The United States has a history of violent intervention in Latin America and that legacy continues in practice to this day. We will probably never know the full extent of the Bush Administration’s role in the illegal coup attempt against democratically-elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. But documentation of official US involvement on some level is readily available. Thus, good-hearted computer geeks everywhere have cast a suspicious eye on a new video game, “Mercenaries 2: World in Flames,” created by Los Angeles based Pandemic/Bioware Studios, with simulates an invasion of Venezuela in the year 2007. Pandemic is a subcontractor for the US Army and CIA funded Institute for Creative Technologies, which uses Hollywood techniques to mount war simulations in California’s high desert in order to conduct military training. “Mercenaries 2: World in Flames” simulates destruction in downtown Caracas, and promises to leave no part of Venezuela untouched. U2’s Bono, well recognized for his campaigns to reduce poverty and treat AIDS in Africa is backing a videogame which promotes the invasion and destruction of Venezuela in order to check “a power hungry tyrant” who has “seized control of Venezuela and her oil supply.” Bono has failed to respond to concerns raised by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network about his funding of this project.