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Chavez: Castro predicted fall of dollar
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/10/08 | AP

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: castro; chavez; dollar; fidel; predicted
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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)


1 posted on 04/10/2008 8:02:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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They say the hat makes the man..


2 posted on 04/10/2008 8:03:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yes. An ass hat.


3 posted on 04/10/2008 8:03:39 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

I love being the setup guy. ;-)


4 posted on 04/10/2008 8:04:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge
"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.

Pack your bags. Hugo says come on over.

5 posted on 04/10/2008 8:05:08 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: NormsRevenge
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his close friend Fidel Castro predicted the fall of the U.S. dollar.

I'm guessing this was a Ouija board communication.

6 posted on 04/10/2008 8:05:23 PM PDT by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but theyÂ’re really after folding money.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Gee, Pendejo Loco, how is that grand socialist experiment of yours going?


7 posted on 04/10/2008 8:06:58 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: NormsRevenge

I have always liked team comedy. :-)


8 posted on 04/10/2008 8:07:33 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: NormsRevenge
Chavez said Thursday that his close friend Fidel Castro predicted the fall of the U.S. dollar.

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.

9 posted on 04/10/2008 8:08:20 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: JennysCool

Yeah..we’ve got a lot of illegals will send your way.
We should send them back on the oil tankers..as deck cargo.


10 posted on 04/10/2008 8:08:28 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: NormsRevenge

‘...an hee whispered in my ear an said, “One word Hugo, ... plastics”.... Feedell eez such a genius’


11 posted on 04/10/2008 8:08:37 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Chavez: "You are a devil, you smell like sulfur, you are a drunk, you are the demon, you are a dictator, you are an assassin Mr. Devil, you are..."

Bush: "YEAH, Yeah, yeah, WHATever... just fill'er up MonkeyBoy!!!"

12 posted on 04/10/2008 8:08:46 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Army Air Corps
George and Gracie spoken here. :-)

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)

13 posted on 04/10/2008 8:08:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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Bump!

Chavez=Pendejo Loco


14 posted on 04/10/2008 8:09:00 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: NormsRevenge
Well give Castro a lollipop. Heck, give them both a lollipop.
15 posted on 04/10/2008 8:10:25 PM PDT by MaxMax (It's not the politics I despise, It's the politicians for being so stupid..)
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To: NormsRevenge

The one defines a whole new category we could call
The Barf/Humor Alert.


16 posted on 04/10/2008 8:11:42 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Pain is weakness leaving your body"---U S MARINES)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yea, that genus Castro. The man who managed to take a country with great potential into complete poverty.


17 posted on 04/10/2008 8:13:38 PM PDT by doc1019 (God is in control ... not Global Warming.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Socialists lie. Always.


18 posted on 04/10/2008 8:13:42 PM PDT by weegee (March 18th, 2008 Obama~"I did NOT listen to the sermons of that man, Jeremiah Wright...")
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To: NormsRevenge

Castro wanted Khrushchev to nuke the U.S., but that’s an historical fact you won’t read in the history books.


19 posted on 04/10/2008 8:14:26 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: NormsRevenge

“Por qué no te callas?”


20 posted on 04/10/2008 8:15:08 PM PDT by dighton
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