[Paradox]

I know I am going to get slammed for this, but why shouldn't we improve our relations with Venezuela? I was just out driving and Citgo gas is 22 cents lower than everyone else! I've never seen the place so crowded.

One has nothing to do with the other. And as long as Chavez openly and cheerfully supports disgusting dictators like Castro, he can k*ss our *sses.

[lightislife]

Too bad Castro's countrymen love him. Our sanctions against Castro are based on principle. Cuban's remaing in perpetual poverty will not help the spread of ideas and commerce.

[RdhseRat]

"The guy is not Ho Chi Minh, Joe Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, or even Fidel Castro. He is not starving millions of Venezuelan peasents by taking their wheat. Has poverty increased in his country since he took power? Because if it has, no one is reporting it.

He is not stoning women to death and teaching little Venezuelans to be suicide bombers and kill Christians and Jews."

Don't where you are getting your information, but you need new sources!

Chavez IS starving his people. Chavez IS jailing those that oppose him; then he murders them. Chavez IS a tinpot dictator bent on overthrowing governments in SA. Chavez IS the enemy of all people that freedom loving people. Chavez IS aiding the guerrillas in Colombia.

For better info. try: http://www.hacer.org/