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Venezuela's finance minister comes out of FONDEN closet
For some time Hugo Chavez, his officials and assorted apologists have maintained that FONDEN, meant to be a rainy day/development fund of sorts, had $57 billion. Today the truth has been revealed: Ali Rodriguez, Minister of Finance, has said that the fund had "accumulated" $57.8 billion worth since 2005, of which $44.5 billion have been 'invested."
Hugo Chavez's credibility tally...
So Hugo Chavez latest is that he added Oliver Stone to the list of useful idiots that cheer for him. Who do we have on our side (whereby we refers to the camp of rule of law and democracy-supporting people)? Let's keep a tally of the score, shall we? We have:
No Mas Chavez? Think again...
A group of Colombians are meant to be behind the organization of a worldwide protest against Chavez, aptly named "No Mas Chav
Noam Chomsky parrots Hugo Chavez
Spanish daily El Pais reports that Noam Chomsky was in Caracas to see how "Chavez is making another world possible." That's right.
Does The Guardian know about Calvin Tucker?
Got to face it, the struggle to have The Guardian admit that is has printed false information about me, and Angie Bray, has been unfruitful.
Hugo Chavez freezes ties with Colombia for the third time over FARC
The first time Hugo Chavez froze relations with Venezuela's second largest commercial partner (Colombia that is, on January 2005), it was due to the capture of one of FARC's leaders Rodrigo Granda, while attending in Caracas one the Bolivarian get-togethers organized by the Venezuelan regime. Granda, a wanted criminal involved in planning and assassinating Cecilia Cubas, daughter of former Paraguayan President Raúl Cubas, had been living in Venezuela and was given citizenship by the Chavez administration.
Smartmatic does the Philippines
One of the reasons I have stopped blogging regularly about Venezuela is that everything that I felt I needed to expose I have already.