Cuba better place than Venezuela for doing business?

Yup, apparently Cuba is projected to be a better place to do business over the next five years than Venezuela. Only Angola ranked worse. Click here for the original article in the Economist .



I don't think it is necessary to go into much of a discussion about this, other than to say that it is ironic to see Venezuela nationalizing (buying out) foreign companies and resorting to state controlled development while Cuba under Raul seems to be realizing private ownership of farms and homes is the solution to some of its problems.

Olympic torch should visit Venezuela

After the debacle of the torch run in France and England, today it made a secret and short trip to San Francisco, clearly the Chinese Olympic organizers didn't do their homework because it would have found a much more friendly crowd in Venezuela.

Yesterday the Venezuelan government had a press release supporting the Chinese governments position "against the incessant and systematic campaign against the country during the past few weeks".

The press release calls the demonstrations a "mediatic manipulation of the demonstrations by violent groups in the autonomous region of Tibet", hold on it gets better, "it is formulated in the psychological warfare laboratories of the United States that they use to destabilize countries that don't adhere to the rules of the empire".

The press release goes on to accuse the United States "elite" of orchestrating these events out of jealously because of the "admirable developmental progress China has exhibited".

So... I guess Tibet shouldn't count on Venezuelan support anytime soon. One can only hope Chavez will end up in one of the many realms of hell, preferable one that isn't human.