Very surprising news. He was only 58. I was passing by a TV tuned to Fox News and when I saw the headline, walking along and not paying too much attention, at first I thought it was Raul Castro.
He sure wasn't any friend of the U.S. The initial analysis I saw from a talking head (John Bolton) was that his presumptive successor isn't much different. In a way it's too bad Venezuela has so much oil because it forces us to deal with them in some way, like the hostile Arab nations.
