[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6243299.stm[/URL] "Chavez bid for more state control The country's telecoms giant CANTV is an expected target President Hugo Chavez has pledged to nationalise key Venezuelan companies, as part of plans to transform the country into a full socialist state. Mr Chavez said he wanted to see major Venezuelan power and telecoms companies come under state control. He also called for an end to foreign ownership of lucrative crude oil refineries in the Orinoco region." Oh deary me, a new Socialist Paradise. Oi Sweller, have you toured it on some SOB yet?