A while back, Hobson's Choice had a lot of interesting stuff about the attempts to recall Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. So this little item on Robert Alonso, brother of actress Maria Conchita Alonso, caught my eye.

He is alleged to have allowed anti-Chávez mercenaries to use his Venezuela ranch as a training camp. And now he's in Miami and gave an interview to the Miami Herald to let us all know he wants political asylum in the US. Venezuela wants him extradited. Why give an interview in a Miami Starbucks? Why not just hire an immigration lawyer?

It occurs to me to wonder whether his merry band was part of Wolfowitz's network of friendly militias; yet another attempt to privatize the business of regime change. So why does a wanted man give an interview? Bush's poll numbers aren't looking so good. And a new regime in the US might feel differently about Mr. Alonso.