"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets. John Robb says “might be an interesting test of the…
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…
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…
Chavez is abandoning his socialist agenda “for now,” granting amnesty to right-wing coup plotters, replacing left-wingers in his cabinet, and signaling he wants to build alliances with the bourgeoisie. New Statesman opines the recent defeat of socialism at the Venezuela…
[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…