Coordinated? "Chavez says Obama must prove change after handshake"

[masuki bance]

My other http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8385579&mesg_id=8385579">post showed Castro as his bad self, now this. Both on May Day, I smell a rat.

Chavez says Obama must prove change after handshake

17 mins ago

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that Barack Obama must prove he wants to improve ties with South America after the two leaders shook hands at a summit last month.
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"He says he is here to make changes ... this is not about speeches or smiles, it's about realities," said Chavez, who shook hands warmly with Obama at a meeting of leaders from the Americas.

Chavez, who expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela last year, approached Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the summit to discuss restoring normal ties between the two countries. Chavez has proposed sending a new ambassador to Washington.

He said on Friday that Obama must end a trade embargo Washington imposed on communist-ruled Cuba in 1962.

"If President Obama does not dismantle this savage blockade of the Cuban people, then it is all a lie, it will all be a great farce and the U.S. empire will be alive and well, threatening us," Chavez said.
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Chavez also criticized the annual U.S. terrorism report published on Thursday that said his "ideological sympathy" with Colombian guerrilla groups obstructed the fight against terrorism. The report also highlighted what it called lax Venezuelan controls on flights to Iran and Syria.

Chavez has repeatedly denied supporting armed groups in any part of the world.

(Reporting by Fabian Cambero; Editing by Peter Cooney)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090501/pl_nm/us_usa_venezuela;_ylt=A0wNcw9bgftJLW4BrwZZ.3QA

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. It's almost like they marked a date on a calendar like a holiday or something.

:crazy:

[alphafemale]

2. MAYDAY! MAYDAY! nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. I gotta caption that picture...

"Yo, dog. You're better at Pac-Man than I thought, fool."

[Deja Q]

4. Swift move, oh man of great hair and weird lumpy thing on right temple...

:eyes:

Politics is a disgusting game. President Obama seems to be one of the few in power that seems to legitimately want to work with people and decry speculators and other nasty folks... He reaches out to Chavez, who now spins and engages in reverse blackmail... I don't see why our President, Obama, should fall for what is obviously a trap on the part of a coward.

Sorry Chavez lovers, I need more reason to respect him than this incident, which is nothing more than a pompous joke.

Oh, I'm not against lifting embargoes. I am against this attitude Chavez has taken. He lost me. Not sure he ever had me...