Newsflash: Hugo Chávez vows never to recognize any government in Honduras Libya other than Zelaya’s Gaddafi’s. Oh…right… The pathos, the isolation, the sheer ranting lunacy is really reaching...
Turns out transporting 211,000 kg. of gold to Caracas isn’t exactly straightforward. The basic problem is insurance. Felix Salmon has the skinny: I have no idea how many...
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching...
AVN: “Obama demands Gaddafi’s resignation as a condition to stopping the blood-bath in Libya.” TeleSUR: “Cameron affirms that aggression against the Libyan people was ‘necessary'” Aporrea: “NATO using sonic...
Showcasing once more his impecable sense of timing, Hugo Chávez picked Sunday evening for…a stirring denunciation of the Gaddafi Regime’s foes. And that, my friend, is how the...
The quote is from everyone’s favorite cantankerous physician, Dr. House. I thought about it today when reading that, in the next few days, Hugo Chávez will return to...
This profile of Rafael Ramírez and PDVSA in The Guardian is pretty interesting. When was the last time you read a glowing portrait of a chavista minister in...
Better… UPDATE: Replaced clip with longer clip of the same speech. Snark after the jump…
The AP’s roundup on the latest batch of VTV Wiretap broadcasts is well worth a read. The highlight? Mario Silva’s hilarious line of defense. The recordings, it turns out,...
OK, y’all will say I’m biased against UNT, but seriously, this is Pablo Pérez’s campaign launch? I’m sorry, but that’s very weak. It’s not just that the visuals,...
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