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Thursday, March 20, 2003

Take a look. Very interesting & funny!

www.crikey.com.au

The Crikey Crew

......................unfair to everybody".

Hugo Kelly hugo@melbpc.org.au Crikey's eccentric media, politics, business and sports commentator haphazardly applies his sublime writing skills to all sorts of things. Hugo was first elected Venezualan President in a 1998 landslide victory, ousting the regime of Carlos Andres Perez, Hugo Kelly's path to power has followed a traditional South American route: from military strongman to populist political dictator. This admirer of Fidel Castro's Cuba and avowed anti-globalist was pushed from office on 12 April - as a result of his attempts to take control of the world's fourth-biggest oil industry. But just two days later, after his supporters - mainly Venezuela's poor - took the streets, he was back in the presidential palace. Now, his country his in the grip of a dramatic general strike with oil production paralysed and Hugo might soon might himself out of job and writing for Crikey again.

Dan McNutt dan@crikey.com.au Dan McNutt is Crikey's Sydney (Sin City) correspondent. Dan is like Stephen Mayne in many ways ........................

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