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...Whether they show him on video, on the radio, on the phone, it's more of the same. He's a political corpse.' NINOSKA PEREZ, a member of the anti-Castro Cuban Liberty Council, on Fidel Castro's first live speech since 2006, called in to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's TV show...
...Morality notwithstanding, the headlines of the past month remind us that the land of the Liberator still knows plenty of shady deals after all these years. In early August, a little-known Venezuelan businessman, Guido Antonini Wilson, was caught carrying a briefcase with nearly $800,000 in cash on a private flight from Caracas to Buenos Aires. The flight was chartered by the Argentine state oil company, and officials from that firm and from the Venezuelan state oil company had been on board. The incident has been an embarrassment in Buenos Aires, where the government was already under fire...
...wacky bits kept coming. Shortly after the devastating earthquake that leveled the Peruvian city of Pisco, cans of tuna bearing pictures of Chavez and former leftist Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala were handed out as relief aid. The Venezuelan government said it had no idea how the cans got there; state television even interviewed a pro-Chavez artist who bizarrely suggested that the tuna cans were, in fact, a "racist" statement inciting support for the invasion of Iraq. That was too much for the show's moderator, who replied that they were actually no more than tuna cans. Still, this...
...Venezuelan officials, meanwhile, continued their long-standing campaign against "imperialist" media by claiming that the briefcase episode had been embellished to make Caracas look bad, and that "manipulation" by the media was behind the tuna can episode. Then, responding to a critical editorial, the communication ministry devoted an entire press release to calling the New York Times "nothing more than of one the media arms of the Bush government." Lastly, on his own Sunday talk show, Chavez criticized a correspondent from the British newspaper The Guardian for asking a question about term limits. Instead of answering his question, the President...
...Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wants to help citizens improve their metabolism and efficiency, so on Jan. 1, 2008, he plans to move clocks ahead 30 minutes. During a seven-hour radio address, Chávez said that "the human brain is conditioned by sunlight" and Technology Minister Hector Navarro noted that more daylight hours would benefit "all Venezuelans in their jobs and studies...