Felix over at Colossus is noting that Venezuela's president is becoming more of a dictator every day. At the moment Chavez is stifling dissent in the national media.
Amy and I got to see some evidence of this first hand during our honeymoon cruise. The first two islands we visited on the cruise portion of the trip were Aruba and Curacao. Now these are the southwestern most islands in the carribbean and are Dutch territories. Both are located less than fifty miles off the coast of Venezuela and both have major oil refineries which process Venezuelan crude.
Oddly enough we saw a lot of Dutch military activity on the islands. F-16s were flying over on a regular basis. Tanks were driving around the local roads. The locals said they haven't seen this kind of activity since the end of the second world war. Does this has something to do with the recent Venezuelan military buildup? Could be...
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