Hugo Chavez

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(CNN) -- Venezuela's authoritarian president Hugo Chavez is a villain out of a Batman movie: buffoonish and sinister in equal measure.


Sunday's vote result powerfully exposes both sides of his clown-prince system of rule.



I think this article pretty well sums it up regarding Chavez.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/opinio...tml?hpt=hp_bn7

TAE, the last time I checked Saudi Arabia was considered part of the Middle East. About 8% of our imports come from Venezuela versus approx. 14% from Saudi. Also, considering the capacity of the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast is roughly 3.5 million bbl/day, it's rather unlikely that most of them only process the Venezuela crude (about 1 million bbl/day). Originally Posted by chefnerd