Posted on 04/10/2008 8:02:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his close friend Fidel Castro predicted the fall of the U.S. dollar. Chavez said Cuba's 81-year-old former president mentioned the prediction some time ago before signs of a weakening dollar had begun to appear.
"Fidel told me one day, 'Chavez, it won't be long before the crisis of the dollar occurs,'" the Venezuelan leader said in a televised speech.
Chavez said Castro handed him a document he had written during one of their meetings in Havana that said "the United States has bought half the world with paper bills that don't have real backing. ... The world can't sustain that bubble."
"There it is, the crisis of the dollar," Chavez said.
Chavez called the United States' economic woes a "terrible economic crisis," noted that some Americans are losing their jobs and suggested that much worse is to come.
"I think if things continue on like this in the United States, we'll have to start preparing to receive the refugees here," Chavez said.
The U.S. remains the leading buyer of Venezuelan oil, but Chavez is seeking to rally opposition to Washington's stances, from free-market economic policies to the war in Iraq.
His opponents accuse him of using his perpetual conflict with the U.S. to stir up nationalistic sentiment and draw away attention from domestic problems including rampant crime, soaring inflation and sporadic shortages of some basic foods.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez wears a traditional Mexican 'Charro' hat during the opening ceremony of an exhibition commemorating the life of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata, in Caracas, Thursday, April 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Howard Yanes)
They say the hat makes the man..
Yes. An ass hat.
I love being the setup guy. ;-)
Pack your bags. Hugo says come on over.
I'm guessing this was a Ouija board communication.
Gee, Pendejo Loco, how is that grand socialist experiment of yours going?
I have always liked team comedy. :-)
You know what? I predict the fall of Chavez. You heard it here first.
Does that make me a genius or a prophet? Maybe not, since it's so dumb obvious.
Yeah..we’ve got a lot of illegals will send your way.
We should send them back on the oil tankers..as deck cargo.
‘...an hee whispered in my ear an said, “One word Hugo, ... plastics”.... Feedell eez such a genius’
Bush: "YEAH, Yeah, yeah, WHATever... just fill'er up MonkeyBoy!!!"
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez looks at a portrait of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata during the inauguration of an exhibition marking the 90th anniversary of Zapata's assassination, in Caracas April 10, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA)
Bump!
Chavez=Pendejo Loco
The one defines a whole new category we could call
The Barf/Humor Alert.
Yea, that genus Castro. The man who managed to take a country with great potential into complete poverty.
Socialists lie. Always.
Castro wanted Khrushchev to nuke the U.S., but that’s an historical fact you won’t read in the history books.
“Por qué no te callas?”
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