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Posted on 06/11/2006 8:33:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday that he will visit Iran and North Korea, two nations at odds with Washington over nuclear development, at a time when Chavez is seeking to distance Venezuela from the United States.
Chavez, who has promised a socialist revolution to end poverty in the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, has drawn fire from the State Department for building alliances with U.S. foes like Cuba and Iran.
"We will soon be in North Korea, we will soon be in Tehran, deepening our ... strategic alliances," Chavez said during his weekly Sunday broadcast.
He said the tour will also include stops in China and Russia, where Venezuela will sign military cooperation agreements with the Russian government, following U.S. moves to block Chavez's arms purchases from other countries.
He did not provide dates for the trip, which he said will include a stop in "North Vietnam."
The State Department last month added Venezuela to a list of nations not cooperating in the fight on terrorism and has repeatedly accused Chavez of supporting leftist guerrillas in neighboring Colombia, though there has been no clear evidence to support this claim.
The U.S. government in January blocked sales of Spanish military planes and ships to Venezuela by refusing Spain an export license for the U.S. technology used in the vessels.
Chavez has aggressively supported Iran's efforts to develop nuclear technology, and has helped undermine the U.S. embargo of Cuba by increasing trade and providing oil on favorable terms.
He drew State Department criticism in 2000 by visiting former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as part of a tour to strengthen the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Last month, he took a Venezuelan delegation to England, Italy, Austria, Libya, and Algeria.
The leftist former paratrooper, who has hurled insults like "donkey" and "assassin" at President Bush, is up for re-election in December.
He is widely expected to win after building up popular support through multibillion-dollar social investment projects financed by oil revenues.
A good test for the F-22.
just drop in behind and slip one to him....end of problem.
While he is out of country our folks in the shadows could stir up a coup while he is visiting his good friends abroad. It almost worked once before. Now is the time.
It scares me: I don't like seeing our enemies congeal.
Will Cindy be in tow?
Y'know although air travel is very reliable today but you can never predict sudden mechanical or air trouble :-)
Chavez=Media Orgasm.
Hmmm, just when you think it's safe to fly through the Bermuda Triangle...just damn!
VENCEREMOS...let the Basard (HdP) stay in either place that has the stomach...
He's taking Jimmy Carter, Hillary Klinton, BJ Clinton, Chappy Kennedy, Hanoi Kerry, Foamingatthemouth Gore, Murtha, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Leahy, Bill Nelson (D-FL), Jesse Jackson, Barbie Streisand, Ward Churchill, HOWeird Dean, Patrick Kennedy, Boxer, Feinstein, Susan Collins (RINO-ME), Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME), Lincoln Chaffee (RINO-RI), Rockefeller, Plame, Wilson, ETC.
You know, these sorts of "strategic alliances" and leagues have almost always led to massive or even global wars.
But remember that our "Friends" in Russia and China condone Chavez's behavor and the behavior of North Korea and Iran by selling them weapons and giving military aid.
Don't you get the feeling he's trying to pick a fight with us?
I think that El Gordo is suffering from insufficient oxygen supply to the brain - kinda like Algore. Chavez believes his own delsions and propoganda as do other swaggering tin-plated dictators with delsions of godhood. Let's see how tough El Gordo is during the next coup - I'll wager that he'll wet himslef as he cowers in a closet. He is a just a swaggering bully who will bluster until someone, anyone, calls his bluff.
Good to see ya, AAC.
"I think the term "El Gordo" is very fitting."
It was either that or "Jowel Boy". The sad part of all this is that the very people who the Left believes are liberated, the poor, are the ones who will suffer most. It is the poor who cannot escape the regime nor afford to pay the bribes upon which such a despostic system operates. The poor will suffer the exploitation, suffering, butchery, "reeducation camps", and other humilliations. In short, the people of Venezuela are screwed until this dips**t goes off to meet Zarqawi, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler in the seventh circle of hell.
"Will Cindy be in tow?"
She has probably started stalking him on MySpace already...
That's why tyrants and dictators love to keep their people ignorant.
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