ANOTHER REPORT ON VENEZUELA and environs, from Jorge “scoopmaster” Schmidt:

1. Public confirmation of organized labor-led march on May 1st: The parallel “Bolivarian” Labor Organization announced plans for a counter-demonstration the same day.

2. Excellent piece by T. Varadarajan on Venezuela generally: He’s right, by the way, Venezuela has been esentially socialist for the past 30 years.

3. A helicopter crash killed most of the Venezuelan Air Force’s high command. These were the post-coup guys. It is being blamed on bad weather.

4. The Colombian paramilitary forces have declared Chavez “persona non grata” and “highly dangerous to the intergity of our nation.”

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