The Wire

Hugo Chavez has painted the town red again in Venezuela this weekend, winning a second presidential term for his Bolivarian revolution. His first aimed at improving life for the millions of poor in Venezuela, through literacy programs and government credit to help build communities. However, according the the organisation Human Rights Watch, police executions of civilians have not abated under his government, and he also introduced new regulations for the press, allowing him to shut down any television station which had been twice accused of spreading seditious information for five years.