Hugo Chavez and the Global Poverty Conspiracy

[Coyotl]

Hugo Chavez and the Global Poverty Conspiracy
Greg Palast's Column = http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/hugo-chavez-and-the-global-poverty-conspiracy

London, February 2002. A tiny, dark and intense woman waited at the end of a lecture until I was alone, brought her face strangely close to mine and whispered, “President Chavez needs you. Right now. To Caracas. Right now. You must come to see him.”

President Who? All I knew about this Hugo Chavez guy was that he was an Latin-American jefe, led a bungled coup and was filled with a lot of populist bullshit and a lot of oil.

And I also knew that no one at BBC Newsnight was going to blow the budget for me to fly to South America to talk about a nation that 92 percent of our viewers couldn’t find on a map and wouldn’t want to.

“Send me an email.”

“There will be a coup .........

[Octafish]

1. ''...March 15.''

EXCERPT...

Chavez gave me information on US military attachés who had met with the plotters. While I couldn’t verify any specific US directive to seize him, I didn’t have to: I had grinning photos of George W Bush’s new US Ambassador, Charles Shapiro, congratulating Chavez’ kidnappers.

Thank you for an outstanding read, coyotl. Palast is TOPS!

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. K&R Excellent as usual. You ever notice how often America's best have to go to other countries

to be heard? It's almost like somebody doesn't want us to know what they're up to.