Apres moi...: You know things are bad when the president of a country falls victim to a wacky DJ stunt. While extremely funny, it's kind of sad. Chavez is one of the few remaining seemingly genuine socialists to run a country (I think we can agree entities like the Khmer Rouge, the V.C., North Korea, aren't about equality for the classes anymore), and you can imagine that he must have been fairly happy to hear that Castro was calling him (no doubt to praise his steadfastness in the face of the oil strike, the bank strike, etc. - death to the capitalists!), only to have several minutes of disjointed "conversation" end with a barrage of insults from the Miami-based DJs. Now, I'm not saying that I could solve Latin America's economic woes overnight, but clearly, clearly, huge taxes coupled with wasteful government spending ain't the way out of this mess. He has to slim down the government and encourage actual, productive enterprise (I mean, come on, he's got oil to export!). Anyway, sad, but funny.