Like a rotting jungle, redolent of every odor and fetid color, yet utterly impassable in viney tangles, nothing seems to stop the spreading corruption that has now gripped Hugo Chavez’s communist caudillo hacienda known as Venezuela.

Daniel in Venezuela, at Venezuela News & Views has an excellent Venezuela corruption roundup, with links to several sources showing the extent of how corruption is overtaking the country and spreading beyond any reasonable reach of reform, showing itself in many different kinds of forms. Read the whole thing here.

And don’t miss Miguel’s excellent translation of corruption stories from Le Monde of Paris, which he translated from French to English, shedding a stark light on what’s going on over there right now. Read the whole thing here.