21.   Venezuelan authorities agreed in August to accept some Cuban refugees as long as they had family waiting for them here.

22.   Venezuelan authorities are collecting information on the bank accounts, telephone numbers, license plates, passports, and movements of the suspected ETA members.

23.   Venezuelan authorities had been searching for Van Rooij since November after being notified by the Netherlands that he had fled to the South American country.

24.   Venezuelan authorities hope the heavily guarded settlement will help tame and secure Apure state, where soldiers chase Colombian guerrillas and drug traffickers through sparsely populated forest.

25.   Venezuelan authorities said Monday that eight hostages who were aboard a hijacked airplane that ended up in Colombia would soon be released.

26.   Venezuelan authorities, aided by Peruvian police, had been tracking her for the past month.

27.   Venezuelan authorities have denounced an alleged alliance between Colombian rebels and Venezuelan criminals in the border region.

28.   Venezuelan authorities said the women were each shot at least four times, while Freitas was hit six times.

29.   Venezuelan authorities said Wahib Hassan Moghnie and Ali Aref Makki were detained last week because they lacked visas.

30.   The US embassy in Caracas has complained about at least four incidents in which Venezuelan authorities threatened or harassed diplomats or American citizens, deputy spokesman Philip Reeker said.