Late Monday night, we were browsing the pages of BoingBoing (a place we generally go to avoid politics) when we came across this post from Guido David Núñez-Mujica, a biology student from Merída, Venezuela:
“On Saturday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez decreed that February the 2nd, the anniversary of his ascent to [the] presidency, would be a national holiday.
“The government said that it would enforce the holiday and close and fine any open store. They are doing that and officers from the equivalent of the IRS, the SENIAT, are closing many stores that opened today. The country is paralyzed, no children at school, no classes at the universities, just because [of] the selfish desires of a tyrant who said two days ago that he intends to be in power until 2049 and that there would be war if the opposition wins.”
