Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez this week threatened to blow up all of Venezuela’s oil wells, should the perfidious yanquis be so insolent as to attack. He does this partly to whip up paranoia in the shantytowns, but generally, even his own supporters are not fooled. The other reason he does it is to whip up fear in the international oil markets and thus drive up the price for his ever-diminishing oil production. He’s on record as saying he wants oil at $100 a barrel. The oil markets are a bit slower to catch on to Chavez’s B-S than the shantytown dwellers, but they too have now started to ignore him and drive prices down whenever he opens his mouth.

Today, someone at Tal Cual newspaper in Caracas called Chavez on it, and did one of the most brilliant, funny satires of a chavista kamikaze sent to blow up the oil wells I have ever seen. It even translates brilliantly. I snickered like crazy on this, because it rang so true. I was even tempted to brazenly steal it from Miguel’s site and just post it here but can’t do that. Anyway, if that’s persuasive enough, click to read the hilarious satire of a third-world rube sent by Hugo Chavez to go blow up some oil wells here.

UPDATE: LINK FIXED! Thanks Joe!