[Cincinatus' Wife]

It sounds like Chavez wants to refine his heavy crude outside the Louisiana and TexasCitgo Refineries.

May 2001 - Chavez to Promote Third World Unity***CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Leftist President Hugo Chavez is embarking on a three-week journey across Asia to promote Venezuela's economic interests and his vision of a united Third World.

Chavez will visit several countries whose leaders will likely have a sympathetic ear for his uneasiness with what he considers U.S. dominance abroad. He trip starting Sunday takes him to Russia, Iran, China, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Chavez has raised eyebrows in Washington since coming to power. He has maintained a close friendship with Cuban President Fidel Castro has praised China's human rights record, and became the first democratically elected leader to visit Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War.***

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

[lmr]

Yeah, A member class B of the Axis of Weasels... Who cares what beano has to say about anything. He can suck my mucho grande.

[Russell Scott]

You get rid of one devil, and another devil pops up to replace him. At least we can distance ourselves from all these dictators and weasels by telling the UN that Caracas would love to host their headquaters.

[flying Elvis]

Ever notice when a leftist spouts off about what the "people" should control, he/she really means an appointed bureacracy totally unaccountable to any outside forces be they electoral or market?

[FierceDraka]

Chavez had better shut his pie-hole before he finds himself and his wannabe Castrite government in the crosshairs of a few hundred Tomahawks, JDAMS, and a few hundred thousand VERY pissed-off Yankees with rifles.

[MadIvan]

Chavez: Iraq People Should Control Oil

Meaning, in other words, "The Iraqi people should get a swell dictator like me to run things".

He somehow forgot they just had that.

Regards, Ivan

[ChadGore]

Chavez is a little freak.