On or Off Cuba Ping.
Posted on 02/13/2005 9:14:05 PM PST by freedom44
VENEZUELA'S President Hugo Chavez, adding to his growing barrage of charges against the United States, accused the George W. Bush administration of plotting his assassination and thanked his Cuban ally Fidel Castro for warning him of about it.
"Thank you, Fidel. Really, there are rumors, (but) they are not going to pull it off, my dear friend. I am going to make it to old age like you," Chavez said late Saturday on a visit to Miranda state. Castro had said earlier Saturday that Bush's government likely would be behind a plan to kill the leftist-populist Chavez, whose country is a top US oil supplier.
"If they kill Chavez it will be the responsibility of president George W. Bush", Castro said, quoted by the official Cuban news agency Prensa Latina. Castro cited his experience as someone "who has survived hundred's of the Empire's (US) assassination plots."
The Cuban president, who leads the Americas' only communist government, made the remark at an international conference of economists in Havana.
Chavez repeatedly has accused the United States of funding the opposition to try to pry him from office, and of having played a key role in the failed coup that removed him from power for two days in April 2002.
Washington has shrugged off the accusations and slams Chavez, who is elected, for his close association with Castro, who leads a one-party regime.
Also Saturday Chavez lashed out at the United States and warned it against meddling in Venezuelan affairs after the US ambassador was critical of Caracas' plans to purchase arms from Russia.
"They are not the owners of the world, and their ambassadors here or anywhere in the world should show respect for the sovereignty of every country," Chavez said in Miranda. He slammed remarks by US ambassador William Brownfield, who in Friday said Venezuela's purchase of 100,000 AK-47 rifles and 40 Russian helicopters was "not transparent."
"He is not here to be voicing these opinions. I can ask him or any other ambassador in Venezuela not to meddle in our domestic affairs, because you have to ask if there is transparency in the invasion of Iraq," Chavez said.
"The world knows that president (George W.) Bush told a bold-faced lie saying that there were chemical weapons in Iraq that were threatening the world. And there the United States still is, bombing cities, killing children," Chavez said.
He added that the United States would not have objected "if we had bought the (weapons) from them; then they would be happy."
Cuba and Venezuela in October 2000 inked a cooperation pact that under which Caracas supplied Cuba with 53,000 barrels of oil a day, which has been crucial to keeping Cuba's severely strained economy afloat.
Cuba in turn has boosted its cooperation with Venezuela, sending thousands of Cuban teachers for a literacy campaign, doctors and sports coaches to work there.
On or Off Cuba Ping.
Sure, sure. Tell a delusional, paranoid, mental case something to increase his paranoia and his delusions. heh heh heh
Chavez must have got another case of cash from his owner over in Cuba. He's as unoriginal as his owner, too. Assassination ashmassination. If we wanted to assassinate either one, they'd be dead.
I can live with that.
Senior Chavez (and Senior Castro) best remember that old Texas defense argument for murder of "Some men just need killin." :) And if there ever was a SOB that needed killing it is those two.
Castro: "I'm relevant! Look at me! Look at me!"
Venezuela will have to kill him on their own, to regain any self respect.
Semper Fi
Hey Hugo, look up. See that drone? It has your name on it. Time to reach out and claim it.
Damnit! Can't you people keep a friggin secret!?
lol
Ping
I know Dubya is preoccupied but he needs to cast his gaze South.
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