Chavez Promotes Cooperation with Europe and Opposition to US in Italy

[callady]

Chavez Promotes Venezuelan Cooperation with Europe and Opposition to US in Italy

Tuesday, Oct 18, 2005

By: Bernardo Delgado - Venezuelanalysis.com

Caracas, Venezuela, October 18, 2005—Following his visit to Spain, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Italy on Sunday, where he blasted the U.S. government’s role in increasing world hunger at the 60th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), had meetings with Italy’s Prime Minister, and spoke at a conference on Latin America.

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The first activity upon Chavez’s arrival in Italy was to visit Monte Sacro, near Rome, where Latin America’s independence hero made a legendary oath 200 years earlier, in 1805, to fight for the independence of Latin America. Monte Sacro has been a symbol for the struggle against repression ever since the 5th Century BC. Echoing Bolivar’s pledge of the time, Chavez said on the mount that Venezuelans, “should not rest their arms nor their souls until we have broken the chains that oppress our people due to the will of the North-American Empire.”

Chavez also said that it is now more necessary than ever for the world to break with capitalism. “We conscious men and women of the earth, who are everyday more, must either change and transcend the capitalist way of life or life will end in one or two hundred years.” As an example of what might happen, Chavez mentioned global warming.

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Chavez reserved his strongest attacks on U.S. foreign policy for his speech at the 60th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. “I accuse the North-American Empire of being the first threat to life on the planet,” said Chavez in a widely applauded speech. “The survival of the human species is in danger,” added Chavez. His audience included President Lula of Brazil, President Nicanor Duarte of Paraguay, and Italy’s President Carlo Ciampi.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1788

[Metta]

1. So, he's upping the ante. Let's see how this plays out.

Any bets?

[brainshrub]

3. He'll be dead by the end of the 2006.

A socialist sitting on oil who actualy helps the poor? That will not stand.

[murray hill farm]

5. I dont think so...he will live!

He is not some third world revolutionary..fighting for the poor in the jungles...he is the head of a powerful and wealthy country..and he is building something even more influencial and powerful than the USA could ever dream to be in the future. I believe he is the leader that will take us all into the future..not just Venezuela..and he will do it right.

[brainshrub]

6. I hope you are right.

[Gronk Groks]

4. We find some disaffected Venezuelan Generalissmo...

...hire a bunch of corporate mercenaries and overthrow yet another democratically elected government. Set up a military dictatorship as bad as Panama under Noreiga and ignore the drugs that stream into this country from his corrupt regime in the interest of "stability".

After all, it takes a criminal mind to set up a criminal empire and we have some of the best right here in the White House.

Then we wonder why South Americans hate the "North American Empire"!!

[Missy M]

2. Why is it that Chavez can see things so clearly and articulate his....

thoughts in such an intelligent way. Sounds like the audience agreed with him. I know the middle class way of life in the US is in danger of ending soon, if the US continues on its current path with the bush administration. Also, the survival of all species is in danger.