Venezuela’s oil, however you think it should be allocated, belongs to Venezuela. But that’s not how Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez sees it. He’s now on the verge of appointing a hardcore German Marxist who had and maybe still has ties to the Baaden Meinhof terrorrists to lead Venezuela’s oil company. Not unreasonably, Alek, who is Venezuelan, views this as an unusually brazen sort of treason. In Hugo Chavez’s revolution, ideology is much more important than citizenship. It’s essentially an Sandalista idea and part of a vast phony revolution that he’s been promoting with the ultimate aim of making Venezuela a Cuban satellite state. Read it here.