>>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hugo-chavez-passionate-but-polarizing-venezuelan-president-dead-at-58/2013/03/05/42525790-afdd-11e0-90e1-c12867691ae6_print.html
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>Deal as in "ask for the price and threaten with buying it elsewhere if too expensive"?
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>No deal as in get in a government thats acceptable to you but make sure they don't get too comfortable.

Wait wait, isn't that interference in domestic affairs of a sovereign country? I think there are international treaties, conventions and whatnot which forbid that, as such things used to cause wars in the past. I mean, we don't want, say, Monaco to take steps to "get in a government" in New Zealand that would be acceptable to them, because before we know it, Moldavia may express some dislike of government of Japan and then there's no end to it.