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Chavez says Latin America faces US threat
North America News.Net
Monday 23rd November, 2009 (IANS)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the conciliatory discourse of his US counterpart, Barack Obama, has been just 'a big story' and that an 'imperial counterattack' is under way against Latin American development.
'And Venezuela is the No.1 target on the imperial map on this continent' because the country 'is the epicentre... (of the) socialist, revolutionary' current that has arisen in Latin America, Chavez said in an address Saturday to members of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela, or PSUV.
The president once again cited as examples of the 'imperialist counterattack' in the region the coup in Honduras and the military accord signed between Bogota and Washington allowing US troops to use seven Colombian bases.
The agreement is a 'threat' to the Bolivarian and socialist 'revolution,' and it forms part of Washington's alleged plan to mount 'an attack on Venezuela' using Colombia as a 'stepping stone', Chavez said.
The Venezuelan leader said that a 'big media operation' had been launched to present him as 'the one who is preparing a war' when 'Venezuela is the attacked one' in Washington's plans.
'We're the ones being attacked... but there's an imperial counterattack that in some cases manifests itself openly as in Colombia and Honduras,' Chavez said.
The president has said on several occasions, the most recent of them being Nov 13, that Washington 'is behind the coup in Honduras and... is proving it' when the 'US ambassador... (said) the next government will have to be recognized' after the Nov 29 election.  Email this story to a friend
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** ESTUPIDO **
11-23-09, 05:12 PM |
Chavez says Latin America faces US threat
Cuando se va a callar la boca este idiota con toda su retorica comunista?
Lo que tiene que hace es preocuparse mas por la miseria a la que ha llevado a Venezuela....
Un gran pais con un idiota al mando...!!!!
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waltky
12-26-09, 06:59 AM |
Granny says, Dat’s right - Chavez el Loco...
:mad:
Toyota faces expulsion from Venezuela
December 25, 2009: Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has threatened to expel Japanese carmaker Toyota unless it produces an all-terrain model of 4x4 vehicles used for public transport in poor and rural areas.
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The fiery socialist, in a speech late on Wednesday, also said he would not hesitate to expel and expropriate plants from other Asian and U.S. automobile companies operating in Venezuela if they failed to share technology with locals. “What’s this that Toyota doesn’t want to make the 'rustic' model here?" Chavez said, during a ceremony in Caracas to hand owners the keys to economically produced cars that Venezuela’s government has imported from Argentina.
“We must force them. And if they don’t, then they should leave and we’ll bring another company in ... The Chinese want to come and they make 'rustic' models." During a decade in power, Chavez has nationalized large swathes of the Venezuela economy — including the oil and power sectors — as part of his “21st century revolution” but has so far left car manufacturing relatively untouched. He turned on Toyota, the world’s biggest automaker, when a transporter said there was a scarcity of all-terrain models to serve people in under-privileged areas.
Caracas' poor mainly live in hillside slums, while many rural areas lack decent roads, meaning tough 4x4s are the main means of transport. Chavez ordered his Trade Minister Eduardo Saman to carry out a “severe inspection” of Toyota, and warned other companies they must start sharing technology with Venezuelans.
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