Thursday, December 02, 2010

Meanwhile in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela — Miraflores Palace, designed in the 1880s by an Italian count for one of Venezuela’s 19th-century dictators, has been home to presidents here for more than a century. In recent years, it has welcomed a lively medley of foreign leaders, including Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.

But on Wednesday, Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, opened the doors of the neoclassical building to a new set of residents: flood victims.

[...]

“[Stay] here for a year,” the president told the refugees who became his housemates on Wednesday. He then led them on a brief tour of a palace wing where beds and cribs had been set up next to a barbershop. “When you leave,” he said, “it will be to an apartment of your own.”

  NYT

That damned communist.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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