Chavez's henchman faces the music

The Venezuela president’s bodyguard was thoroughly corrupt and will spend a decade behind bars.

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Andrade: all good things come to an end
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According to an old Russian joke, the Soviet leader Brezhnev once invited his elderly mother to his summer house. After showing her around his dacha, including his collection of fancy Western cars, he noticed she had grown increasingly worried as the tour went on. "What's wrong?" asked Brezhnev, puzzled. "But Lyonya," she replied, "what will you do if the Communists come back?"

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