turco, you flagged 2 of my posts earlier for being off topic...i easily could have done the same to any of your posts regarding rusoro or the rants you had with don-wys but i'll explain why i believe they are on topic.....

1. slow news days to me mean that most ven news is on topic anyway...

2. the corruption charges facing the aluminum industry in ven directly affect MIBAM the labor unions and the ven government in general which affects kry....

3. the prospect of hugo getting thrown out of office or a possible coup would also affect kry.

maybe i should have posted the article from pravda that stated the relationship between hugo and the russians is'nt quite as good as rusoro would lead you to believe and in my eyes showed a pretty clear disrespect for hugo by the russians. but that is a post better meant for the rml board...