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Perhaps you remember that, in November 2005, we were part of a small group of people who were invited to brief former Secretary Tom Shannon, about the political situation in our respective countries. I do remember, very vividly, your warnings about Lula during that particular meeting. With the passing of time, I must say how pleasantly surprised I am with the turn of perception vis-a-vis Hugo Chavez.

So a friendly source in Venezuela got privy of a couple of draft documents that set rather interesting conditions, for the purchase, from Philpot Dairy Products Limited, of some 60,000 metric tonnes of powdered milk to PDVAL, a subsidiary of PDVSA.

It's been a long time coming, but it appears that those who have made a killing out of spreading propaganda about Hugo Chavez in Washington DC, have joined the unemployed.

Some blacks are more equal than others... The caveat: the deadline for nominations was February 1, meaning Obama was nominated after being in office for just 11 days.

So the Telegraph paid 110,000 Sterling to a mole that leaked all the juicy information about MP's expenses in Westminster. And I question myself: what is the combined amount of funds that victims of Chavez have taken out of Venezuela in the past 5 decades?

The BBC has produced what it calls a "Series offering a definitive account of what happened to create the greatest financial crisis for eighty years", entitled The Love of Money. The series is remarkable in that it provides a window into the thinking of the people that were/are in the driving seat, and whose decisions for better or worse brought us to the current mess.

It appears that someone else has got Calvin Tucker's number.