What a bunch of bull. Bush would not intentionally leak such a story to the NYT, true or not. Sounds like State Department hooligans to me.
"Washington is considering a program of destabilizing Venezuela, which could include financing institutions and political groups that oppose Chavez."
Yeah, it worked so well with Castro, and he didn't have massive amounts of oil to sell. Chavez is going to be around for a looong time.
Yeah...Chavez also claims that Condi has dreams about him, LOL! The NY Slimes is feeding Chavez's paranoia. If we wanted to take him out, we would have done so already.