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"Castro and Chavez blast US"
news.com.au ^ | 22 August 2005

Posted on 08/21/2005 7:29:51 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CUBAN President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez made a joint television appearance overnight in which Chavez accused Washington of destroying the world.

The two Latin American leaders, wearing olive military uniforms, talked for five hours and 40 minutes in a special broadcast of Chavez' weekly radio and television show, "Hello Mr. President," from Cuba's western Pinar del Rio province.

The two leaders, in the program televised in their respective nations, brushed off US charges that their Governments exercised a destabilising influence in Latin America.

"US imperialism represents the greatest threat weighing on the world," Chavez said, calling the United States the "great destabiliser" and "the destroyer of the world."

Chavez also touted socialism over capitalism.

"Capitalism privatises health care and education," he said. "We are building the socialism of the 21st century."

The Venezuelan leader travelled to Cuba on the weekend to attend the graduation of 1,600 medical students from across Latin America who had studied here for free. Taking a sarcastic tone, Castro told Chavez: "You already know, we cannot make a student study because that would be destabilising, we cannot invite patients to get medical care because that is destabilising."

The pair travelled to the town of Sandino in a jeep with the top down, passing by throngs of people waving Venezuelan and Cuban flags."