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edward
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Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:57 pm |
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A past support rally for Hugo Chavez..2002
San Franciscans Rally In Support Of Hugo Chavez
by Z Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002 at 7:33 PM
12/18:Around 50 protesters gathered at noon at the Venezulean consulate to show support for Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan democratic process
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1552078.php
There are 2 sides to this coin...I just want to be fair... 
That and electronic voteing software produced in venezula..
"with a few bugs in it"..
won the election..
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| edward
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Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:28 pm |
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Tuesday 26th of October 2004 | The largest reserve of fresh water in the world
The importance of the Guaraní aquifer
The importance of the Guaraní aquifer Never before has the importance of the Guaraní aquifer, that enormous reservoir of subterranean drinking water shared by Argentines, Brazilians, Paraguayans and Uruguayans, been more clear. Data provided by the UN, shows that by the years 2020 – 2030, a population of about 8.000.000.000 people, 7.000.000.000 children, women and men, inhabitants of this beautiful and mistreated planet will not have access to this resource.
The report sent by the Pentagon to the US government in February this year, notes that global warming is accelerating and producing devastating effects in the planet, the most important of which is the lack of drinking water in the near future. The report also suggests that the United States should be prepared and ready to seize this strategic resource, wherever it be found, when the moment arrives. It is important to remember that the United States withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol that regulates the emission of the gases responsible for global warming, in 2001, that for the treaty to take effect, it requires the approval of the countries that on the whole are responsible for 70% of that emission, and that, in the Special Conference of Hemispherical Security, celebrated in Monterrey, Mexico, in October 2003, the United States itself refused to sign resolutions relating to the protection of the environment.
15th of September 2004
Water is worth more than gold
Resisting the mining industry in San Juan Since May 24th up to the present, the mining multinational Barrick Gold and the governer of San Juan, José Luis Gioja, have been pushing for the exploitation of mineral deposits in Veladero and Pascua Lama. It is the date of the first assembly of San Juan residents determined to impede the exploitation of their resources, the pollution of their water, to defend their crops and their quality of life which the mining and chemical industry could never offer with their open dynamiting and cocktails of toxins.
And although the protests didn't reach a national level, neither did they pass unseen by the provincial government which was forced to counteract the opinion of a people who demand the freedom to intervene in decisions that involve them and will determine their destiny.
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient-menuext&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fargentina%2Eindymedia%2Eorg%2F
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| edward
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Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:45 am |
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The Real Cuba: is this what Hugo Chavez wants for Venezuela?
http://www.therealcuba.com/index.htm
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In the age of terrorism, the international arms bazaar is alive and well. While George W Bush myopically marches forward in his War on Terror, the rest of the world is quietly arming themselves and taking sides. Last week, America’s "strategic partner" and George W Bush’s soul mate Vladimir Putin inked a $3 billion arms deal with the always-entertaining Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Washington protested feebly as Moscow counted the money.
In a multi-year deal, Venezuela will purchase 24 Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets and 53 military helicopters. In addition, Venezuela will begin manufacturing Kalishnakov rifles under license from Russia. There are also reports that Venezuela plans to purchase surface-to-air missiles and a submarine from Russia in the future. This new deal comes on the heels of a deal signed with Russia last year for 100,000 AK-47s and 10 military helicopters. Like the current deal, the previous deal also faced feeble protests from the United States.
Russia isn’t alone in selling arms to the oil rich South American country. Last year even Spain got in on the act by selling Chavez naval patrol vessels and transport planes for "peaceful purposes". It goes without saying that the United States complained to Spain about the arms sale and was promptly ignored.
http://www.docstrangelove.com/2006/07/30/hugo-and-vladimir-make-a-deal/
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| edward
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MEXICO CITY - Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Sunday for hundreds of thousands of his supporters to erect permanent protest camps to cripple Mexico's capital until a disputed presidential election is decided.
Addressing about a half-million marchers filling the city's historic central plaza and spilling down fashionable Reforma boulevard, Lopez Obrador said, "I propose we stay here permanently until the court resolves this ... That we stay here day and night."
If Lopez Obrador supporters heed his call, blockades could have a catastrophic effect on already chaotic city traffic, hurting downtown commerce.
The leftist asked his followers not to "invade public spaces" and demonstrators said they wouldn't block streets, but Lopez Obrador also apologized in advance for "any inconvenience our movement might cause."
"We will take drastic measures. We will blockade airports, we will take over embassies," marcher Sara Zepeda, 32, said as she pushed her 2-month-old son in a baby carriage.
