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Exxon has won a court decision which freezes $12bn in assets of the nationalized Venezuela Oil company in a dispute over Exxon’s investment of $750 million. Bonds of the oil company dropped in response, and now only fetch 66.75 cents on the dollar, which, I think, makes them junk bonds. The Guardian reports on collusion between Colombia’s Farc and the Venezuela military, saying Venezuela is being used as the primary shipping point of Columbian cocaine out of South America. Given the amounts of money involved, it would seem naive or deliberately evasive to pretend such corruption couldn’t exist. No source I spoke to accused [...] [On Saturday, Chavez] urged Venezuelans to see vote as a referendum on him.”It’s black and white — a vote against the reform is a vote against Chavez,” he said in a state television interview. Reading leftie listservs and blogs today shows some sense of unreality among Chavistas, some of whom are determined to make this [...] This from Larry Johnson, ex-CIA, terrorism expert, and political progressive (check his blogroll) As the official bubble burster let me state for the record, this is patent nonsense. State Department officers do not write memos to Hayden. Particularly mid-level Foreign Service Officers. A CIA officer under diplomatic cover sends his communications to headquarters via an [...] Red Squirrel details the enormous tension and conflict in Venezuela now, with the referendum vote on Saturday. Things are getting extremely polarized, with fighting in the streets, murder, and probable CIA intervention. Venezuelan counterintelligence just released a document they say is a CIA memo outlining destabilization plans. Imagine the pressure-cooker atmosphere the release of the [...] Venezuelan student leader Stalin González (his real name, his parents are leftists) opposes Chavez on Marxist terms. His been shot at, gotten death threats, and is central in student opposition to the upcoming referendum in Venezuela which, if it passes, would rescind term limits for Chavez and make the central bank part of the government [...] This appears to be because Chavez wants to take control of the central bank and is leaning on it to not make loans. While I applaud much of what Chavez has done, this is just dumb. Unless he wants hyperinflation. Meanwhile, in the bizarro world of Wall Street, this bad news is being looked [...] From the Just Foreign Policy listserv Hours after a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government in Venezuela in 2002, the International Monetary Fund declared its readiness to work with the coup government. How was this decision reached? What did they know, and when did they know it? Members of Congress are trying to find [...] As evidence, [the Venezuelan Communications Minister] cited Globovision showing footage of an assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981 accompanied by the song “This Does Not Stop Here,” sung by Ruben Blades. “The conclusion of the specialists … is that (in this segment) they are inciting the assassination of the president of Venezuela,” [...] |  | ||||
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