Hugo Chavez unhinged

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<b>Permanent link to <a href="http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/09/hugo_chavez_unh.php">Hugo Chavez unhinged</a></b>

<b>Excerpt:</b> Lest you have any doubt whatsoever that other than within the Security Council, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and third world dictatorships virtually control the UN !

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To All:

Chavez has some unexpected home-front problems in his bid for re-election:

http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000033/003378.htm

Venezuela has only built around 120,000 houses since Chavez took office compared to demand during the same period of about 800,000, according to private sector estimates.

The shortage has been felt most strongly in Caracas barrios like Reyes' slum -- clusters of tightly packed houses with narrow snaking streets where poverty and violent crime often coexist with Venezuela's ebullient Caribbean cheer.

Housing prices jumped around 35 percent from 2004 to 2005 and building materials like sand and bricks -- often used by the poor to build their own homes -- have nearly doubled in cost over the last year.

Last month, Chavez ally and Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto upped the ante by ordering the expropriation of two posh golf courses in the capital to make way for new homes for 25,000 families -- though the government criticized the move.

With Aloha,