Chávez builds base with grass-roots circles in U.S.
Miami Herald ^ | November 21, 2005 | PABLO BACHELET pbachelet@herald.com
Posted on 11/21/2005 5:06:58 AM EST by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON - Miami's Jesús Soto supports Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's vision of ''participatory democracy.'' Valerie Pusch of Chicago backs Chávez because of his policies on behalf of the poor.
And they say so loudly, as heads of their local Bolivarian Circles -- among the dozen or so U.S. copies of the groups Chávez has set up throughout his country to mobilize Venezuelans on behalf of his socialist ``revolution.''
Even as Chávez attacks President Bush as his sworn nemesis, his government is running a strong campaign to curry favor with U.S. citizens through leftist grass-roots groups, paid lobbyists and public relations operatives and offers of cheap fuel for America's poor.
The Venezuelan leader is running a ''grass-roots foreign policy,'' said Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Washington based Center for Economic and Policy Research, a group that supports Chávez.
''Obviously the government of the United States has not been very friendly and [the Venezuelans] figure they have a better chance at dealing directly with the people who don't have any particular reason not to like Venezuela,'' he added.
Chávez steadily accuses the Bush administration of planning to topple him, and his prosecutors have even filed charges of ''conspiracy to destroy the nation's republican form of government'' against four leaders of a Venezuelan activist group that got U.S. funds and helped organize a failed recall vote on the president last year. (Read more at link)
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And they say so loudly, as heads of their local Bolivarian Circles --
among the dozen or so U.S. copies of the groups Chávez has set
up throughout his country to mobilize Venezuelans on behalf of his
socialist ``revolution.'' <<<
It sounds as though the commies in this article, are about to get a visit from Immigration authorities and my find they suddenly have visa problems. Or at least I do hope so.
This country needs to wake up, the fools like Chavez, the leader of Iran and N. Korea, will wake up one day and discover they made a mistake.
Insanity is free and lots of fools are using it.