Chavez goes on Iranian time

This is really interesting: Venezuela is changing its time by half an hour. Yes, it’s nutty, but the only other country I know of (and there may be others, it would be fun to see who else goes for this) that is half an hour different from its neighbors is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Further proof of the growing intimacy between the two countries?

Well, they both have student demonstrations against The Leader, don’t they?