**Venezuelanalysis Newsletter**
**Venezuelanalysis Newsletter**
THIS WEEK IN THE NEWS
**Venezuela Boasts Latin American Revolution, Challenges Obama at U.N.
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4819
During his address to the 64th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on the world to join Latin American countries in constructing a new type of socialism.
**Venezuela's Chavez Invites U.S. Labor Unions to ALBA, Invites Obama to "Peace Dialogue"
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4817
During a meeting with U.S. labor union leaders in New York on Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez invited the unionists to participate in the fair trade integration bloc known as the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), and he invited U.S. President Barack Obama to hold a "peace dialogue."
**Amended Law Gives Venezuelan Youth More Autonomy
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4815
On Tuesday, the National Assembly approved modifications to the National Youth Law which establish the right of students to occupy vacant job positions in places they have been volunteering, and creates the National Institute of Popular Power of Youth.
**Venezuelan Auto Workers Decry Possible Firings of Union Leaders as Mitsubishi Plant Reopens
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4814
The Mitsubishi plant in Anzoategui, Venezuela reopened on Monday following a month of government-mediated negotiations to solve a conflict over labor conditions. Now, workers say regional Labor Ministry functionaries and company management are colluding to depose more than 150 workers, among them key union leaders.
**Venezuela's President Chavez calls for liberation of the Sahrawi people
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4811
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, expressed his solidarity to the people of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in their struggle for their independence from Morocco.
**Venezuelan Community Media Workers Hold Counter Summit to IAPA
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4810
Journalists, reporters and media workers representing independent, alternative, community and public media from across Latin America met in Caracas in a counter-summit to protest the so-called "Emergency Forum on Freedom of Speech" that was organized by the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) and the Venezuelan Press Bloc over September 18-19.
**Venezuela's Chavez Calls on Honduras Coup Government to Peacefully Hand over Power to Manuel Zelaya
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4807
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today congratulated the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya on his "heroic" return to his homeland eighty-six days after he was ousted by a military coup on June 28. Chavez also called on the coup regime, headed by Roberto Micheletti, to peacefully hand over power to Zelaya.
**Venezuela's Chavez Says Time to Prepare for 2http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4805
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez says winning two thirds of the National Assembly in the elections for that entity next year is of "of high revolutionary priority" in order to be able to fully continue the Bolivarian Revolution.
THIS WEEK IN ANALYSIS
~Al Jazeera Interview: Hitman Says was Offered $25 Million to Kill Chavez
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4820
In interview footage obtained by Al Jazeera a Colombian paramilitary confirmed that a "wealthy Venezuelan politician" named Manuel Rosales, offered him $25 million to assassinate President Chávez by any means.
~Venezuela: Economic Crisis Sparks New Measures, Structures
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4818
Faced with the growing impact of the global economic crisis, Washington's intentions to establish seven military bases in Colombia and growing challenges in solving structural problems, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reaffirmed the need to build a new state.
~The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a Fair Trade Association
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4816
One of the most important programs to counteract the neoliberal trade model is the Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas or in English, Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. ALBA was designed in collaboration with Cuban President Fidel Castro as an alternative to the FTAA, to promote the idea of social, political, and economic integration within the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
~Declaration about the Situation in Honduras by ALBA Member Countries in the OAS
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4812
Meeting in Washington DC, as representatives to the Organisation of American States (OAS) from member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of Americas (ALBA), we express our condemnation of the massive violation of human rights of the people of Honduras.
~Myths and Realities of the Struggle Against Drugs in Venezuela
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4809
In order to prepere international public opinion for a possible military attack on Venezuela, U.S. government propaganda insists on the fallacy that the Hugo Chavez government in Venezuela is facilitating drug trafficking. This article examines the myths and realities about the anti-drug struggle in Venezuela.
