Venezuelan dictator-wannabe and admitted daily coca-chewer hugo chavez, says some of his country’s farmers are traitors. Why? Because they sell products overseas to make money. CNN reports that he threatened to take over farms if the farmers don’t sell everything domestically. “In that case the farm must be expropriated,” Chavez said, adding that the government [...]
Latin America
The Miami Herald reports on a four-hour speech made by Venezuelan dictator-wannabe hugo chavez. A couple of paragraphs in particular are most interesting. ”I chew coca every day in the morning . . . and look how I am,” he is seen saying on a video of the speech, as he shows his biceps to [...]
hugo chavez took a trip to Cuba, sat down with fidel castro to talk about integrating their countries, then moved on to running an oil summit. The Associated Press has the story, but strangely fails to mention any demonstrations by anti-big-oil anti-globalists. Oh, well. Chavez, who wants to use Venezuela’s vast oil reserves to help [...]
Bombing attacks in Argentina weren’t merely to kill Jews. We’ve written many stories here about Iran’s inroads into the Americas – particularly in Venezuela and somewhat in Cuba. We’ve pointed out that Iranian missiles have the range to hit large parts of the US if they were to build bases in those countries. Now Investors [...]
Now officially dictators I was listening to NPR this morning (hey, they play classical music on Sunday morning), and I was shocked to hear something in a report on Mitt Romney’s campaign appearance in Miami. The reporter said that Romney was asked how he would deal with dictators in Latin America, dictators such as fidel [...]