Chavez continues his march to dictatorship...

[Stiofán]

...or how to create socialism, 101.

"The privatization of oil in Venezuela has come to an end," he said on his weekday radio show, "Hello, President." "This marks the true nationalization of oil in Venezuela."

Today Chavez announced his takeover of the last of the countries private oil projects.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/26/D8NHO3UO0.html

[ethics]

Funny how both Hitler and Stalin were accused of the same behavior:

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he believes enemies including the CIA are out to kill him, and called U.S. diplomat John Negroponte a "professional killer."

Chavez said Venezuelan officials have intelligence that associates of jailed Cuban anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles also are involved in plotting to assassinate him.

He said the death plot idea has "gained weight" due to various factors, including the recent appointment of Negroponte, the former director of national intelligence, as deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

"Who did they swear in ... there at the White House as deputy secretary of state? A professional killer: John Negroponte," Chavez said.

Chavez did not elaborate, but his government has previously accused Negroponte of playing a key role in the Contra war against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua when he served as ambassador to Honduras — a haven for clandestine Contra bases — from 1981 to 1985.


Enemies to the left of me! Enemies to the right of me! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_chavez;_ylt=AnWll2_sWK3sdkDWDjJPYOpn.3QA)

[Stiofán]

A favorite tactic of a tyrant, to rally the masses against a imagined outside threat, so they won't focus on how miserable their squalid lives are.