July 9, 2008
Venezuelan television network Televen has been fined by the government for airing episodes of The Simpsons. You might remember that a couple of months back Maegan told us that Televen was told by the Venezuelan TV regulator that they had to air The Simpsons later in the day so that children wouldn't...
go to article »June 25, 2008
June 4, 2008
Wow, that's saying a lot, because the Spanish hate them some Dubya. According to a recent poll:Spaniards dislike Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez most among world leaders, including U.S. President George W. Bush, a poll indicated. The survey of 2,500 Spaniards in 2007 found the leftist Chavez ranks...
go to article »May 21, 2008
Apparently learning nothing from Colombia entering Ecuador's territory to go after the FARC, or maybe taking a page from that incident and the diplomatic crisis it sparked, there are allegations that the U.S. violated Venezuela's airspace. US officials admitted a naval plane on a counter-narcotics m...
go to article »May 13, 2008
Yesterday Hugo Chavez accused Colombia (and the U.S.) of provoking a war by pushing Interpol to back up the position that Venezuela's government has supported the FARC."El gobierno de Colombia es capaz, así lo digo, es capaz de provocar una guerra con Venezuela para tratar de justificar la interven...
go to article »April 30, 2008
Question now is will Chavez or other OPEC countries do the same??? Could be bad news for the US dollar in the long term.-DarrylOfficial says Iran has stopped using US dollar for oil deals 2 hours ago TEHRAN, Iran — Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has stopped conducting oil transactions in U...
go to article »April 29, 2008
Bill Richardson on his meeting with Hugo ChavezApril 28, 2008CNN Wolf Blitzer...
go to article »April 28, 2008
On Saturday, the Latino U.S. President that wasn't, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, met with U.S. Latin American enemy #2 (Cuba is still #1), Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Richardson was lending his support in hostage negotiations with the FARC, especially trying to secure the release of 3...
go to article »April 17, 2008
Spot the offense. Is it the desaparecidos comment? That fact that Eva Peron wasn't mentioned but Madonna was? Maybe it's the idea that Argentina and other Latin American nations have a history of less than democratic governments? One Argentine legislator wants the episode banned, following in the f...
go to article »April 1, 2008
"Haitians have no political power."--Tim Russert | MSNBC (03/29/2008)Now that seems like a harmless assessment, but if you look closer it makes you wonder what it would take for Haitians to have this vaunted "political power." Could it be that they are poor and black? Is that their sin? So I sat dow...
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