Latin America's New Proxy War
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Washington has gone all-out to stop Ch=E1vez from winning [a Security
Council seat]. He's been personally campaigning for months.
By Jorge G. Casta=F1eda
Newsweek International
Sept. 25, 2006 issue - The summit of nonaligned countries held last
week in Havana was an occasion for all sorts of things: speculating on
Fidel Castro's health, supporting all the "worthwhile" causes in the
world-from Iran's nuclear program to Bolivia's stalled natural-gas
nationalization-and predictably, bashing George W. Bush. This last
contact sport is beginning to give traditional anti-Americanism a bad
name; it is vicious, uninterrupted and, unfortunately, not often easy
to rebut. But the summit also provided a marvelous opportunity for one
of the stars of the show-Venezuela's Hugo Ch=E1vez-to lobby strong
and hard for his cause of the day, getting his country elected as one
of Latin America's two nonpermanent members of the United Nations
Security Council for the 2007-08 term.
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