Telesur journalist Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda was detained Sunday by Colombian security forces on charges of "rebellion and terrorism." Muñoz was detained by the Colombian Administrative Department of Security (DAS) as he returned to Colombia, where he is a Telesur correspondent, from a visit to Venezuela.

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In Venezuela it is estimated that 1,200 business and factories have been abandoned by bosses and owners and there is a growing movement of factory occupations. Marie Trigona talks to a representative of Venezuela's Co-managed and Occupied Factories movement about its history and prospects.

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Last weekend the Co-managed and Occupied Factories’ Worker’s Revolutionary Front (Freteco) held its annual conference in Caracas.  They are a small but vocal and radical movement for worker’s control of Venezuelan industry.

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Coca-Cola-Femsa workers in Venezuela have seized the factories where they work and are preventing distribution trucks from leaving in a bid to force the company to pay out agreed-upon compensation to ex-workers.

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Nicolás Maduro Moros, recently named Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, comes to his post at a moment in which Venezuela is intensifying its foreign policy agenda and is deeply involved in a battle to win a seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

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During his visit to the US to attend the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was interviewed on Tavis Smiley TV show on PBS (also available as audio and video files on the show's site)

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During his visit to the US to attend the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez gave an interview to Time magazine in which he justified his attacks on George Bush and his foreign policy. He also explained how he started supporting the idea of a Third Way, but became convinced Capitalism is the road to hell and the way forward is socialism. 

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During his visit to the US to attend the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez gave two interviews in which he explained his attacks on George Bush and his foreign policy and stressed that he is not anti-American but rather anti-imperialist. The first interview was with Time magazine (The Sound & The Fury) and the second on Tavis Smiley TV show on PBS (also available as audio and video files on the show's site)