Topics in this issue:
• Chávez’s new term
• Nationalization plans
• Oil companies

Peru narrowly dodged a bullet on June 4 when centrist Alan Garcia defeated Ollanta Humala, a radical anti-U.S. demagogue, by an uncomfortably narrow margin. Humala was threatening to pull Peru back from the global economy, install a more authoritarian regime and ally himself with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

These works were drawn from the contemporary art section in Banco Mercantil's extensive art collection in Caracas. The work of Venezuelan artists in this exhibit highlight dialogues with the past and present, reflecting a break from kinetic art and the idea of modernity as a concept in crisis.

Speaking at the 2002 Washington Conference on the Americas, First Deputy Managing Director at International Monetary Fund, Anne Krueger, discuses the economic future of the Americas. Krueger addresses the economic "slow down" in the Americas and elaborates on the crisis in Argentina.

This exhibition catalogue examines the work of three Venezuelan artists who create paintings and mixed-medium assemblages. The catalogue includes interviews with Axel Stein.

This exhibition catalogue of Venezuelan photographer J. J. Castro features texts by Efrain Subero and Pedro Pablo Bornola.

This exhibition catalogue surveys the oeuvre of the Venezuelan painter from 1937 to 1974.