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Venezuelan historian Manuel Caballero maintained that it was a mistake to try and pigeonhole Hugo Chavez within the traditional and descriptive ideological limits of socialism, conservatism, capitalism, communism, etc., claiming “Hugo Chávez no es comunista, ni socialista, ni musulmán, como dijo él alguna vez. Pero es todo eso a la vez si le garantizan que puede quedarse toda la vida en el poder. Chávez es chavista y lo que él adora de Fidel Castro no son las cosas que Fidel hizo o dejó de hacer en Cuba, sino su casi medio siglo en el poder.”

A little over a month after the U.S government executed Operation Southern Spear, snatching Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores and forcing the remaining chavista criminal bosses to obey and follow further instructions from Washington, Venezuela's democratic future remains uncertain. The question of elections has been met with evasive answers from nearly all U.S. officials involved. It is useful however to keep tabs on what has happened in some fronts since January 3rd, a flurry of activity in criminal investigations involving chavismo facilitators being one of the most important.

Seeing an inordinate amount of suspicious traffic activity from China, this site implemented a country wide block to "visitors" connecting from Chinese IP addresses. Our Chinese "readers" did not like the measure, which lasted less than 36 hours, and instructed their Singaporean, Brazilian, Vietnamese, Iraqi and Argentinean friends to ping the site thousands of times in an effort to overwhelm the server and to knock infodio.com offline. Some got through, however we still wish good luck to the enemies of information flow.