The final results of the Venezuelan elections are now out. The Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has won about 80% of all local councils and 17 out of the 22 governors that were up for election. However the loss of Miranda, Carabobo and the Metropolitan District of Caracas, all of them extremely important from the point of view of politics, economy and population, and the fact that the PSUV did not win Zulia is a serious warning for the revolution, which has to be added to the defeat of the constitutional reform referendum.

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The Hands off Venezuela campaign has learnt news of the killing of 3 leading trade unionists in Aragua, Venezuela, on November 27th. We would like to condemn this brutal killing in the strongest terms.

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Actions are intensifying in support of the five Colombian cleaners dismissed by cleaning company Amey PLC at the government's National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Middlesex, for criticizing management practices in a leaflet.

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Regional elections held in Venezuela on November 23^rd, 2008 have been portrayed in the U.S. media as a defeat for the government of President Hugo Chávez, when in fact the results strongly favor his party, the PSUV. The vast majority of state governorships and mayoralties, including those in many strategic parts of the country such as the Orinoco Oil Belt, remain under pro-government leadership.

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First, London buses were run on cheap Venezuelan fuel. Then, former mayor of London Ken Livingstone began advising authorities in Caracas on traffic problems. Now, the latest link between the two areas appears to be in education.

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We publish here a letter by Darrall Cozens of the National Steering Committee of HOV Britain. The letter was sent to The Guardian newspaper in response to a biased article published just before the elections on Sunday.

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On November 12th and 13th, 2008, la Société Bolivarienne du Québec/Hands Off Venezuela (SBQ/HOV), a revolutionary Latin American solidarity group in Montreal, invited Cynthia Cisneros Fajardo from Bolivia to speak about the revolutionary process that is unfolding in Bolivia. Cynthia Cisneros Fajardo is a Bolivian journalist and activist who has taken part in extensive community discussions on Bolivia's newly proposed constitution. (Report also in French and Spanish)

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