From the BBC…
President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree to nationalise Venezuela’s biggest steelmaker, Ternium-Sidor. Argentina’s Techint, which owns 60% of it, has been given until the end of June to hand it over.
In the past two years the Venezuelan state has taken over foreign-controlled companies including cement, telecoms, oil, gas and electricity firms.
President Chavez [...]

From Socialist Worker…
George Bush waded into the growing inter-governmental crisis in Latin America earlier this week by expressing the US’s unqualified support for the Colombian president Alvaro Uribe.
The Colombian army last Saturday attacked and killed a group of Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrillas camped in Ecuador. One of those killed was Raul [...]

Mike Gonzales on Venezuela…

Chris Harman reflects on Chavez’s recent swing to the left. Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to read the report…