this comes from crooked timber, who is trying to find a good spanish translator, but apparently the buzz in spanish and south american news papers runs to this:

http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002319.html

(ie believing that venzuela under chavez will like to control peru and bolivia on there way to make south america a socialist superstate)

http://news.google.es/news?hl=es&edition=es&ie=UTF-8&newsclusterurl=http://www.bolpress.com/index.php%3FCod%3D2002082137

google news here, but spanish.