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Venezuelan president's approval rating stays low--"Is Hugo Chavez Insane?"

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[waxhaw]

Chavez is aping his antecedents; before Chavez came into office Venezuelan president Caldera blamed the media for the negative images of Venezuela. Caldera's predecessor, Perez, did the same thing... and of course these two learned it from one another since they both swapped the presidency back and forth two or three terms each. One thing I noticed while living in Venezuela is that while the Venezuelans are quite vain they're not very introspective; they're very much like children in that invariably they'll blame somebody else for their problems. And when the going gets rough the rich take off for Miami... and the less-well-off go to Houston.

[another cricket]

"Is Hugo Chavez Insane?"

Yes! what did I win?

A. Cricket