Venezuela: “The seams are beginning to show some rips”

Explaining the etymology of his weblog, The Devil's Excrement, Miguel Octavio lays out his theory as to why Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution is “ripping at the seams.” Oil Wars, on the other hand, cites polling numbers from Venezuelan firm Datanalysis that “show that income is rising for Venezuela’s poor majority.”

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