An interesting take on President Hugo Chavez’s recent attempt to concretize his stranglehold on the Venezuelan people, as written by the “grey lady’s” very own Roger Cohen.
President Hugo Chávez has narrowly lost his latest attempt to push forward a revolutionary socialist agenda. His oil-rich country, still bent on humbling the United States, is an instructive place from which to view the world, so here are eight rules of modern political life as seen from Venezuela: