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Go get 'em, Alan!
Posted on 11/12/2006 4:17:07 PM PST by Kitten Festival
CARACAS, Venezuela: Peruvian President Alan Garcia railed against Venezuela's foreign policy and the country's president, Hugo Chavez, saying the leftist leader has used a mix of petrodollars, blackmail and insults to divide rather than unite Latin America.
Garcia told the Venezuelan daily El Universal in an interview published Sunday that Chavez "exercises power with a club or bag of money, blackmail and seduction."
Chavez — a sharp critic of U.S. President George W. Bush and Latin American leaders close to Washington — says his government's foreign policy is based on solidarity and denies Venezuela is using its immense oil wealth to buy influence abroad.
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This guy is shaping up to be Hugo Chavez's worst nightmare, a nightmare he never expected, a nightmare that only gets worse. Not only that, he's at least as good an orator as Chavez. It would be nice to see him take out the trash by next year.
We should give this guy anything he wants.
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Thank God someone in SA gets it
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Don't underestimate the power of petrodollars. They kept the Soviet Union afloat for some 70 years - with an otherwise untenable economic system. Petrodollars are keeping the pathological and oppressive regime in Iran afloat too - to mention just a couple.
Hugo can mismanage his country for much longer than Castro could ever dream of doing. The petroleum Hugo is pumping is a cure-all for regimes that mismanage. All he needs to do is steal it and slowly strangle, cheat and otherwise screw all of the companies which were gullible enough to put money into Venezuelan energy.
It has already begun. It will last until the oil runs out. Mabye even longer as Castro has thus far demonstrated.
Well, this is a positive development!
Go get 'em, Alan!
Yes indeed. One of the few bright spots at the moment.
My wife is Peruvian.
I have been there. They certainly, while many troubles lie ahead of them. are a capitalist bunch of people. And they have mostly positive views of America. As well as President Bush. My mother in law prays for him every night.
Peruvians are absolutely lovely people. Lucky you.
It's more than that - he's fabulous. He's kicking Chavez in the ... where it counts. We have to support free trade for Peru. Absolutely critical. We cannot abandon them now, not while they are fighting the good fight on our southern flank while we take on alqaida. We have to give them free trade, we owe it to them.
Peru's street-fighter president intends to kick Chavez's keister
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