Posted on 05/05/2006 6:20:26 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Norman Caldera has asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to butt out of his country's political affairs after Chavez signed a favorable oil pact with dozens of leftist Nicaraguan mayors.
Peru and a Mexican presidential candidate also have recently accused Chavez of interfering in internal affairs.
Chavez agreed last month to ship 10 million barrels of fuel a year at preferential prices to 51 Nicaraguan communities, many of them allied with the party of Sandinista presidential candidate Daniel Ortega. He also made a donation of 10,000 tons of urea to Sandinista farming organizations, Caldera said.
Chavez has openly backed Ortega, saying he would like his "friend" and "brother" to win Nov. 5 presidential elections.
"We hope this partisan support comes to an end so that Nicaraguans can freely choose who we want to be the next leader of Nicargua," Caldera told a local television station Thursday during a government event in the city of Boaco, 45 miles northeast of the capital, Managua.
Government officials could not be reached for comment Friday.
Ortega has denied Chavez's involvement in his campaign, saying the oil deal and urea donation are nothing more than the Venezuelan president's expression of solidarity with Nicaragua.
Officials in Peru and a candidate in Mexico have also recently accused Chavez of supporting leftist opposition presidential candidates in their countries.
On Saturday, Peru withdrew its ambassador from Venezuela to protest what it called Chavez's "persistent and flagrant" interference in politics. Chavez has repeatedly endorsed Peruvian nationalist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, while calling one of Humala's rivals a thief and the other a candidate of the oligarchy.
In Mexico, presidential candidate Felipe Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party, has portrayed leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as a political menace linked to Chavez, infuriating both Chavez and Lopez Obrador, both of whom have denied the accusation.
Calderon also has accused Chavez of supporting the Mexican left by offering free operations to poor Indians in the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, which is governed by Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party.
Chavez ping.
Two words: Monroe Doctrine.
Unfortunately, we've lost our will and our courage to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
When a country asks Jimmy Carter to stop interfering I'll
know there is some hope for the world.
Commie / socialist / Marxist gaining political pull in South America ?
Finally, someone starts to stand up to Mr. Fruitcake.
It's nice that it's someone from his own hemisphere.
Isn't bribing people great!
As always, the socialist bribes people with their own wealth and then uses his power to bribe others with that wealth.
It looks like we better get that will back because it doesn't look like Hugo is going to back off.
Popman wrote:
Did we some how slip back into the 1980's?
----It kind of seems that way. Chavez is a POS that needs to seriously watch his azz. The chinese are doing the same thing in other countries, trying to slip in the back door to spread their joyful comminism.
Nicaragua doesn't want communism, right now the country is doind decent with a political system almost like the united states has.
Seize the shipped oil for all the people of Nicaragua. Break off relations with this monster.
Communists are like rats. Just when you thought you've killed them all, a few swim up through the sewers,and start multiplying. I humbly ask the rats forgiveness for comparing them to Chavez.
Not so much that, but remember, John Fitzgerald Kennedy pretty much scuttled the Monroe Doctrine when he "courageously" handled the Cuban missle crisis back in the early '60s. Essentially, we have no Monroe Doctrine today.
We only learned in later years of the concessions JFK made to get the USSR to back off.
Chavez is way more than a POS. He is playing a very, very deadly political game.
If oil ever goes too far down in price, his economy crashes and his country implodes.
I'm beginning to understand why Pat Robertson said what he did. I don't condone it, but certainly think he needs to be neutered by whatever means necessary.
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This story doesn't mention it, but he did the same to support leftists in THIS country, offering liberal politicians cheap fuel oil for their districts over the winter.
Maybe someone should sue to get that marked as an illegal campaign contribution for the democrats.
He did that here in New England too. Democrats are treacherous!
Well, not everyone loves him after all.
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