RE: RE: Chavez
Companies can't unilaterally raise their share prices. Perhaps you were joking and it went over my head, but I assume anyone posting here would already know that.
As for what Chavez would / wouldn't do, the man is an insane megolomaniac with essetially no opposition within his own country. Long term, that means he's doomed to fail as similar despots have (Saddam Hussain, Hitler, etc.), but short term he'll do whatever the hell he wants with impunity and will cause a lot of damage along the way. And with Chavez, the thing he likes damaging the most is the US and anything that smacks of capitalism, so I wouldn't invest much more than my lunch money in a company with any significant portion of its assets in Venezuela.