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'Hello? Chavez Here, Imperialists Want Our Oil'
Wed Apr 27,10:35 AM ET
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Telephone callers at Venezuela's oil
ministry are getting the low-down on the country's oil strategy direct
from President Hugo Chavez.
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"What is the reason for the imperialist aggression against our
country? Venezuela is the world's top oil reserve and the world's oil
is running out," the short, repeated recording of a recent Chavez
speech tells phoners as their call is put on hold and transferred
internally.
Chavez, a left-wing nationalist who repeatedly accuses the
"imperialist" United States of plotting to invade Venezuela and seize
its oil, has ordered an overhaul of foreign oil contracts he says are
"looting" the world's No. 5 oil exporter.
In the recording, Chavez does not explain why the United States would
need to invade Venezuela to grab its oil as the South American country
has for years shipped more than half of its oil production to its
northern neighbor. It still does.
Chavez, who frequently accuses
President Bush's administration of trying to topple and kill him, has
warned the United States that "not a drop" of oil will flow north if
Washington tries to harm him or invade the country.
U.S. officials calls these charges "ridiculous," but they describe
Chavez as an anti-U.S. troublemaker and criticize his cozy relation
with Cuba's Fidel Castro.
© 2005 Reuters
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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