Some newspapers have dismissed Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s moving of his oil company’s headquarters to a Havana, Cuba, as just a small detail. Well, it is not a small detail, according to one respected Venezuelan journalist, it is a sign of a spreading shadow of tyranny over a huge region of many flags. Daniel Duquenal has a careful translation of the entire essay here.

UPDATE: Venezuelan oilman Gustavo Coronel’s essay on the same topic is a must-read here.