Is it just me, or is Hugo Chavez reveling in acting the thug? enezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday he had ordered the nationalization of at least some of the operations of the U.S.-based food giant Cargill and threatened to do the same with the Caracas-based food maker Polar.Venezuela Pres...

I feel as if I have been 'blogging in delay' as of late, as much as I've been procrastinating about finishing up some posts and deleting draft posts that are no longer relevant. For example: A referendum on term limits has come and gone in Venezuela and I still haven't written a thing despite meanin...

VIVA LA CUCARACHA! Satire by Shawn Goodwin Pity the Venezuelan people. After suffering under the iron fist of an incompetent jackass for over a decade, they had their chance to throw him into the glue factory. Unfortunately for them, Hugo Chávez is the South American Energizer Bunny, and his reign ...

Besides everything that is going on with the economy, that is: • Hugo Chavez gets his referendum passed whereby he is potentially on the road to becoming another insane megalomaniac, two bit dictator. I'm just hoping oil prices drop and he starts getting on the last nerve of his people. Unfortunat...

-Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 has gone hip on us! In a public appearance, she officially unveiled her new web site . Actually it is a site for the royal family of England and has links to you tube, virtual tours and if the Royals are coming to your neck of the woods. I had a great deal of fun on it...

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Julie points to a Washington Post editorial indicating that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is trying out a time-tested way to buff up his popular support: rustling up hatred against the Jews. Then there is the assault on Venezuela's Jewish community -- which seems to have replaced George W. Bush a...

An article in yesterday's Washington Post, Jews in S. America Increasingly Uneasy, seemed to be an admirable attempt to expose a growing problem in South America. Unfortunately, on closer inspection, the article is a major disappointment. In Argentina -- which has the largest Jewish population in La...

After the shocking attacks on a synagogue in Venezuela last month, thug-in-chief Hugo Chavez suggested that the attackers might have been Jews themselves. So you have to wonder what kind of pressure was brought to bear on Chavez to get him to take action: Venezuela detains 11 suspects in synagogue a...

It’s hardly appealing: WHEN a group of Venezuelan women staged an impromtu protest recently by dropping their trousers in front of armed national guards, President Hugo Chavez cheekily observed that the women were obviously in need of more attention than they received from their opposition hus...