Posted on 06/07/2008 5:49:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he wants to work together with the next U.S. president and that Venezuela and the United States should cooperate to resolve problems including world hunger, energy shortages and climate change.
But Chavez also warned that George W. Bush "will be much more dangerous during the last months that he has left" in the White House, and accused the outgoing U.S. president of attempting to orchestrate his assassination or spur a military rebellion in Venezuela.
"Whoever is the next president of the United States, I'd like start preparing the way to start working together," said Venezuela's socialist leader.
By cooperating, both countries could "help save the world from the food crisis, energy crisis and climate crisis," he added.
Since taking office in 1999, Chavez has emerged as Latin America's most outspoken critic of the United States while forging strong ties with Washington's adversaries, including Syria, Iran and Cuba.
Washington has long seen Chavez as a threat to democracy in Latin America, but some U.S. officials are aiming for a pragmatic approach to diplomacy with Venezuela that would acknowledge political differences while allowing progress in areas like counter-drug cooperation.
Chavez, a former paratroop commander, warned his supporters that U.S. officials and anti-government groups in Venezuela "are trying to create discontent in the military ranks, using retired military officers to make contacts in the barracks to bring about a coup."
The socialist leader has repeatedly accused Washington of trying to overthrow him.
American officials deny trying to oust Chavez.
An opposition supporter holds a poster depicting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez as a ventriloquist in control of a puppet, represented by anti-corruption official Clodovaldo Russian, during a protest in Caracas June 7, 2008. The protest was organized after Clodovaldo Russian unveiled a blacklist that could bar key opposition candidates from running in upcoming elections. In the poster, the puppet asks, "What about the Constitution" and Chavez says, "Keep talking. " REUTERS/Edwin Montilva (VENEZUELA)
Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez greets supporters during a meeting with PSUV United Socialist Party members in Maracaibo June 7, 2008. Chavez on Saturday revoked a law he decreed last month creating four spy agencies and informants' network, saying the measure contained errors. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout (VENEZUELA)
So...has Chavez endorsed Obama yet?
Is this the Farc supporter mouthing off again?
Every time Hugo opens his mouth, he unleashes a larger carbon footprint than Bigfoot.
Chavez seems to think that he is some important figure of an important country instead of a tin hat dick-tater of a turd world hell hole.............
However, if he is not squashed pretty soon, he will position himself.......for in the political world image percieved is image achieved.
From National Public Radio (NPR):
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764
From the Russian News and Information Agency:
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
´´By cooperating, both countries could “help save the world from the food crisis, energy crisis and climate crisis,” he added¨.´´
And when this cooperation doesn’t happen, he can blame the US again.
Let's check ON THE INTERNET:
COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "ABOUT BOUT & THE DEA" by Aaron Mannes (BLOG ENTRY SNIPPET: "The recently unsealed indictment of arms-trafficker extraordinaire Victor Bout is an interesting read. Perhaps the most notable line is on page 10, when Bout told the DEA operatives (who he believed represented the FARC) that America was also his enemy and their fight was his fight. Another international arms dealer, Monzar al-Kasser, who was arrested in a DEA sting, promised the informants to raise an army for the FARC in order to fight the Americans.") (May 9, 2008, 05:05 pm)
RECAP:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021763/posts
“Obama Obfuscates on Chavez & FARC”
RCP ^ | May 27th, 2008 | Jack Kelly
Posted on May 26, 2008 9:30:47 PM PDT by The_Republican
Translation: "Please don't bomb my good buddies in Iran, Mr. President!"
Keeping up with Imanutjob.
Hugo Chavez on "climate change":
"The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet."
"I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don't think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, 'tomorrow could be too late, let's do now what we need to do'."
"I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet."
--Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/640/640p16.htm
Dangerous? Chevy, you ain’t seen dangerous yet! Keep opening your yap.
Dream on loser.
“President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he wants to work together with the next U.S. president”.....
Work?....Hell, if it’s the Obamster he can sit in his lap!
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