Go, Chavez! I like the fact that Pat Robertson's terrorist threat
has been folded into the Bush regime's growing clown act.
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Bush faces showdown with Chavez 'the Kid'
By Phil Davison
Published: 04 November 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article324583.ece
If President Bush thought a weekend beach break in Argentina would get him
away from his Washington woes, he is about to be proved wrong. Tens of
thousands of South Americans are descending on Mar del Plata to protest
against the US President.
Can you imagine one of the leaders at the G8 summit slipping out between
sessions, through the security cordon, to join in a street demonstration of
bearded anoraks against the summit's most powerful participant, George
Bush?
Something similar looks like happening today when Mr Bush attends a summit
of 34 western hemisphere leaders - that's everyone in the Americas and the
Caribbean except Fidel Castro, who has long been banned - in the
Argentinian beach resort of Mar del Plata. Mr Bush's latest nemesis, the
Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, dubbed "the new Castro," has said he
will leave the summit in between sessions to take part in an alternative
"People's Summit" and lead, along with the former Argentinian football star
Diego Maradona, a protest march against Mr Bush.
It's a nightmare for the 7,500 police and troops that Argentina has drafted
into the Atlantic resort for the Americas Summit on Friday and Saturday.
Already, US and Venezuelan security agents, armed but in plain clothes, are
mingling with the resort's population.
South America's media are billing it as a Wild West showdown between the
world's would-be Wyatt Earp - President Bush - and the Billy the Kid-style
figure of Mr Chavez. The US President was apparently considering staying
away from the summit until Mr Chavez implied that Mr Bush was afraid to
face him.
Mr Chavez has called the US a "terrorist administration" and accused Mr
Bush of planning to assassinate him and invade Venezuela for its oil. The
fact that the American television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested a
couple of months ago that it would be a good idea to kill him added fuel to
the fire. A Bush spokesman at the time said that Robertson's comments -
though not the idea itself - were "inappropriate".
Mr Bush blames Mr Chavez for trying to export his Castro-style
"revolution". Like Mr Castro, Mr Chavez undoubtedly aspires to do so, but
the fact that five Latin American nations have swung to the left during Mr
Bush's presidency has had more to do with mistrust of the free market and
monetary policies of Washington than Mr Chavez's growing influence.
Mr Bush's late announcement that he would attend the summit suggested he
had thought twice, either for security reasons or through not relishing a
confrontation with Mr Chavez.
Argentinians remain traumatised by two terrorist attacks against Jewish
targets in the early 1990s - the Israeli embassy and a busy community
centre - in which more than 100 died. No one has been convicted but much
evidence pointed to Islamic militants from Iran.
If President Bush thought a weekend beach break in Argentina would get him
away from his Washington woes, he is about to be proved wrong. Tens of
thousands of South Americans are descending on Mar del Plata to protest
against the US President.
Can you imagine one of the leaders at the G8 summit slipping out between
sessions, through the security cordon, to join in a street demonstration of
bearded anoraks against the summit's most powerful participant, George
Bush?
Something similar looks like happening today when Mr Bush attends a summit
of 34 western hemisphere leaders - that's everyone in the Americas and the
Caribbean except Fidel Castro, who has long been banned - in the
Argentinian beach resort of Mar del Plata. Mr Bush's latest nemesis, the
Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, dubbed "the new Castro," has said he
will leave the summit in between sessions to take part in an alternative
"People's Summit" and lead, along with the former Argentinian football star
Diego Maradona, a protest march against Mr Bush.
It's a nightmare for the 7,500 police and troops that Argentina has drafted
into the Atlantic resort for the Americas Summit on Friday and Saturday.
Already, US and Venezuelan security agents, armed but in plain clothes, are
mingling with the resort's population.
South America's media are billing it as a Wild West showdown between the
world's would-be Wyatt Earp - President Bush - and the Billy the Kid-style
figure of Mr Chavez. The US President was apparently considering staying
away from the summit until Mr Chavez implied that Mr Bush was afraid to
face him.
Mr Chavez has called the US a "terrorist administration" and accused Mr
Bush of planning to assassinate him and invade Venezuela for its oil. The
fact that the American television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested a
couple of months ago that it would be a good idea to kill him added fuel to
the fire. A Bush spokesman at the time said that Robertson's comments -
though not the idea itself - were "inappropriate".
Mr Bush blames Mr Chavez for trying to export his Castro-style
"revolution". Like Mr Castro, Mr Chavez undoubtedly aspires to do so, but
the fact that five Latin American nations have swung to the left during Mr
Bush's presidency has had more to do with mistrust of the free market and
monetary policies of Washington than Mr Chavez's growing influence.
Mr Bush's late announcement that he would attend the summit suggested he
had thought twice, either for security reasons or through not relishing a
confrontation with Mr Chavez.
Argentinians remain traumatised by two terrorist attacks against Jewish
targets in the early 1990s - the Israeli embassy and a busy community
centre - in which more than 100 died. No one has been convicted but much
evidence pointed to Islamic militants from Iran.
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