The former Mexico City mayor finished slightly behind his conservative opponent, ex-Energy Secretary Felipe Calderon, in the July 2 election, and says a vote-by-vote recount will expose fraud that titled the election.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_elections_2
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Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:00 am |
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MEXICO CITY - Hanging protest banners from sculptures and pitching tents in the middle of Mexico City's historic Reforma boulevard, supporters of the country's leftist presidential candidate paralyzed the city's financial district Monday and said they won't leave until the top electoral court rules on their demands for a recount in the disputed race.
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador spent the night in a tent in the city's main Zocalo plaza, where thousands of his supporters joined his fight.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060731/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_elections_6
Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador observes supporters in the main Zocalo plaza ...
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Police on Monday found the body of a woman on a dirt road in this border city made infamous by the killings of more than 100 other young women since 1993.
State prosecutor Flor Rocio Munguia said no arrests have been made in the death of 29-year-old Abigail Rodriguez and the circumstances surrounding her killing were unclear.
Rodriguez, who apparently had been killed by a blow to the head and thrown out of a moving car, was the 14th woman found dead in Juarez so far this year, local authorities said
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060801/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_border_slayings_1
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Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:08 am |
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A look at Fidel Castro's life ..
NAME: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz.
TITLE: President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Commander in Chief of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. World's longest-ruling head of government, and leader of one of the world's last five communist states.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Suspected rebels ambushed an army patrol, exploded a car bomb in the capital and another bomb in Colombia's southwest Monday, killing at least 18 people in a wave of attacks a week before the presidential inauguration.
In one of the bloodiest attacks in recent years, leftist rebels ambushed and nearly wiped out an army patrol in the province of Norte de Santander, close to the border with Venezuela.
The patrol was on its way to investigate reports of an illegal highway checkpoint when the guerrillas struck, killing 15 of the 18 soldiers in the unit, said Gen. Carlos Ospina of the armed forces.
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Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:13 am |
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HAVANA - Fidel Castro, who took control of Cuba in 1959, rebuffed repeated U.S. attempts to oust him and survived communism's demise almost everywhere else, temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul on Monday night because of surgery.
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| Linny1125
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Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:51 am |
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Edward, where are you? In the middle of the encampment? Mercy! Let us know what's really going on down there.
LMT
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106T.shtml
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| edward
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:48 pm |
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At this point this is a good thread for history as Hugo has no plans on stopping his agenda.. 
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| edward
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:38 pm |
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7-Eleven Sends Chavez 'Go To Hell' Message - Drops Venezuela-Backed CITGO
I haven't stopped at a 7 Eleven in years, but I just became their most supportive customer. They can color it anyway they want, but after Chavez's asinine display at the UN, dropping CITGO is perfect timing:
DALLAS (AP) -- 7-Eleven Inc. is dropping Venezuela-backed Citgo as its gasoline supplier after more than 20 years as part of a previously announced plan by the convenience store operator to launch its own brand of fuel.
7-Eleven officials said Wednesday that the company's decision was partly motivated by politics.
http://www.hyscience.com/
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| edward
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Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:48 am |
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he has received warnings from within the White House that the Bush administration is plotting to assassinate him or topple his left-leaning government.
Citing what he said were warnings from an alleged White House informant, Chavez told thousands of supporters at a campaign rally that President Bush has ordered him to be killed before he leaves office in 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us_chavez_4
He never quits with his nonsense..lol
I bet he is good at parties for laughs..
Hugo is running for elections and he hopes to become the permanete president/dictator before long..
He loves to play the "Bush is out to kill me card"..
But really does he look worried to you?
Not a bit
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| edward
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Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:17 am |
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Hugo is a boob man
And I got proof..Look  He left his hand prints..
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061102/481/ade145aa10d845fc8ec7dc4b32de533c
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| edward
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:09 pm |
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I have not posted much but I assure you Hugo has been up to no good for months..
I hope you are all keeping up with the stories in and around south america.
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:43 pm |
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree, a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.
Convening in a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally, lawmakers unanimously gave Chavez sweeping powers to legislate by decree and impose his radical vision of a more egalitarian socialist state.
"Long live the sovereign people! Long live President Hugo Chavez! Long live socialism!" said National Assembly President Cilia Flores as she proclaimed the "enabling law" approved by a show of hands. "Fatherland, socialism or death! We will prevail!"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_chavez
This is scary
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Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:20 pm |
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Meat cuts vanished from Venezuelan supermarkets this week, leaving only unsavory bits like chicken feet, while costly artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar, and many staples sell far above government-fixed prices.
