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Last Saturday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned from an eleven-day tour through northern Africa, western and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Eurasia. On the tour, he promoted the construction of a "pluri-polar world" through extensive bilateral ties with more than a dozen countries. He also took center stage at the Venice Film Festival alongside Oliver Stone. On the domestic front, the opposition television station Globovision is under investigation for allegedly calling for a coup d'etat, and the former director of Colombia's main intelligence agency revealed that the agency worked directly with the Venezuelan opposition to plot to overthrow the Chavez government.

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What a week it has been, with the seven military bases in Colombia and the new education law continuing to dominate news and street talk here. Below are the headlines from this week on Venezuelanalysis, and until we work out how to fix our newsletter function, please copy and paste the link below the article for more information on it.

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Please see the news section below to follow Venezuelanalysis.com's close coverage of the ongoing conflict between Venezuela and Colombia over Colombia's deal to increase the U.S. military presence in Colombia. Also in the news, the PSUV initiated a broad internal restructuring, and comments by the Oil Minister fueled the flames of intense negotiations within the oil sector unions over the upcoming union elections. In addition, we offer you a thorough analysis of the controversial new Education Law that the National Assembly passed last week.

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This week in the news there were a few diplomatic struggles, over Venezuela's supposed "interference" in Honduras, and over potential agression by the US from Colombia. We also published a range of interesting analysis articles, especially covering the workers' rights battles and the battles within those battles.

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It has been an interesting week, following the kidnapping of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, and the subsequent coup in Honduras. The Venezuelan government has worked hard with various North and South American alliance organizations to create a united rejection of the coup. We also celebrated Venezuelan's independence day today, had a gay pride march last Sunday and the government fined the Polar company for illegally distributing beer.

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