Hugo Chavez
dblum | May 16, 2010 Once upon a time - by which I mean the 19th century - people spilled the poison arsenic into their lives with free and merry hands.
Arsenic was mixed into medicines, into cosmetics, into weed killers, insecticies, rat poisons, fly papers. It was the primary ingredient in a number of well-known dyes used to color fabric, wallpaper, the artificial leaves used to decorate hats and wreaths, cardboard boxes, greeting cards, labels, candles, India rubber balls, oil paint, tin plants, Venetian blinds, carpets, soap, and even green stones set into costume jewelry.
Naturally, poisoners…