Venezuelan Antonio Esclera Busto relates

The Venezuelan term malandro has transformed in recent decades.

Honorary President, First Venezuelan Criminological Congress, Valencia, Venezuela, July 1972.

Theater also has its place in the Venezuelan street art world.

Eduardo goes on to discuss the current division in Venezuelan society

Génesis Carmona, Venezuelan beauty queen, another victim of the political crisis.

Venezuelan Literature collects and examines this important side of the country.

An economist, Orlando Ochoa, explained that rent seeking dominated the Venezuelan economy.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is balancing his country s books, too, for now.

Internationally known Venezuelan chef Sumito Estevez also took part in the conversation

Yet, if this is what the Venezuelan people want, then so be it.

GV What stories are most commonly told in the Venezuelan literature of today?

MacGregor was a decorated army officer in the British, Portuguese and Venezuelan armies.

Visit his online gallery to see and read many more Venezuelan 'faces and voices'.

GV What stories do you think there are left to tell in Venezuelan literature?

The artist who worked on the animation is a Venezuelan named Juan Carlos Hernández Ramirez.

We share here some of the messages of strength and respect for the Venezuelan people

The recovery of oil prices after 2001 boosted the Venezuelan economy and facilitated social spending.

Immigration of Arabs in Venezuela has influenced Venezuelan culture, in particular Arabic food and music.

Cuba cannot remain isolated, dependent on Venezuelan petrodollars and penalized by America s ill conceived trade embargo.

It seems that the Venezuelan government does not care much for Matt Groening s show, The Simpsons.

Sport Baseball is Venezuela's most popular sport, with the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League existing since 1945.

Thus, the opposition achieved its objective a beachhead in Venezuelan politics with real and significant popular support.

KB I m currently working on an anthology of contemporary Venezuelan writing to be published by Ragpicker Press.

The increase has been so intense that murder is now an important component of Venezuelan modern history.

Some of the Venezuelan initiatives are going nowhere, but others, such Petrocaribe, Petrosur, and TeleSUR, are taking off.

One could also mention the recent Sino African summit in Beijing, or the intensification of Venezuelan Iranian relations.

Our guest today is a Venezuelan blogger, who is also a writer, human rights activist, and an advocate.

Lastly, from 13 to 20 November 2005, there will be a Venezuelan cultural festival with the African people.

A number of websites were blocked by Venezuelan CANTV, according to reports. The reason for the block remains unclear.

According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, homicides have been rising at an alarming rate for nearly three decades.

More than half of Venezuelan avian and mammalian species are found in the Amazonian forests south of the Orinoco.

We wish also to highlight the special constitutional nature of the Venezuelan State as a popular and participative democracy.

While they were not a majority of the Venezuelan population, which consisted of Spanish descendants and various indigenous groups among others, they were a large part of the population and formed a core population in areas along the approximately 2,000 kilometres of the Venezuelan Caribbean coastline.

Outside of Cuba, he does not want to be held captive by Cuba s one international supporter Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Cuban and Venezuelan involvement in political parties in Mexico or Brazil, for example, is undisputable, but not necessarily very relevant.

You also like Venezuelan writers like Ana Teresa Torres , Fedosy Santaella , José Luis Palacios , Gustavo Pereira , and Gabriel Jimenez Eman .

In the image, in Mexican and Venezuelan Spanish respectively 'I'm with you, my friend', 'Thank you, pal. You're the best.'

A day earlier, I had had lunch at the Venezuelan central bank, sitting next to the deputy governor, Gastón Parra Luzardo.

And he admitted to Venezuelan television that a lack of efficiency in everyday routine has endangered the government s policies many times.

We kick off a short series of posts around this subject with some impressions coming from Japanese blogs about Venezuelan music.

Economy The Central Bank of Venezuela is responsible for developing monetary policy for the Venezuelan bolívar which is used as currency.

GV You've also said you were hooked when you read your first Venezuelan works of literature. What about it so attracted you?

KB Victor Bravo talks of Venezuelan literary tradition as defined by the absurd, the grotesque, the fantastical, and a fascination with evil.

In Venezuelan slums, criminals (or malandros, as they're popularly known) are often thought of as the epitome of either success or corruption.