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...long are we going to allow a person ... to come into our own house and to say there's a dictatorship here?' HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, announcing that he will expel visiting foreigners who publicly criticize his government...
Vague and undefined as Chavez's model of socialism may be, he wants everyone to sign up. He said on Sunday that 90% of Venezuelans should support his government, even though nearly 40% voted against him in presidential elections in December. His government had been fond of saying that it wishes Venezuela had a respectable opposition, rather than the current mishmash of defeated parties lacking proposals. Even that wishful democratic stance may be gone now. On Monday, Chavez acknowledged that his government wants to ideologize Venezuelan society in order to phase out an "imperialist" way of thinking imposed...
François Bertrand, head sommelier at the elegant French restaurant Le Gavroche in London, jokes that he agreed to stock 1796 aged rum two years ago because of "the beautiful young Venezuelan marketing rep." But after tasting it, he decided to fool some of his patrons and pour them the rum instead of Cognac. "The cheap nightclub image of rum that had always put them off was changed immediately," says Bertrand...
...Spain - roughly double the U.S. price. (In Russia and Norway, one kilogram can fetch up to $120,000.) Divided into street-sized amounts, a kilogram can earn five times those figures. Since moving in on Europe in the mid-'90s, the cartels - overwhelmingly Colombian, but also Venezuelan and Mexican - have hugely ramped up operations...
...want to see you back in uniform. That's an order.' HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, urging ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro to bring back the fatigues El Comandante was once known for. Castro, who has not appeared in public in 10 months, has only been seen in recent photos wearing tracksuits...