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Message to Hugo Chavez: When you lose NPR …

A stunning admission from NPR: "Economic Woes Threaten Chavez's Socialist Vision". Or in plain English, Venezuela is a wreck: Venezuela's economy is in trouble despite the country's huge oil reserves….

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Spotlight on Venezuela

Spotlight on Venezuela

As our current Administration continues to guide us down the path toward full-blown socialism, it is worth keeping tabs on President Obama’s comrade Hugo Chavez, and the slow-motion destruction…

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Al Qaeda’s Submarines

Al Qaeda has access to drug smuggling submarines bound for the US. From Reuters: Colombian guerrillas have entered into “an unholy alliance” with Islamic extremists who are helping the Marxist…

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Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

As I noted last week, Hugo Chavez seized yet another chunk of Venezuela's oil industry this weekend, since it is apparently much more economical for the government to steal private…

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Venezuela – Slouching Toward Communism

Venezuela has become today’s text-book example of what happens to a nation when it is forced to succumb to large-scale economic nationalization. President Hugo Chavez is tightening state control over…

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Out in the cold again *UPDATED*

The Baron and Bill Jempty have done a good job of covering the natural gas crisis in Europe precipitated by the Russians in an attempt to recapture the bullying power…

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Disaster looms in Venezuela

Hugo Chavez has a big problem — his government is very good at confiscating wealth from the private sector, but it has been rather inept at growing his nation's economy or creating sustainable sources of income apart from crude oil. And like most authoritarian regimes, his government is infested with cronyism and incompetence.

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Chavez LOSES Venezuela referendum

Earlier reports, linked at Gateway Pundit, predicted a Chavez victory, but each succeeding one sounded less and less sure. The actual results were probably a huge landslide against – enough to convince Chavez and his cronies that claiming victory would result in a popular coup.

Special credit should go to Globovision (in Spanish), which kept the process in the daylight.

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Guevara Memorial in Venezuela destroyed

The shiny new glass plate monument to Che Guevara unveiled recently in Venezuela has been shot and shattered in shining example of “performance art,” reports Ian James for the Associated…

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To make a Socialist omelet, you have to break some eggheads

Tear gas and military force is needed, sometimes, while seizing the equipment of opposition media, in order to form a more perfect socialist republic, you see. Hugo Chavez sends in…

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