"Accident"
<pinky to lips, Dr. Evil style>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110130/...lyZWV4cGxvc2lvMARACAY, Venezuela – A fire and a series of explosions tore through a military arms depot Sunday, killing one person and leading authorities to evacuate thousands of people.
About 10,000 residents fled their homes in areas up to several miles (kilometers) from the site as the burning ammunition produced powerful blasts, officials said.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
Might have actually been an accident.Originally Posted by AdamG
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately be explained by stupidity... or incompetence.
Chavez got lucky post-9/11 with the War on Terrorism, the retired covert action / dirty tricks / Iran-Contra types were in demand elsewhere. Heck, I even read in the NYT last month that Dewey Clarridge is still running around, said he was throwing dirt on the Karzai’s.
Venezuela: violence and politics
A short article by an ICG expert:http://www.opendemocracy.net/silke-p...e-and-politics
I have read about the scale of violence and the police being brutal, but the details are new to me and alarming. So taking one paragraph:This insight speaks volumes:The former interior and justice minister Jesse Chacón recently claimed the government had inherited the problem from former administrations. Fair enough: when Hugo Chávez took over the presidency in 1999, homicide rates had already tripled over the previous decade. But what Chacón did not mention is that they almost quadrupled in the following twelve years, from 4,550 in 1998 to 17,600 in 2010.The daily killings in Venezuelan cities so far do not seem to have significantly affected President Chávez’s popularity.
davidbfpo
Extraordinary!The daily killings in Venezuelan cities so far do not seem to have significantly affected President Chávez’s popularity.
What could be the reason?
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