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Man Stranded In Airport For Four Months Disappears Mysteriously

This man is not Tom Hanks. Or Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian who lived in Charles de Gaulle’s Terminal One from August 1988 to July 2006. This guy’s name is Parameswaran. He’s from Sri Lanka and he was stranded in Caracas’ international airport in Venezuela for four months.

July 23, 2011
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Hugo Chavez Is Using Twitter To Run Venezuela

You know those jokes about how Twitter’s only good for telling people what flavour coffee you order? Hugo Chavez respectfully disagrees. He’s been using Twitter to govern Venezuela while he’s holed up in Cuba.

March 16, 2011
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2500 People Live In An Abandoned Skyscraper In Caracas

The Centro Financiero Confinanzas (a.k.a. “the David Tower”, named after its investor David Brillembourg) stands half-complete in downtown Caracas and is Venezuela’s third largest skyscraper.

March 6, 2011
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Squatters Live In A 45-Story Skyscraper With No Elevator. They Have DirecTV Though

Squatters in Venezuela have found a home in an unfinished 45-story skyscraper in Venezuela. They call their home the “Tower of David”, after the financier who tried to build it in the ’90s. People live up to the 28th floor in the elevator-less building and have jury-rigged electricity and water to every inhabited floor. Some of the squatters even have DirecTV satellite dishes set up.

September 18, 2010

Scientist And Wife Busted Trying To Sell Nuke Secrets To Venezuela

Want a ticket for the express line to federal prison? Try selling nuclear secrets to another country. A husband and wife duo – former contractors at the nuke-specialising Los Alamos National Lab – are indicted on charges of exporting secrets to Venezuela.

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