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  • Chávez builds base with grass-roots circles in U.S.

    11/21/2005 2:06:58 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 67 replies · 1,355+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | November 21, 2005 | PABLO BACHELET pbachelet@herald.com
    WASHINGTON - Miami's Jesús Soto supports Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's vision of ''participatory democracy.'' Valerie Pusch of Chicago backs Chávez because of his policies on behalf of the poor. And they say so loudly, as heads of their local Bolivarian Circles -- among the dozen or so U.S. copies of the groups Chávez has set up throughout his country to mobilize Venezuelans on behalf of his socialist ``revolution.'' Even as Chávez attacks President Bush as his sworn nemesis, his government is running a strong campaign to curry favor with U.S. citizens through leftist grass-roots groups, paid lobbyists and public relations...
  • FARC & Venezuela's Chavez: divorce ahead?

    01/04/2005 5:47:15 AM PST · by alekboyd · 2 replies · 483+ views
    Vcrisis ^ | 04.01.05 | Aleksander Boyd
    London 04.01.05 | My astonishment with respect to the arrest of FARC leader Ricardo Granda in Caracas continues to grow, not because Granda was in Caracas as a guest of honour of Hugo Chavez but rather due to the outlandish nerve of the FARC in condemning Chavez via public communiqués. Mind you what sort of moral stance a bunch of assassins have to be claiming anything to anyone? Their rights to claim were forfeited the moment they decided to start killing innocent peasants to achieve whatever goal they set out to reach. What's more, according to UN reports 1 million...