Another day, another dead dissident over in the socialist hellhole of Venezuela. The death of Nelson Martínez in police custody made the news, because no one had ever seen such a high-level official killed off, possibly by bad medical care, which wouldn't be surprising in a Venezuelan dungeon, or maybe a rubout from the mafia state that's currently in power.  Maybe it was both.  It's likely someone wanted him dead. Martínez had been Venezuela's oil chief, the man at the top of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., which brought in 95% of the country's export revenues based on Venezuela's oil shipments, and close to Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro.  The news accounts say he had ostensibly been busted for corruption, but that's largely meaningless, given the widespread corruption of the Chavista nomenklatura.  They're all corrupt, so why would this...(Read Full Post)