Preemptive Karma: Hugo Chavez Flips Off Yet Another Member of the GOP Base

June 01, 2007

Hugo Chavez Flips Off Yet Another Member of the GOP Base

Hugo Chavez made some real enemies when he decided to nationalize Venezuela's oil, and now he's gone and made his situation even worse by booting Monsanto out of the country. In what is being described as "the most sweeping restrictions on GMOS in the Western Hemisphere," Chavez has announced that genetically modified crops cannot be cultivated on Venezuelan soil. He may well be a dangerous socialist dictator-in-the-making, I don’t know, but in the mean time he sure is doing a good job of looking like a populist. And I'll admit I'm getting a kick out of thinking about how maddening this man must be to the big corporate interests who spend so much money to skew our own government's regulations to suit their own interests.

Posted by Becky at June 1, 2007 01:02 PM