Six more years

It was all over two hours after the polls closed. Hugo Chavez (slow dancing with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at left) will be continuing his harebrained "Bolivarian Revolution" in Venezuela for another six years. While Fidel Castro has not yet made any public comments, American leftists are, predictably, creaming their jeans over the news. This is understandable considering that they don't have to live in Venezuela.

The Caracas Chronicles has the blow by blow on the triumph of the Chavistas, and the prelude to a torrent of middle class Venezuelan emigration.