Chavez tells Peru leader: 'You're so like Bush'

[donsu]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-13T195340Z_01_DIT371609_RTRUKOC_0_US-VENEZUELA-PERU.xml&archived=False

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday branded his Peruvian counterpart a copycat of U.S. President George W. Bush as the two South American leaders traded barbs in a diplomatic spat.

Lima recalled its ambassador to Caracas last week to protest Venezuelan meddling in its domestic affairs after Chavez met with Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala and said he supported his nationalist proposals.

This week, after Chavez criticized a second, more conservative candidate in Peru's April elections, President Alejandro Toledo blasted Chavez on local radio for trying to destabilize the region, an echo of Washington's portrayal of the socialist leader as a threat to stability.

"My friend Toledo reminded me of the song that goes 'You are so like Bush, you can't trick me,'" Chavez said, briefly breaking out in song as he addressed the National Assembly in a state-of-the-nation speech.
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love that Chavez

[sasha031]

1. sounds like he has a wonderful personality

:)

[freeplessinseattle]

2. I want that CD!

lol, now "Bush" has become an int'l insult, how appropiate.

[Cha]

5. My son bought a tee-shirt

on the road side in Thailand that has a picture of a girl in bikini that says "Good bush"..and a picture of our esteemed monkey that says "Bad bush".

I said it's a good thing you didn't wear it on the airplane and he said he didn't think Japan Air would care. :)

[glitch]

3. Ouch. Now that's just mean.

Probably appropriate though.

[Terran1212]

4. A little too harsh, Hugo!

That's a really mean insult! ; )