Word: chavezes
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...question regarding foreign relations is whether you plan to draw leftist Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, whose oil wealth helped ease Argentina out of its financial crisis, into a closer alliance or create some distance? We have good relations with Venezuela and President Chavez not only because he's helped us with the question of our debt and our energy crisis, but also because of our understanding that he's won his presidential elections with the approval of international observers. Let me reiterate that no one selects Argentina's friends but Argentina. President Kirchner, [Brazilian President] Lula, Chavez...
...Ortega borrowed a jet from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to visit Iran in June. Two months later, Iran and Venezuela pledged $350 million to build a seaport near Monkey Point on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. (Tehran has also been cultivating an alliance with oil-rich Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.) And last Wednesday, the Nicaraguan foreign minister returned from Tehran, where he met with the foreign ministers of Syria, Cuba and Iran. There is now speculation that Nicaragua may support Tehran's bid for a seat in the U.N. Security council...
...wacky bits kept coming. Shortly after the devastating earthquake that leveled the Peruvian city of Pisco, cans of tuna bearing pictures of Chavez and former leftist Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala were handed out as relief aid. The Venezuelan government said it had no idea how the cans got there; state television even interviewed a pro-Chavez artist who bizarrely suggested that the tuna cans were, in fact, a "racist" statement inciting support for the invasion of Iraq. That was too much for the show's moderator, who replied that they were actually no more than tuna cans. Still, this...
...manipulation" by the media was behind the tuna can episode. Then, responding to a critical editorial, the communication ministry devoted an entire press release to calling the New York Times "nothing more than of one the media arms of the Bush government." Lastly, on his own Sunday talk show, Chavez criticized a correspondent from the British newspaper The Guardian for asking a question about term limits. Instead of answering his question, the President rambled on about the evils of the British monarchy and demanded the reporter's opinion on the matter. The reporter noted that he was actually Irish...
...Chavez announcement that most flabbergasted the international media in a month of strange goings-on was his proclamation that Venezuela will move its time zone back by a half hour, starting in the third week of September. The government expects the measure to give Venezuelans a more equitable distribution of sunlight and, in the words of science and technology minister Hector Navarro, help "organize the country and social life in a more rational manner." Upon hearing the proclamation, a U.S. newspaper suggested recent headlines made the Caracas press read like The Onion, and drew comparisons between Venezuela and Woody Allen...