Venezuela recently outlawed the sale of video games and toy weapons. Violators will be subject to a prison sentence of up to five years. The new law continues the steady drumbeat of strange news coming out of Venezuela. Last month, the country nationalized a Hilton hotel on Margarita Island in what President Hugo Chavez characterized [...]
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Oliver Stone’s Rose-Colored Gaze at Chavez
The trailer to Oliver Stone’s latest film South of the Border starts off showing segments of overly-hyped news shows about Hugo Chavez on CNN and Fox. Chavez “is more dangerous to the U.S. than Fidel ever was,” a voice on CNN intones. A former Clinton official on the same show says that Chavez is supporting [...]
