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Caracas, Venezuela (AHN)-After calling the U.S. leader "the devil" at a U.N. speech back in September, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez certainly had plenty to say about President Bush after Tuesday's U.S. election results indicated major changes in Washington. In typical fiery fashion, Chavez, who is three weeks away from Venezuela's December 3 elections and 20 points ahead of his main rival, has been more outspoken than ever, confidently awaiting another term in office. During a speech on Tuesday, Chávez lambasted the Iraqi court's decision to sentence former dictator Saddam Hussein to the death penalty, saying ''If sentencing is to be...

Translation: Chavez: "You are a devil, you smell like sulfur, you are a drunk, you are the demon, you are a dictator, you are an assassin Mr. Devil, you are..." Bush: "Yeah! yeah! everything you say, filler up, boy!"

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday lobbed a litany of insults at U.S. President George W. Bush ranging from "donkey" to "drunkard" in response to a White House report branding the left-wing leader a demagogue. Chavez is one of Bush's fiercest critics and has repeatedly accused the U.S. government of seeking to oust him from the presidency of Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter and a supplier of around 15 percent of U.S. crude imports. "You are a donkey, Mr. Bush," said Chavez, speaking in English on his weekly Sunday broadcast. "You're an alcoholic Mr....

An e-mail is bouncing around the Internet with photographs of alleged Bolivarian gunmen in an area of Caracas that appears to be 23 de Enero. Many appear to be teenagers, they are wearing Bolivarian t-shirts with Che Guevara's face super-imposed on Venezuela's national colors, and they are armed with Glock 9mm semi-automatic handguns. According to Pensamiento Militar Venezolano 2005, a strategic and tactical military defense document drafted under the direction of President Hugo Chávez, the core mission of these armed youths is to turn Caracas into a kill zone where escualidos will be hunted down systematically if the Chávez regime...