Russia to build nuclear reactor for Chávez - Guardian

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Russia to build nuclear reactor for Chávez
• Deal after surge of activity by Moscow in region
• New foreign policy challenge for Obama

Rory Carroll in Caracas and Luke Harding in Moscow
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 19 2008 00.01 GMT
The Guardian, Wednesday November 19 2008

Russia's deepening strategic partnership with Venezuela
took a dramatic step forward yesterday when it emerged
that Moscow has agreed to build Venezuela's first ever
nuclear reactor.

President Dmitry Medvedev is expected to sign a nuclear
cooperation agreement with his Venezuelan counterpart,
Hugo Chávez, during a visit to Latin America next week,
part of a determined Russian push into the region.

The reactor is to be named after Humberto Fernandez
Moran, a late Venezuelan research scientist and former
science minister, Chávez has announced. It is one of
many accords he hopes to sign while hosting Medvedev
in Caracas next week.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/19/venezuela-russia-nuclear-reactor

[Dhalgren]

1. Good for Venezuela!

I hope that all of South and Central America can make good strong ties and international agreements with allies strong enough to deter US aggression and Imperial thuggery. The only way to keep the US off of Latin American necks is with good, strong international ties - then they can tell the yankee thug to go suck dirt...

[madokie]

2. Well in that vein I say go Hugo

Most of our problems can be traced back to our special spooks fucking things up

[jpak]

3. The Moran Reactor - this is Hugh!!!!111111 Series!!!!111

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[bananas]

4. ROFL!

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