Miguel Octavio has a terrific translation of Venezuela????????s leading dissident editor Teodoro Petkoff today, regarding President Hugo Chavez????????s filthy, sexist, racist comments delivered on national television about Condoleezza Rice.

Before a nationally televised audience Sunday, President Chavez of Venezuela made a full pig of himself, hurling racist, sexist insults at the sort of person he’s never quite gotten used to: an intelligent, beautiful woman who happens to be very powerful, Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Babalu Blog is talking about it here. Chavez has apparently just signed into law a land reform decree that would reallocate farmland. Not good. And Gustavo Coronel has a new essay up regarding Chavez’s oil policy, which is illogical and in conjunction with Chavez’s inane and random behavior.

Miguel Octavio from The Devil’s Excrement has a roundup of news in Venezuela, complete with the necessary sarcasm. And you have to have a good sense of humor to laugh at the situation there. And he has a lot of other great posts as well. Like this one on his government’s hypocrisy in terms of receiving foreign campaign donations. And for those of you who haven’t heard, there is a recent crisis between Venezuela and Colombia over Colombia secretly taking some terrorists that Chavez wouldn’t hand over. Well… read the entire front page of the website, it’s easier than me…

I received an email today from a Miss MoneyPenny with a comprehensive list of the best blogs out of Venezuela. I thought it would be good to bring attention to them out front instead of just silently adding them to the blogroll. But at least now we can start seeing some South America updates! –http://www.venezuelatoday.net/ The Venezuelan Drudge Report –http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/ Miguel Octavio’s blog, he is a banker in Caracas –http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/ Daniel in Yaracuy, he is a scientist in the boondocks –http://www.vcrisis.com/ Alek Boyd’s blog of blogs, he is a young Venezuelan exile in London –http://www.venezuelatoday.net/gustavocoronel.html essayist Gustavo Coronel is a…