http://dazzlepod.com/gifiles/202526/

For those that wonder what is that they just read; those are some e-mails by Stratfor, a "private" intelligence gathering company, leaked by wikileaks.

I often hear opinions about Chavez, like he is a clown playing politics through dictatorship, without merit or higher motivations. In my opinion he knows very well how the game is played and Las Cristinas is just one of many pawns he yields in a global political struggle.

There's the public domain and there's the reality.

Good reads, cheers.

P.S. Another good one: search for "the jackal"

December 5, 2011

"Chavez's health - the tumor started as a growth close to the prostate, it spread to the colon, which is what led to a lot of confusion in the OS about the treatment of prostate v. colon cancer in hormonal v. chemotherapy. A reliable source on the medical has explained that the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes and into the bone marrow up to the spine, ie. very serious"