Foreign Dispatches

Shocker: Hugo Chavez is a Crook!

Who would ever have believed that our sainted Leader of the Bolivarian revolution(©) was just another thief bent on maximizing state power to his own ends? And yet here is the Guardian (of all papers) indicating as much.

[Wilmer] Azuaje has blown the whistle on what he claims is a kleptocratic dynasty in Barinas where farms, businesses, banks and government contracts have been pocketed by the president's parents and five brothers.

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is Run by Idiots

It's one thing to put up pay walls for your news offerings, as Rupert Murdoch is foolishly intent on doing with his British properties, but it's another level of stupidity altogether to also seek to ban linking to your articles, as the Nikkei Shimbun is apparently trying to do.