Chavez: Detente with US “impossible”

[CGowen]

Caracas (Venezuela), April 14: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, threatening to cut off oil shipments to the US if its government supports any efforts to oust him, said that reconciliation with Washington was impossible.

Chavez said a thirst for oil motivated both the US-led invasion of Iraq and a failed 2002 coup against him. The outspoken leader has often accused the US of being behind the coup, and Washington has repeatedly denied the allegation.

"There is no possibility of understanding for our revolution with the government of the United States, with US imperialism," Chavez said during a news conference to mark the fifth anniversary of his return to power two days after the coup.

Chavez also said that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were "a gift for (President) Bush" because they enabled him to wage war.

He did say "coexistence" was possible, but warned: "If there were another aggression against us, there wouldn't be another drop of oil for the United States ... We're prepared for it."


http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=365773&sid=WOR

[Demeter]

1. I Wish He Had Said Bush Regime

I'd like to think that this nation could be run by peaceful, reasonable people who wouldn't feel entitled to sling their political capital in other nations' faces....

[Buzz Clik]

3. Chavez was not referring to the Bush regime. He was talking about US policy.

Our policy of imperialism preceeded Bush, and it will remain after he's gone. Chavez knows this, and anyone paying attention knows that Chavez's stunts won't end in January 2009.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Gee, what would we do without Venezuelan oil?

Buy it on the global market? Wow, that would be a lot of trouble for us. :eyes: