Needed to Fix Venezuela's Socialist Economic Problems

  with the third-largest oil reserves in the world. Many economists blame the socialist policies of the late President Hugo Chavez. He instituted price controls on some products to curb inflation, resulting in both reduced domestic production and high inflation 5/22/13 from Voice of America Read more »

• Venezuela: Life after Chavez

  an increasingly bitter election campaign, filmmaker Fernando Lucena went to Venezuela for People & Power to find out why Hugo Chavez had exerted such a hold over large sections of Venezuelan society, to look at the successes and failures of his ‘chavismo’ 5/22/13 from Venezuela Analysis Read more »