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Chavez: "I reject this new aggression by the U.S. empire"

Venezuela's Chavez condemns US report on terrorism

By RACHEL JONES – 3 hours ago

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez on Friday condemned a U.S. report that alleges Venezuela fails to cooperate in fighting terrorism and called on President Barack Obama to end the decades-long trade embargo against Cuba.

Two weeks after Chavez and Obama exchanged smiles and handshakes at a summit in Trinidad and Tobago, the Venezuelan leader called the report "one more slander" that brings into question Obama's pledges of change.

"In the name of the Venezuelan people, I reject this new aggression by the U.S. empire," Chavez said.

The U.S. State Department's 2008 Country Reports on Terrorism criticized Chavez's "ideological sympathy" for leftist rebel groups in Colombia, saying it "limits Venezuelan cooperation with Colombia in combating terrorism." The report issued Thursday also accused the Venezuelan government of failing to systematically police its border with Colombia.

Chavez dismissed the charges, then called on Obama to prove he really wants change by ending the "criminal" embargo against Cuba.

"If Obama doesn't knock down the savage blockade against the Cuban people, it's all a lie. Everything would be a big farce," Chavez said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday acknowledged growing pressure from other Western Hemisphere nations to lift the U.S. freeze on relations with Cuba, but added that Obama would like to see some "reciprocity" from Cuba's leadership after he lifted travel and financial restrictions on Americans with Cuban relatives.

She said the Obama administration aims to turn around policies embraced by former President George W. Bush. She said the attempt to "isolate" Latin America's leftist leaders had enabled them to promote anti-U.S. sentiment while strengthening ties with China, Iran and Russia.

Venezuela's rocky relations with the Bush administration reached a low point last September when Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador and recalled his envoy to Washington.

Clinton noted she discussed with Chavez the possibility of restoring a U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. The Venezuelan leader said following the April summit in Trinidad and Tobago that he would send a new ambassador to Washington.

Despite years of political tensions, Venezuela remains the fourth-largest oil supplier to the United States.

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By tasco66 on May 2, 2009, 09:30 in Venezuela forum.

tasco66 says on May 2, 2009, 09:34:

Maybe it’s time to make Venezuela part of the US Empire…

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

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yummyj says on May 2, 2009, 10:19:

Maybe it's time that the world put their mutual opinion together and destroyed the US empire.

Chavez is over the top and quite extremist, but you HAVE to admire his 'up yours, USA' attitude.

I sure as hell do.

Just because you have been to Colombia, that does NOT mean that you are anywhere near an expert on the place. Sorry. Truth hurts.

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mikeinpuerto says on May 2, 2009, 11:12:

answer me this ... Cuba has trade deals with nearly ever other country in the world . The only one they don't have a deal with is the US .. So why does not Cuba trade with everu other country ...Lots of other countries survive without trading with the US .....so what has gone wrong in Cuna that they cannot trade fairly with other countries...Maybe Cuba should become a free trade zone ..........

Smile and everyone will wonder what they are missing.

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Rocco81 says on May 2, 2009, 11:15:

Yeah the sad thing is that all the poor people in VE believe everything this guy says, even if they get no food no nothing they will continue to blame it on Chavez.

Sic semper tyrannis

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Miguel_Clavo says on May 2, 2009, 12:08:

El Payaso is a turd. Enough Said. =)

RVW orderded me to remove my tagline congratulating the PBH Mods New Golden Boys. Lame.

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Gator says on May 2, 2009, 12:16:

And a self-aggrandizing buffoon.

"Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare" .

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dwmte7 says on May 2, 2009, 12:47:

if we can't acceed him into the empire....the very least we can do is give him a book...............'the empire strikes back'

patriarch

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