Venezuela Leader Blasts U.S. Report

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President Hugo Chavez rejected a U.S. government report accusing Venezuela of funding efforts by Cuba's Fidel Castro to subvert democracy in Latin America, saying it indicated Washington's aggressive intentions toward Havana.

``They've launched what I consider a new imperialist threat,'' Chavez said Tuesday in a televised speech. ``They've publicized a plan of transition, they think Fidel is going to die.''

``This is what I say to U.S. imperialism: Now is when Venezuela will support the Cuban revolution,'' Chavez added. ``Long live Fidel - brother, comrade and partner!''

Chavez was responding to Monday's release of a report by the Presidential Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba that accused Havana of forestalling a transition to democracy in the communist country and charged that Chavez is using Venezuela's vast oil revenues to prop up Castro.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5945551,00.html

[Fridays Child]

1. Chavez doesn't miss a lick.

Viva Chavez!

[DELUSIONAL]

2. He is much smarter than bush --

and the truth hurts. Meaning the names he calls the bush gang hold a lot of truth.

[Up2Late]

3. What's the point of this report? Does out "government" think most of us...

...are gonna buy what they are selling?

[oasis]

4. Buzz off Chavez, It's Bushco's job to subvert democracy.

:spank: Bad Hugo.

[Barkley]

5. I'll still take Havana over Gitmo anyday!

this what has really got Bush/ US Govt upset:

"The axis that will be formed with this pipe ... should
be like a central nerve for the integration of Colombia
and Venezuela."

- Hugo Chavez

"Venezuela, Colombia, start building gas pipeline"

The pipeline, expected to be completed by next March, will send around 150 million cubic feet per day of gas from the Punta Ballenas fields in Colombia to the chronically gas-deficient areas of western Venezuela.

Panamanian President Martin Torrijos was also present at the ceremony

http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2006-07-08T193117Z_01