News about Hugo Chávez

DANIEL HANNAN: Under the Union Jack we ended the slave trade, defeated Nazism and Communism and spread the rule of law across the world... so why is the liberal Left now so ashamed of it?

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 15, 2024
Why do Lefties have a problem with our national flag? It's a serious question. There are few nations in the world of which radicals should be prouder. Which country, down the centuries, did as much to enrich working people and give them a share in government? Where, in the sweep of history, would you rather have been poor, or female, or from a religious minority? What makes the latest bout of national angst about the Union flag interesting is the location. Some locals in the Norfolk village of Claxton are reportedly upset at plans to fly the world's most famous banner outside their village hall on special occasions.

After Maduro's government barred American agents, the United States sent SPIES into Venezuela for years to record the country's politicians' drug trafficking arrangements

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 1, 2024
An explosive newly revealed classified memo has spelled out a DEA attempt to rely on informants inside Venezuela to generate drug trafficking lawsuits against government officials. It was part of a broader probe named "Money Badger" and came during the Trump administration's' "maximum pressure" campaign. Close Maduro allies were swept up in the probe.