Just Another Day in ‘Bolivarian Paradise’

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  02.05.08 | 5:27 PM ET

Slate’s Well-Travel series heads to Venezuela this week, with Andres Martinez—author of a book about Las Vegas I loved—exploring the land of Hugo Chávez. Venezuela’s leader is inescapable on the small screen. “[He] makes for seductive television,” Martinez writes, “a bit like watching your Uncle Fred run the country from a reality TV show.”

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