Earlier this week Alberto posted a story on the upcoming primaries in Venezuela. You can gather the people of that country are hoping for change in their next presidential election. I believe many of us can sympathize with them. For over three years some of us have made the comparisons between Obama and Hugo Chavez. [...]

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But Chavez is not happy with what he perceives as the "horrible repression" of the wonderful protesters ... By whom I'm not sure, because all the abuse and repression appears to be coming down on the heads of innocent New Yorkers by the protes--- squatters (and I mean that literally, folks). This from the same [...]

VIENNA -- Iran was praised and Israel criticized Wednesday at a 151-nation meeting, with Cuba and Venezuela defending Tehran's right to run a nuclear program and Syria saying the Jewish state's undeclared nuclear arsenal is a threat to world peace.
The two Latin American nations are among Tehran's greatest supporters and Washington's strongest detractors, depicting it [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's government is providing support to the Venezuelan convict known as Carlos the Jackal in a French prison, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday.
Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is serving a life sentence for the 1975 murders of two French secret agents and an alleged informer. He gained notoriety [...]

Cute as a monkey's butt, I tell ya! But where are Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Oliver Stone, and Michael Moore?
CARACAS, Venezuela - Supporters of President Hugo Chavez shaved their heads in solidarity with their leader's struggle against cancer on Sunday as hundreds prayed and sang at a televised event.
Barbers shaved off the hair of several [...]

Yep, him ...
(CNBC) - OPEC's proven crude oil reserves rose 12.1 percent in 2010 to 1.19 trillion barrels led by Venezuela, which has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the group's largest reserves holder, OPEC said in its Annual Statistical Bulletin.
The latest figures are unlikely to quell skepticism about reserves estimates from the Organization of the Petroleum [...]

You know, I distinctly recall hearing, for years, those who support liberal/leftist/democrat politicians, like Obama, griping about how the U.S. has always done business with and/or catered to the world's dictators, and that was/is the core of our problems around the world. But with Obama he's sorta kinda like Cyrus from that 1970s cult movie [...]

Somehow I doubt Sean Penn would like having his power rationed. But it's good enough for Venezuela if Chavez says so. So, why everybody gotta be hatin' on the big man, huh?
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela will soon begin rationing electricity in several regions because of recurring power outages, the country's energy minister said Wednesday.
Ali Rodriguez [...]

Did he share it with those journalists and reporters he has locked-up in his jail?
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Hugo Chavez is getting a journalism award in Argentina.
The Venezuelan leader regularly threatens opposition media, but the University of La Plata is giving him an award for what it describes as his work giving people without a [...]

Perhaps Jabba The Hutt should write a diet book ... No! He should do an exercise video. Jane Fonda could produce and direct it.
CARACAS, Venezuela— President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelans on Sunday to cut their calories to avoid obesity -- the latest lifestyle recommendation by the self-proclaimed socialist crusader.
Chavez has lobbied in recent weeks against [...]

He's really on some fun drugs, isn't he?
CARACAS - Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.
"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived [...]

After all, aren't they all pretty much fake boobs in Hollywood? Priorities ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez is known to have expressed little patience for imported leisure pursuits like golf or Scotch whisky tippling. Now he has reserved some ire for another practice that is beloved in Venezuela: breast augmentation surgery.
Blame for the [...]

Well, he wanted to be just like his idol castro ...
It’s been two weeks, and Villca Fernández has not had a thing to eat.
Fernández, who is 28, is one of about 16 college students and professors in Venezuela who is on a hunger strike – the latest of several hunger strikes in the South [...]

From Zelaya in Honduras, to Mubarak in Egypt, and now Qaddaffi in Libya, Obama seems to have selective dictator appreciation. But the most striking and stark dictator discrimination Obama apparently has is that of Cuba's castro and "Mini-Me" Chavez in Venezuela. Those two cats are A-OK to Barry ...
When Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez flew to Tripoli [...]

Jimmy Carter: Unrest in Egypt 'earth-shaking'
PLAINS, Ga. - Former President Jimmy Carter, who brokered a peace accord between Israel and Egypt in 1978, on Sunday called the political unrest and rioting in Egypt earth-shaking and said that President Hosni Mubarak probably will have to step down.
Carter told a Sunday school class that he teaches [...]

Move to exploit 'unused' land in capital rattles Venezuela's middle class, as troops also take over 'unproductive' farms ...
Hugo Chávez has sent out troops to take over farms and urged the poor to occupy "unused" land in wealthy areas of Caracas, prompting a wave of squats that is rattling Venezuela's middle class.
The move by Venezuela's [...]

Venezuela is claiming it has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia ...
Venezuela has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world leader in oil reserves with certified deposits leaping to 297 billion barrels at the end of 2010, President Hugo Chavez's government said Saturday.
Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters that the new reserves, which pushed the total [...]

I've been following Michael Totten since the Iraq War. He is right up there with Michael Yon in "honest-to-god" full-press balls to the wall war correspondence journalism. Better yet, both have been pretty much completely on their own in funding their journeys through our two war theaters over the last ten years, unlike the pampered [...]

I'm surprised he hasn't taken it already ...
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended plans for a law that would impose broadcast-type regulations on the Internet, saying Sunday that his government should protect citizens against online crimes.
Chavez's congressional allies are considering extending the "Social Responsibility Law" for broadcast media to the Internet, banning [...]