We feature a special report on the expanding wars in Mexico and the death of over 7,000 victims of the drug war; also, the San Francisco Consul General for the Chavez government in Venezuela talks about Chavez' plans for the expanding Bolovarian revolution; circus performers who twirl fire at Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank talk about creative resistance to the ethnic cleansing in Palestine; stand-up comedian Ahmed Ahmed joins us for a few minutes to talk about the expanding comedy world in the Middle East; and the Consul General for Venezuela joins us in Spanish for Flashpoints en Espanol.