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“It is shameful that Chavez’s actions to usurp power and impose Castro-style control over the media have been met with barely a whimper from most member-states of the Organization of American States, an organization that is supposed to promote and protect democracy in the Western Hemisphere.”

Wikileaks cables show that Obama and Hillary were aware of Zelaya’s criminal activity and his threat to Honduran democracy and backed him anyway.

Republican congressional leaders say they will use a new trade deal with South Korea that President Obama wants to pass, as leverage to move a long-delayed agreement with Colombia.

Venezuela has agreed to allow Iran to establish a military base manned by Iranian missile officers, soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Venezuelan missile officers. In addition, Iran has given permission for the missiles to be used in case of an “emergency”.

Last Friday Brazil took the first step and injected itself in the Middle East peace process by announcing that it recognized the state of Palestine with its borders as they were before the war of 1967.

The owner of a Venezuelan pro-opposition television channel has told U.S. media that he has asked for political asylum in the United States.

Years ago, Americans worried about Venezuela’s leftist Hugo Chavez becoming a new Castro — with oil. It happened. Now he’s filling his cabinet with drug lords, and the threat morphs into something creepier.

One of the world’s top drug kingpins may soon be telling U.S. prosecutors everything he knows about Venezuelan officials who have abetted his cocaine smuggling operations.

Leaders of Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and other drug-battered nations held a one-day summit in Cartagena, Colombia, to send the message that Prop. 19 will hurt them.

If something isn’t done to prevent it, we’ll likely be facing an emerging nuclear threat from President Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela sometime in the next 10 years.