Holiday in Venezuela: Chavez locks down Caracas, anti-semitic slurs appearing.

Guido David Núñez-Mujica tells Boing Boing, On Saturday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez decreed that February the 2nd, the anniversary of his ascent to presidency, would be a national holiday. The government said that it would enforce the holiday and close and fine any open store. They are doing that and officers from the equivalent of the IRS, the SENIAT, are closing many stores that opened...