President Hugo Chavez's administration blames the food supply problems on unscrupulous speculators, but industry officials say government price controls that strangle profits are responsible. Authorities on Wednesday raided a warehouse in Caracas and seized seven tons of sugar hoarded by vendors unwilling to market the inventory at the official price.
Major private supermarkets suspended sales of beef earlier this week after one chain was shut down for 48 hours for pricing meat above government-set levels, but an agreement reached with the government on Wednesday night promises to return meat to empty refrigerator shelves.
Shortages have sporadically appeared with items from milk to coffee since early 2003, when Chavez began regulating prices for 400 basic products as a way to counter inflation and protect the poor.
Yet inflation has soared to an accumulated 78 percent in the last four years in an economy awash in petrodollars, and food prices have increased particularly swiftly, creating a widening discrepancy between official prices and the true cost of getting goods to market in Venezuela.
"Shortages have increased significantly as well as violations of price controls," Central Bank director Domingo Maza Zavala told the Venezuelan broadcaster Union Radio on Thursday. "The difference between real market prices and controlled prices is very high."
Most items can still be found, but only by paying a hefty markup at grocery stores or on the black market. A glance at prices in several Caracas supermarkets this week showed milk, ground coffee, cheese and beans selling between 30 percent to 60 percent above regulated prices.
The state runs a nationwide network of subsidized food stores, but in recent months some items have become increasingly hard to find.
At a giant outdoor market held last weekend by the government to address the problems, a street vendor crushed raw sugar cane to sell juice to weary shoppers waiting in line to buy sugar.
"They say there are no shortages, but I'm not finding anything in the stores," grumbled Ana Diaz, a 70-year-old housewife who after eight hours, had managed to fill a bag with chicken, milk, vegetable oil and sugar bought at official prices. "There's a problem somewhere, and it needs to be fixed."
Gonzalo Asuaje, president of the meat processors association Afrigo, said that costs and demand have surged but in four years the government has barely raised the price of beef, which now stands at $1.82 per pound. Simply getting beef to retailers now costs $2.41 per pound without including any markup, he said.
"They want to sell it at the same price the cattle breeder gets for his cow," he said. "It's impossible."
After a meeting with government officials Wednesday, supermarkets association head Luis Rodriguez told the TV channel Globovision that beef and chicken will be available at regulated prices within two to three days. He did not say whether the government would be subsidizing sales or if negotiations on price controls would continue.
The government has urged Venezuelans to refrain from panic buying and is looking to imports to help.
Jorge Alvarado, trade secretary at the Bolivian Embassy in Caracas, told the state news agency that Venezuela's government plans to import 330 tons of Bolivian beef next week, eventually bringing that to 11,000 tons a year. It also plans to import 8,250 tons of beans, chicken, soybeans and cooking oil, Alvarado said.
Government officials dismiss any problems with price controls, while state TV has begun running tickers urging the public to "denounce the hoarders and speculators" through a toll-free phone number.
"The weight of the law will be felt, and we demand punishment," Information Minister Willian Lara said Wednesday.
This idiot wants everyone to work at a loss !!
I guess only Hugo gets the money and Natalee
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| yankee-in-france
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Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:51 pm |
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Thanks for a very interesting overview.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's government clinched the nationalization of Venezuela's largest private electric company Thursday, signing an agreement to buy a controlling stake in Electricidad de Caracas from its U.S.-based owner, AES Corp., for $739 million.
The agreement to pass the company's 82-percent stake in the utility to the Venezuelan government was signed by Paul Hanrahan, president and chief executive of Arlington, Va.-based AES, during a ceremony at the presidential palace in Caracas.
The final contract will be signed Monday, and AES' shares will be transferred to state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, within 30 days, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said.
Venezuela valued EDC at $900 million and will pay AES $739.3 million for its share, Ramirez said.
"We are very satisfied with this agreement. This agreement from our point of view respects the interests of both parties. ... It is an acceptable amount," said Ramirez, who is also president of PDVSA.
AES has invested at least $2.3 billion in EDC since taking control of the company. It paid $1.7 billion for its stake in 2000 and subsequently invested another $600 million in the company, Hanrahan said.
"It wasn't in our plans to part with EDC. It's with a heavy heart that we part with EDC," he said. "It is one of the best utilities in Latin America."But he said AES respected the Venezuelan government's decision to take control of the electricity sector.
"It has been a fair process," he said. "It respected the rights of the investors."
Ramirez said minority shareholders, including employees and retirees of the company, would have "the option to stay with us in the new state company or of course to sell us their shares."
"We are preserving the interest of the minority shareholders," said Ramirez, who signed along with Vice President Jorge Rodriguez on behalf of the government.
