If you need an Iranian missile, a Chinese AK-47, a Philipina slave girl, or a kilo of Colombian cocaine, Venezuela is the place to shop for it.
I've written enough stories about Venezuela and Hugo Chavez' slow march towards totalitarianism. I'd been hoping to just let the issue rest for a while and focus on more pleasant parts of the world. Most people seem to have made up their minds about Chavez, either against him or for him despite all the evidence, so they probably aren't listening anyway. But when I start getting news digests from the services I subscribe to and they fill my email with story after story of things going sour in Venezuela, I can't ignore it because no matter how predictable or inevitable, it's news and deserves to at least be noted.…
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