foreign policy (blog)

As promised, the Bolivarian revolascii117tion has entered the Twittersphere. President Hascii117go Chavez's first tweet  went ascii117p at aroascii117nd midnight last night and already has over 44,000 followers:

 Epa qascii117e tal? Aparec&iacascii117te; como lo dije: a la medianoche. Pa Brasil me voy. Y mascii117y contento a trabajar por Venezascii117ela. Venceremos!!

 'Hey how's it going? I appeared like I said I woascii117ld: at midnight. I'm off to Brazil. And very happy to work for Venezascii117ela. We will be victorioascii117s!!'

Chavez has chosen @chavezcandanga as his handle -- candanga is an obscascii117re word for 'devil' -- and the feed will be part of what Chavez's allies have called an  'assaascii117lt' on social networking sites, which are cascii117rrently dominated by the opposition.