(with apologies to those who hate aliteration)
Hugo’s on schedule trying to buy Venezuela a seat in the UN Security Council (yet another reason to shut down the UN), and is now visiting China:
Chavez arrived in the Chinese capital on Wednesday with plans to sign agreements to boost China’s investment in oil-rich Venezuela with joint projects in petroleum, telecommunications, farming and railways.
He also proposed an ambitious target plan under which Venezuela — the world’s No. 5 oil exporter — will almost quadruple its sales to China, which wants access to Latin American energy supplies to fuel its booming economy.
At the same time that a Chinese newspaper notes mistrust of the Chavez visit, Chile continues on the path to prosperity by signing free-trade pacts not only with the US, but also with China.
Meanwhile, in Venezuela Accompanied by a donkey, a popular Venezuela comedian on Wednesday signed up as a candidate to challenge Hugo Chavez in presidential elections, and addiitonally, there appears to be a serious candidate for the opposition.
The campaign season promises to be interesting: Venezuela News and Views posts on a chavista coming out of the fascist closet.
(technorati tags Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, China, Chile)
My bet is on the guy on a donkey.
If HUgo doesn’t have him offed, imagine the humiliation of beiong beaten by an ass.
It’s not just Chile, although they’re the country taking the most advantage, having the second largest economy in South America with a whopping 15 million people. It’s frustrating that the so called move the left in South America has really been a slight move to the right(I’ll grant the U.S. media’s observation that Michele Bachelette is female, but pretty much anything else they’ve observed about her I’m not sure who they’ve been looking at).
My spanish is not particularly good (but it is serviceable), and i do pick up a paper from Argentina or Chile on a couple of times a week basis. There is an anti Chaves movement going on, but you never hear that in the U.S. media, it doesn’t serve their purpose.
Completely unrelated, can you check your RSS feed is active, none of my readers can pick it up, and I’ve almost forgotten how to read web sites the normal way.
Tommy,
I don’t have a clue as to how to reactivate the RSS code. I tried doing it myself and you can see the result.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Well I’ll start with the obvious, do this. I’m sure you’ve done that but I just wanna check.
If you’ve done that, and it still doesn’t work, email me, tommy at almostaverage dot com and I’ll look into it.