Feb 27 2010

The Lights Go Out on Chavez

There's an amusing video this week of the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in the midst of a televised attack on–who/what else?–George W. Bush when the lights go out. Chavez is plunged into darkness and, miraculously, ceases talking.
The spectacle reminds me of an incident in Havana in 2002 when I was listening to the president of [...]