[xsmommy]

thanks for all the venezuela info that you have been posting. i have good friends from venezuela, whose families are there and committed to ousting Chavez. i find personally very irksome, the ennui of the US with respect to this crisis to our south.

[Dog Gone]

I think we'll see a lot more interest when the effects of the oil strike are fully felt and gasoline prices go up.

Apparently, the State Department is content to have no visible role in this situation in Venezuela. As long as it's purely a political struggle, and doesn't deteriorate into civil war, it appears that we'll have a hands-off approach.

But I have to believe that we're monitoring the situation closely. We have a strategic interest in getting Chavez removed and the oil flowing again.

I'm not too happy that Brazil is sending 500,000 barrels of gasoline the Venezuela, but since they just elected someone of Chavez's ilk, it's not terribly surprising. We need to stop the spread of leftists in key countries in the hemisphere.