Posted on 03/11/2007 12:35:47 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, on a tour of Latin America, has launched a stinging attack on the US. Visiting Bolivia, the firebrand leftist leader said that capitalism was "the road to hell". Mr Chavez underlined the billions of dollars of aid Venezuela is ploughing into Bolivia's economy at a time when the US is reducing its contributions.
US President George W Bush has avoided discussing his rival's regional trip during his own visit to Latin America.
Heaven and earth
"Those who want to go directly to hell, they can follow capitalism," Mr Chavez said in the town of Trinidad in Bolivia.
"And those of us who want to build heaven here on earth, we will follow socialism," he added.
Recent floods in the town left thousands of homeless and their livestock drowned.Venezuela's aid package of $15m (11.4m euros) outweighed the sum offered by the US tenfold.The country also sent in aid workers who attended their president's speech on the airport runway. During his visit, Mr Chavez also pledged more than $1bn (£0.5bn; 0.76bn euros) for oil projects and community radio stations in the country.
Mr Bush spent Saturday in Uruguay where he spoke of the US care for the "human condition" and its "quiet, effective diplomacy".
Rural retreat
He defended capitalism, saying one way to lift people out of poverty was to encourage investment.
"I would call our diplomacy quiet and effective...aimed at helping people, elevating the human condition, aimed at expressing the great compassion of the American people," he said.
Mr Bush (right) said Americans cared about the human condition. The US president has pointedly refused to directly respond to Mr Chavez's comments as they make parallel tours of the region.
Mr Bush's presence in Latin American states has been met with protests and marches, some of which have turned violent. About 20 people were arrested in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo on Friday after an estimated 6,000 people took to the streets.
On Saturday, Mr Bush avoided the crowds by meeting the president at his rural retreat some 125miles (200km) west of the capital. Mr Bush is heading to Colombia on Sunday where he will meet the region's most loyal ally, President Alvaro Uribe, followed by Guatemala and Mexico.
There are about 22,000 members of the security forces posted around Bogota in preparation for Mr Bush's arrival in the Colombian capital.
Mr Chavez, meanwhile, travels on to Nicaragua.
Like a littel yapping daog that wont shut up, but if you try to swat it, it would run away and pee itself..
If it was up to me, I would blockade the bastard...maybe stage a few fly overs by F16s and B52s....
Some people will get day and night mixed up if such a belief serves them best. Amazing how some politicians can become more powerful by making everyone more miserable. He's done more harm to Venezuela than the country he hates most.
Fine, Hugo. Socialize everything. See where it gets you.
Every now and then, the world needs an idiot like you to show them how NOT to do things.
Yep. I am hating my road to hell. Here while I sit in my warm house, surrounded by my family, typing on my computer safe from all harm. Protected with my rights endowed from my Creator. Yep, I am in hell.
Chavez.....reminds me of "Charlie Jump Up"...
He was another communist idiot half way round the world -- who must of thought he was out of sight or range and wanted to demonstrate his command of all the profane and insulting elements of the English language...
He obviously had watched to many WWII movies of the Japanese cursing the Marines....
After his first two "jump up and curse the Marines" performances --- a Marine less than 20 who looked 14 had fixed his position and calculated the range to be just over 300 meters (easily within the M14's effective range), waited patiently for the "next act" and hit the loud mouth little bastard mid chest the 3rd time he pulled his "Charlie Jump up" routine..
That single tap from a 7.62mm is all it took..
The rest of THAT afternoon was peaceful and quiet..
No one had informed the bastard of the 3 strike rule...
Someone needs to calculate the "range" on Hugo...
His chatter and insults are getting VERY tiresome.......
Semper Fi
Score another one for Cindy and her buddies...
Like Cuba?
"And those of us who want to build heaven here on earth, we will follow socialism,"
Previous Socialist Heavens.
Nazi Germany,
The Soviet Union.
CHina.
Cambodia.
The list continues...
Meat, Sugar Scarce in Venezuela Stores
Inflation at 78%, the country is going down the commie rat hole and you just keep blowing hard.
But then you get yours, right?
You're getting capitalism and feudalism mixed up.
And no, there is no zorro. If voters are stupid enough to think that Hugo is one, they'll get burned time and again.
.....You're getting capitalism and feudalism mixed up....
Ahhhh Grasshopper, you are on the path to enlightenment.
Capitalism as practiced by Spanish Catholic Colonialists, including Simon Bolivar, is very much akin to fudalism
Not quite feudalism. What he's about is the corporatist sociological nature of spanish-speaking countries.
Ditto, Like the Islamo Nazis we are up against today, he is telling us he will be a thorn in our side from now on, therefore we should deal with him accordingly!!! What ever happened to our covert mischief making behind the scenes in these God forsaken lands?
They're being had, big time. They could be fooling themselves too.
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