Venezuela, a country with massive oil reserves, now has to import oil due to its socialist economic policies.

Behold the wonders of socialism!

Don't you wish you could live there? You could always stay at Sean Penn's house.

Behold the wonders of socialism!
Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of President Hugo Chavez's campaign to stem shortages ( Read more... )

Have they started chanting "Sieg Heil!" down there yet?
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez called for radical changes to Venezuela's constitution Wednesday night, proposing reforms that would eliminate current limits on his re-election and extend presidential terms.

Sounds like a new deal for Venezuelans!

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This happens every time some dictator implements socialism.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Meat cuts vanished from Venezuelan supermarkets this week, leaving only unsavory bits like chicken feet, while costly artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar, and many staples sell far above government-fixed prices.
Chavez is proceeding apace to ruin ( Read more... )

Hero of the left.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree, a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.
Things just keep getting more and more like the 1930s. All we need now are some tariffs and a Democrat "president for ( Read more... )

Is never pretty, part II.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called the U.S. secretary of state "my little girl" and told Washington to "go to hell" after it questioned his plan to seek special powers to legislate by decree.
They say you can tell a lot about a man by the friends he keeps. I say you can also tell a lot ( Read more... )

A company in Venezuela purchased a company called Sequoia. Sequoia makes evoting machines.

Venezuelans will be "monitoring" those machines and the elections served by those machines.

Those machines have a known security flaw where anyone who pushes a big, yellow button can vote as many times as they wish without triggering any sort of alarm or ( Read more... )