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Venezuela's Chavez to visit North Korea, Iran
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 6/11/06 | Reuters

Posted on 06/11/2006 8:33:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday that he will visit Iran and North Korea, two nations at odds with Washington over nuclear development, at a time when Chavez is seeking to distance Venezuela from the United States.

Chavez, who has promised a socialist revolution to end poverty in the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, has drawn fire from the State Department for building alliances with U.S. foes like Cuba and Iran.

"We will soon be in North Korea, we will soon be in Tehran, deepening our ... strategic alliances," Chavez said during his weekly Sunday broadcast.

He said the tour will also include stops in China and Russia, where Venezuela will sign military cooperation agreements with the Russian government, following U.S. moves to block Chavez's arms purchases from other countries.

He did not provide dates for the trip, which he said will include a stop in "North Vietnam."

The State Department last month added Venezuela to a list of nations not cooperating in the fight on terrorism and has repeatedly accused Chavez of supporting leftist guerrillas in neighboring Colombia, though there has been no clear evidence to support this claim.

The U.S. government in January blocked sales of Spanish military planes and ships to Venezuela by refusing Spain an export license for the U.S. technology used in the vessels.

Chavez has aggressively supported Iran's efforts to develop nuclear technology, and has helped undermine the U.S. embargo of Cuba by increasing trade and providing oil on favorable terms.

He drew State Department criticism in 2000 by visiting former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as part of a tour to strengthen the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Last month, he took a Venezuelan delegation to England, Italy, Austria, Libya, and Algeria.

The leftist former paratrooper, who has hurled insults like "donkey" and "assassin" at President Bush, is up for re-election in December.

He is widely expected to win after building up popular support through multibillion-dollar social investment projects financed by oil revenues.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiamericanaxis; chavez; coldwar2; communism; geopolitics; hugoping; iran; latinamerica; northkorea; venezuela; visit
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To: LeoWindhorse
Who cares what the world thinks.

A good test for the F-22.

21 posted on 06/11/2006 9:15:02 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
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To: Mike Darancette

just drop in behind and slip one to him....end of problem.


22 posted on 06/11/2006 9:24:07 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: NormsRevenge

While he is out of country our folks in the shadows could stir up a coup while he is visiting his good friends abroad. It almost worked once before. Now is the time.


23 posted on 06/11/2006 9:43:32 PM PDT by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by there fruity little club.)
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To: soccer_maniac

It scares me: I don't like seeing our enemies congeal.


24 posted on 06/11/2006 9:46:18 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: monkapotamus

Will Cindy be in tow?


25 posted on 06/11/2006 10:22:57 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: NormsRevenge
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday that he will visit Iran and North Korea

Y'know although air travel is very reliable today but you can never predict sudden mechanical or air trouble :-)

26 posted on 06/11/2006 10:44:45 PM PDT by prophetic
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To: soccer_maniac

Chavez=Media Orgasm.


27 posted on 06/11/2006 11:29:45 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Hmmm, just when you think it's safe to fly through the Bermuda Triangle...just damn!


28 posted on 06/11/2006 11:30:59 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: MissouriConservative

VENCEREMOS...let the Basard (HdP) stay in either place that has the stomach...


29 posted on 06/12/2006 3:02:51 AM PDT by Gunny P (Gunny P)
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To: jazusamo; Hill of Tara; Victoria Delsoul; Army Air Corps; Thunder90; monkeywrench; cll; penowa; ...
Chavez, who has promised a socialist revolution to end poverty in the world's fifth-largest oil exporter

ROFLMAO!



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30 posted on 06/12/2006 11:39:56 AM PDT by proud_yank (Truth to liberals is as useful as a snowblower in hell.)
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To: Westlander

He's taking Jimmy Carter, Hillary Klinton, BJ Clinton, Chappy Kennedy, Hanoi Kerry, Foamingatthemouth Gore, Murtha, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Leahy, Bill Nelson (D-FL), Jesse Jackson, Barbie Streisand, Ward Churchill, HOWeird Dean, Patrick Kennedy, Boxer, Feinstein, Susan Collins (RINO-ME), Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME), Lincoln Chaffee (RINO-RI), Rockefeller, Plame, Wilson, ETC.


31 posted on 06/12/2006 11:50:03 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: NormsRevenge; proud_yank

You know, these sorts of "strategic alliances" and leagues have almost always led to massive or even global wars.


32 posted on 06/12/2006 12:39:34 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: NormsRevenge

FARC SHILL

33 posted on 06/12/2006 12:40:57 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: proud_yank

But remember that our "Friends" in Russia and China condone Chavez's behavor and the behavior of North Korea and Iran by selling them weapons and giving military aid.


34 posted on 06/12/2006 4:10:03 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: proud_yank; Army Air Corps
Chavez has aggressively supported Iran's efforts to develop nuclear technology, and has helped undermine the U.S. embargo of Cuba by increasing trade and providing oil on favorable terms.

Don't you get the feeling he's trying to pick a fight with us?

35 posted on 06/12/2006 6:58:49 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

I think that El Gordo is suffering from insufficient oxygen supply to the brain - kinda like Algore. Chavez believes his own delsions and propoganda as do other swaggering tin-plated dictators with delsions of godhood. Let's see how tough El Gordo is during the next coup - I'll wager that he'll wet himslef as he cowers in a closet. He is a just a swaggering bully who will bluster until someone, anyone, calls his bluff.


36 posted on 06/12/2006 8:09:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
LOL! I think the term "El Gordo" is very fitting.

Good to see ya, AAC.

37 posted on 06/12/2006 8:16:00 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

"I think the term "El Gordo" is very fitting."

It was either that or "Jowel Boy". The sad part of all this is that the very people who the Left believes are liberated, the poor, are the ones who will suffer most. It is the poor who cannot escape the regime nor afford to pay the bribes upon which such a despostic system operates. The poor will suffer the exploitation, suffering, butchery, "reeducation camps", and other humilliations. In short, the people of Venezuela are screwed until this dips**t goes off to meet Zarqawi, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler in the seventh circle of hell.


38 posted on 06/12/2006 8:25:13 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Westlander

"Will Cindy be in tow?"

She has probably started stalking him on MySpace already...


39 posted on 06/12/2006 8:27:53 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

That's why tyrants and dictators love to keep their people ignorant.


40 posted on 06/12/2006 8:28:03 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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