Venezuela's Chavez calls Bush the devil (UPI 092106 )

Venezuela's Chavez calls Bush the devil
By UPI Staff
United Press International
September 21, 2006

UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lambasted President Bush at the United Nations Wednesday calling him "el diablo" -- the devil.

"The devil lives in this country. Yesterday (Tuesday) the devil came here, right here ... it still smells from sulfur today," said Chavez before an audience of world leaders, some of whom applauded the outspoken Venezuelan leader's remarks.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said he would not react to Chavez's "comic strip approach" to diplomacy. The White House also refused comments on the remarks.

Relations between Caracas and Washington have been tense in recent years. The Bush administration accuses Chavez of trying to promote his brand of socialism throughout the region, while the Venezuelan president alleges the White House played a role in the April 2002 coup attempt that saw Chavez briefly deposed.

Recently Chavez forged an oil drilling agreement with Iran for exploration in Venezuela. He has also fostered close ties to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

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BSRanch Perspective:

You know it takes a Devil to try to devert the name of what he is to another, so if there ever was a devil it is this Chavez. The sad thing is that he has a bunch of support in the UN, and elsewhere, since he received some recoginition when he gave his speach at the UN. It is a sad affair when he is a leader of a country that has major amounts of Oil and he has majaor amounts of money, so he can just give aid to others if he wishes. He gave aid to the people of Katrina, to make Bush look like a fool, in his own country. However the only way that inforamtion came out was through Spike Lee's Documentry of the Katrina Incident. It was a horror story from a great many people of what happend to them and their accounts of what happend. there.

Chaves send fresh water and food down to help those that needed food and water, and he thought that he would make Bush loook like a fool, and that was why he has made the start of his speach he is getting information from the people that live in the Gulf Coast that are effected by the Katrina Incident. The depression in that area still runs deep, one year later and they have not rebuilt anything.

BSRanch