Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
Quotes about chavez (16 Quotes)
There are other social factors in Bolivia that are pressing (Morales) to take more rapid action. The relationship that he is building with Chavez and Castro is also forcing him to act with more speed.
We accept the offer in the spirit in which it's been offered, but I don't really see it as any kind of dramatic change. I think it's in part a public relations effort on his part. But we have to take in the context as part of a cycle where some positive things are said, and then some negative, unhelpful things are said. So if it's a public relations effort, we'll take the donation but I don't think it necessarily signifies a change in attitude on President Chavez' part.
While broadcast reporters worried about dangers of foreign firms running American ports, they paid no attention to Chavez and his latest threats to cut off oil to the United States.
In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.
The great masses of the poor in one of the most unequal regions of the world provide a ready audience for Chavez and his populist message. His shadow will thus loom larger than any other over the 10 presidential elections scheduled around the region between now and the end of 2006. There are movements in Latin America that look to him either as a model or as a source of financing or both, ... And there he can exert an enormous amount of influence.
I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
of President Chavez of Venezuela If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it . . . . It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. . . . . Chavez is turning Venezuela into a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism. . . . We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another 200 billion dollar war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator.
Until now everything has depended on Mexico, they took the initiative to attack President Chavez and President Kirchner and then the decision to move the ambassadors,
The Bush Administration calls President Chavez a threat. I agree- he is a threat. A threat to poverty, illiteracy and injustice.
He (Chavez) is popular because he needles the United States and he talks like the average Latin American would talk.
This puts in its place the argument the U. S. government has tried to use against Chavez that he meddles in the affairs of other countries,
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
A lot of intellectuals, middle class and upper class, have been egging him on to run against Chavez. He is one of the few visible figures who has some clout, and he hasn't been afraid to challenge Chavez in the past.
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.