The second and final installment of a debate about the Albert Einstein Institution's involvement in Venezuela, which has been accused by some of providing support to the opposition in developing non-violent protest strategies to destabilize the Chavez government.

Something you wouldn’t see at the Olympics: Teams of laughing and cheering teenagers and young adults throwing water-filled-condoms at each other, catching them in towels held by one person on each corner, as rain drenches the condom covered ground.

The owner of Fundimeca, an air conditioning factory in Valencia, Carabobo, is waging an intense campaign of terror and intimidation against the factory’s work force, which is fighting to ensure that the company complies with Venezuela’s constitution and labour laws.

The Bush administration's "divide and conquer," Cold War strategy in Latin America has only succeeded in further reducing Washington's standing in the region, which is now lower than it has ever been. Obama would have a chance to make a fresh start. But would he? So far there has been little indication that he would.