31.   Venezuelan authorities are counting on IMF backing for their reforms to lure foreign investment.

32.   Venezuelan authorities on Monday declared Zulia province an epidemic zone following a rapid expansion of equine encephalitis and dengue fever.

33.   Venezuelan authorities Friday released Hildalgo Valero, an army colonel forced into retirement by President Hugo Chavez arrested for organizing a protest by military retirees.

34.   Venezuelan authorities told a press conference they captured Perafan thanks to intelligence provided by colleagues in Colombia.

35.   Just hours before, Venezuelan authorities had ordered him sent to jail on charges of rebellion.

36.   Perafan was captured by Venezuelan authorities at a home in the border city of San Cristobal.

37.   She left Khartoum separately on Sunday and the Venezuelan authorities said Thursday she was in Venezuela.