Venezuelastan

Federal authorities are investigation an Oakland, California-based software firm and its purchase by a Venezuelan-owned company tied to Hugo Chavez.
Concern is that the regime or its supporters could tamper with elections in the United States and in other countries by rigging the electronic balloting....

Bloggers are being credited with inducing EADS CASA to cancel its $600 million military aircraft contract with the Chavez regime.
Earth Times quotes this blogger as saying, "This is another example of the New Media's impact on international politics."...

The Spanish government announced today that the EADS CASA sale to the Venezuelan regime has been canceled.
Spanish officials cited the company's lost profits, thanks to President Bush's January 2006 invocation of nonproliferation regulations that allow the US to veto the sale of foreign military equipment containing American-made parts. For the past 10 months...

The United Nations appears to be handing the Chavez regime an unexpected defeat this week - thanks to Chavez's bizarre speech at the General Assembly last month. Members not only fail to give Venezuela the two-thirds vote needed to admit it to the Security...