[Mo1]

Also helping to keep Chavez in power has been the attention of Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), at the time of the brief coup the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, and his chief foreign-policy aide, Janice O'Connell. Columnist Robert Novak wrote in April that Dodd and particularly O'Connell hold a grudge against Assistant Secretary of State Otto Reich, a conservative and anticommunist. This antagonism to Reich in particular, and conservatives generally, fuels Dodd's aggressive stance on U.S. policy in Latin America.

Chavez ???

Carter's Buddy???

Hmmmm .. besides Communism ... Oil?

[piasa]

Oil. Bingo...

And also China, which has been intricately involved in both Cuba and Venezuela, not to mention China needs oil, too.

And behind curtain number three, Iran.