“Hard to believe any American with any familiarity with the Declaration of Independece and the Constitution could write something like that.”
LOL. Not much has ever lead me to believe the brilliant minds at Daily Kos read the constitution.
I guess all those thousands down in the streets must be totally misinformed. Don’t they know Chavez is just maintaining order? /sarc
And meanwhile, back at the ranch, wire reports say, "Venezuela government and state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA bonds declined following two days of clashes between police and protesters over the government's shutdown of the most-popular TV network...The yield on the Petroleos' 5.25 percent dollar-denominated security due April 2017 jumped 5 basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 7.93 percent at 2:17 p.m. New York time, according to Merrill Lynch & Co. The price, which moves inversely to the yield, fell 0.30 cent to 81.90 cents on the dollar, when the bond started trading. The yield on the 2019 government bond, known as TICC, jumped 6 basis points to 4.88 percent, the highest since March 26, according to Econoinvest Casa de Bolsa CA prices. The price dropped 0.6 to 103.30 cents on the dollar.
``Bonds are obviously absorbing all this political uncertainty, all these protests, all the inflammatory talk from either sides,'' said Nelson Corrie, head of trading at Interacciones Mercado de Capitales in Caracas...