Venezuela

Daniel Ortega's new best friend: Hugo Chavez
Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?
Free software, Big Oil and Venezuelan politics
Why is Hugo Chavez such a big open-source software fan?
Sanctity of life? Well, some of the time, anyway
Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of the president of Venezuela.
Thong warfare and the kidnapped beauty queen
A tour of socialist Venezuela, where 98 percent of the people are poor and the other 2 percent ogle metrosexual Tarzans and silicone-perfect blonds at a well-lubed fashion show.
FAIR cries foul
Spinsanity is wrong about reporting on the Venezuelan coup.
Bush's Latin diplomacy goes south
The White House is embarrassed after the State Department's Latin American specialist pointedly fails to condemn the Venezuela coup -- and the coup then collapses.
Hola, Domino's calling
The pizza chain is a huge hit among rich Venezuelans, who can't get enough "corte Chicago" pies delivered to their doors -- rapido.
Venezuela's president is playing with fire
By befriending U.S. enemies like Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez risks alienating his troubled country's biggest trading partner.
Venezuelans have the best sex
And they look good, too!
Exporting Indian beauty
Sexy subcontinentals are grabbing Miss World and Miss Universe crowns.

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