The deal marks the first of multiple nationalization moves planned by Chavez since he was re-elected in December pledging to deepen his socialist revolution. The leftist president also plans to nationalize other smaller companies in the electrical sector, oil projects operated by companies like Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp., as well as the country's largest telephone company, CA Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, or CANTV, which is 28.5 percent-owned by New York-based Verizon Communications Inc.
Chavez has called the nationalizations vital to Venezuela's strategic interests, but the moves have alarmed his critics who fear he steering his country toward communism like that of his Cuban mentor, Fidel Castro.
After the signing, Rodriguez appeared to hit back at comments Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who accused Chavez of "destroying his own country" economically and politically.
"We are acquiring Electricidad de Caracas so that the people will be better and so those who say that Venezuela is destroying its economy ... in this case they are receiving a blunt lesson," Rodriguez said. "Venezuela is respectful of the state of law."
Electricidad de Caracas has been privately owned since its founding in 1885 and has some 2,600 employees. It serves 974,000 residential and commercial customers
This translates into this..MO
We at EDC paid 2.3 Billion dollars to make Venezuela's electric company the best in South America and we are blackmailed into selling it for 739 million dollars or lose all of it under Hugo's Total control...As he has already stated any company who does not cooperate will suffer from imminent domain laws set up to strip ownership..For Free
So we are happy to take the 739 million...
Although we have lost out butts.
This is a crime. MO
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela has signed a preliminary agreement to purchase Verizon Communications Inc.'s stake in the country's largest telecommunications company, the latest move by President Hugo Chavez toward nationalizing strategic sectors of the economy.
Telecommunications Minister Jesse Chacon said late Monday the government will pay $572 million for Verizon's 28.5 percent stake in Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, or CANTV, which Chavez has accused of spying on him at the bidding of the United States.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070213/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_nationalization_2
Another lucky winner of the "Sell it to me cheap or I am gonna take it for free Club", Sponsored by Hugo
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| yankee-in-france
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This does not bode well for the people of Venezuela. What is next on the Chavez agenda?
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| yankee-in-france
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Chavez seems to be made from the same political mold as Castro except that he has a penchant for nice clothes and luxuries.
Edward, maybe you can explain, how did he win reelection with 63% of the votes if the guy is hellbent on destroying a country with a treasure of natural resources?
I just read an article today in the NY Times regarding the food shortages and the problems of the grocers.
An excerpt from that article:
“There are competent people in the government who know that Chávez needs to lower spending if he wants to defeat these problems,” Mr. Rodríguez said. “But there are few people in positions of power who are willing to risk telling him what he needs to hear.”
For full article, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2crtek
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I would hate to put my foot in my mouth..BUT
I think Hugo will bring his country under a similar situation as Cuba has had since 1959.
Castro has been listed as one of the richist men in the world.
Yet many of his population lives in poverty...
Castro has little oil if any.
Hugo has oil money income..
Will he do better for his population?
I do not know.
He will be a dictator that part I am sure of.
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Hugo wants to control all of South America..That is his agenda.
HE has people that do not go along with his ideas..Like the president of Chile.
Here is a little somthing I had found that is accurate..
Hugo Chavez likes to play the ladies' man, and frequently includes off-color remarks about women such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in his weekly "Hello President" radio rambles. But his act seems to be wearing a little thin with two of the most powerful females in Latin America: the newly-elected President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet and the frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Peru, Lourdes Flores Nano.
Some leftwing groups had planned celebrations honoring Chavez when he visits Santiago for Bachelet's inauguration. She said, in effect, "Not on my day," and the events were cancelled. Bachelet celarly has no interest in becoming a part of Chavez' unified socialist Latin American state, and let him know on no uncertain terms that Chile is not a client state of Venezuela. There's more here.
Bachelet is joined in this declaration of independence from Caracas by Peruvian Lourdes Flores Nano. While Lourdes Flores acknowledges that she will have to co-exist with Chavez in the region should she be elected, she also declares "major discrepancies" with Chavez, especially on his "vision" for Latin America. Her main competition in the election, Ollanta Humala, is closely allied with Chavez and would be expected to embrace his policy of a state-controlled economy, repression of civil rights and isolation from the United States. Lourdes Flores' response to such a prospect? "Thank God my country has reacted wisely." May Peru continue down this path of wisdom in April.
Gee, I think Chavez better get himself some new lines. These women aren't buying what he's selling.
http://elephantsinacademia.blogspot.com/2006/03/hugo-chavez-is-not-ladies-man.html
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