Synova on Oct 30 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Hugo Chavez, Libertarianism, Synova's Page
The idea of “Going John Galt” makes me a little bit uncomfortable, to tell the truth. John Galt essentially said screw them all, and shut down knowing that a whole lot of people would be hurt. It was about the only way he could make his point and make it stick.
Maybe we could do this [...]
Lee on Sep 11 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
In solidarity with fellow Marxist anachronism Evo Morales in Bolivia, Hugo Chavez has ordered the US Ambassador out of Venezuela for being an agent of the “imperial aggressor, the genocidal U.S. empire.” He has also recalled the Venezuelan ambassador to Washington, in a complete break of formal diplomatic relations.
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Lee on Aug 31 2008 | Filed under: Art, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I’d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here’s a few rather random selections:
The HIV Epidemic:
Eurabia:
Slobodan Milosevic:
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Lee on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre)
One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That’s because industrial countries tend to be dominated by large supermarket chains, which can achieve enormous economies of scale in volume [...]
Lance on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
At least as long as Chavez comes armed with a fat wallet.
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Lance on May 01 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
I say it eventually ends in mass murder, but McQ has the latest intermediate step.
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ChrisB on Mar 03 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Hugo Chavez
McQ alerts us to this developing story in South America.
Colombia, apparently, struck at a narco-terrorist camp inside Ecuador after tracking FARC spokesman Paul Reyes and other leaders there. Reyes and 16 other terrorists were killed.
Chavez reacted by sending troops to the Venezuela/Colombia border:
Now you might ask why Chavez would involve himself in this conflict that [...]
Lee on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Michael Kraft takes a look back at candidate Hugo Chavez in 1998, being interviewed by Jorge Ramos for Univision. Jorge asks a series of what turned out to be extraordinarily prescient questions. In sequence Chavez denies he will shut down media companies, nationalize private industries, or criticize foreign leaders. He even pledges to facilitate and [...]
Lee on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
photo: Citizen Feathers
Feathers has an amusing photograph of Freddy Bernal, the MVR mayor of the Libertador Municipality in Caracas, doing his best George W. Bush impersonation in full cowboy getup. Bernal is one of Hugo Chavez’s most loyal henchmen in the city. He gained some infamy in his own right in 2002, when he was [...]
Lance on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Assuming he doesn’t double down on the oppression, will come as his oil company collapses.
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Lance on Jan 27 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
If Hugo inspires such love from the masses of South America, how do you explain this?
Colombia’s Uribe Approval Rating at Record 80%, Tiempo Reports
By Helen Murphy [...]
Lance on Jan 24 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
Following through on what was reported yesterday, Hugo Chavez continues to step up the pressure on food producers:
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.
The leftist Chavez this week created a state food distributor [...]
Lance on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
Haven’t we said this is the way things were heading once Hugo Chavez instituted price controls? Why yes we did.
From CNN via Pejman
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to take over farms or milk plants if owners refuse to sell their milk for domestic consumption and instead seek higher profits abroad or from cheese-makers.
With [...]
Lee on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Venezuelans not fond of Hugo Chavez’s new found affinity for narcoterrorism, are planning street marches in Caracas and Maracaibo to explicitly reject FARC and their murderous barbarism. This is an enormously heartening sign of genuinely worthwhile international solidarity, unlike the vile and dictatorial version Hugo likes to promote. Details in English from Kate at A [...]
Lee on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
You have to love the poll Common Sense & Wonder is running in its sidebar. The question is who will receive the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. C&W has some damningly convincing candidates for the Norwegian Nobel Committee too: Hugo Chavez, Cindy Sheehan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Noam Chomsky, Kim Jong-Il, Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro. Given the [...]
Lee on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The Navy is contemplating reviving the 4th Fleet, which was dissolved 60 years ago. The public rationale is rather vague, referring to the need to demonstrate interest in Latin America. Michael Goldfarb argues that Venezuelan plans to acquire Russian submarines are the real motive.
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Lee on Jan 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
JammieWearingFool hilariously points out that Hugo Chavez’s recent appeal to the world to refer to the FARC as “insurgents,” rather than terrorists, is off to a smashing start. It only took Reuters four paragraphs into the story before they began to comply.
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Lee on Jan 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Hugo Chavez breaks his vow to not seek president-for-life powers again. According to Chavez the new referendum will ask: “two questions: ‘Do you agree that Hugo Chavez should continue as president?’ and concurrently ‘Do you agree to a small constitutional amendment to allow indefinite reelection?’”
On the more bizarre Chavismo front, El Universal is apparently claiming [...]
Lance on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Hugo Chavez, Lance's Page
McQ points us to a new, if all too familiar, turn the ugly situation in Venezuela is taking:
Venezuelan Jews, long uneasy with the Chávez government’s alliances with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries that espouse anti-Israel views, are concerned that the government is sponsoring anti-Semitism in this hemisphere, a prominent journalist said Tuesday.
”The situation we [...]
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