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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/world/americas/25venez.html?hp

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez faces setbacks after yesterday’s regional elections (he won 17 out of 22, although it should be noted that two of the regions that voted against him contain roughly half of the country’s population), as the New York Times bravely chronicles through its stunningly even-handed prose. But clearly this must all be part of a grand, elaborate plan to usurp democracy in the name of his Evolving Revolutionary Ideology.

I wonder, too, how much of the Venezuelan tax-payers’ money has recently gone toward bailing out wealthy speculators and large financial institutions.