Hey Kep,
Had you seen this yet?

Venezuela's science and technology minister has resigned after his brother became embroiled in a corruption scandal involving several local banks.

Jesse Chacon's brother Arne, who is the president of Banco Real, was arrested as part of an investigation into banking irregularities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8399268.stm

I really do like the idea, though in the current state of affairs I think that around 80% of option B would end up in the hands of plastic surgeons for new noses and boobs.

If you put 10.507778,-66.116528 into google maps that's Freddy Bernal's beach property, or at least it was in Semana Santa 2008 when I was swimming in that pool, unless he's sold it and has a better one now. Many of my extended in-law family work for the alcaldia Libertador. Not much but it's a start. I'd love to see where what the houses are like that the Chavez family are living in in Barinas.

So what happens to Mel Zelaya now? Will he live the the Brazilian Embassy for the rest of his life? Or are they gonna put him and his hat in jail?

Oh well, I'm sure next time you'll probably get some 'violence is acceptable for those I don't agree with' rhetoric.

I'm a little cut that I'm not allowed to discuss Chavez's best international friends and their countries failures to compare to the failed mess here, but it's perfectly OK to bring up Chavez's enemies in defense of any criticism made to the big man and his cronies say or do even if it's at ends with anything they've said or done previously.

Oh well, that's socialism for you, one set of rules for the majority and whatever they damn well please for themselves.

What I'd like to know is how any of this is relevant to Carlos the Jackal.

No problem whatsoever! Turn on El Ocho this morning and all they want to talk about is Obama's delays in closing Guantanamo. That should keep them busy for a day or two, then I suppose its back to Uribe.

It must be absolutely awesome to not be accountable for absolutely anything that's your job to take care of. So the moral of the story is that in Venezuela numbers now do in fact lie!

I suppose if Chavez really wanted to fuck up Uribe he could start producing those goods here and improve the transit system.

We can all have our dreams.

If war does break out, who does Chavez have on his side? Do you think his group of friends in Gaddafi, Mugabe, Castro, Ahmadinejad, Correa, Morales et al. would truly come to help him out?

I'm leaving Lula out on purpose because he's actually got some real work to take care of with the Olympics and World Cup coming up.

I don't live in Galipan yet, but that would be nice.

I'm pretty sure noone is allowed to buy land up there anymore, unless of course you have some serious cash and connections.

At least I'd be able to get away from the car alarms and horns for a while if I was on the La Guaira side. Last time I went camping in the Avila we could still hear the alarms and honking and reggeton.

This NED fund stuff is starting to sound attractive...