Daily Headlines: April 13, 2007

* So this is how socialism in Venezuela really works? (Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan).

* Bolivia’s counter-narcotics efforts have taken a new turn by sending U.S.-backed eradication teams to wipe out illegal coca fields.

* Police in northeastern Brazil arrested fifteen people suspected of involvement in a vigilante “death squad.”

* Peruvian men’s soccer coach Julio Cesar Uribe really ought to teach by example.

Links- Xinhua, Scotsman, Forbes, Andrew Sullivan, The American Scholar

Image- Tiwy.com (Photo of the Caracas Country Club)