USA Cannot Criticize Venezuela For Buying Arms
By Inside View America (USA), Section Venezuela
Posted on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 07:08:49 PM PST
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld heavily criticized Venezuela's decision to purchase arms from Russia during an interview while visiting Brazil.
Rumsfeld justifies his position with the fear that such arms could end up in the hands of the FARC, a guerilla group in Colombia seen as a terrorist threat by the American government.
Nice try, but no one is South America is buying it, especially after the U.S. government supported politically and financially a failed coup d'état against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez not long ago.
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President of Venezuela Creates Telesur to Spread his Positions in Latin America
By Inside View America (USA), Section Venezuela
Posted on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 10:23:17 AM PST
After almost being removed from power by a US supported opposition in his country, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez started his own private crusade against the Bush administration. The first step was to diversify Venezuela's oil buyers: he now has China and India in his portfolio. Now he is using a much more creative means: the media.
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