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Chavez accuses US of trying to impose "global dictatorship"
by Open-Publishing - Monday 6 June 20054 comments
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Sunday of trying to impose a "global dictatorship".
He said the US, not Venezuela, should face scrutiny by the Organisation of American States.
"If there is any government that should be monitored by the OAS, then it should be the US government, a government which backs terrorists, invades nations, tramples over its own people, seeks to install a global dictatorship. That should be the government that is monitored," said Chavez.
His latest anti-US outburst reflected the current tense state of relations between Venezuela, the world’s No. 5 oil exporter, and its biggest oil client the United States.
US officials have said they are worried that Chavez’s dominance of his country’s courts, the military and other state institutions, combined with his government’s persecution of political opponents, puts Venezuela’s democracy at risk.
Forum posts
6 June 2005, 18:52
We should more Chavez and less Bush. Go Chavez, tell Bush what the other leaders of the world should tell this abusive country. The Usa has ruined the world. It is the most fascist country ever known. It is a terrorist country.
6 June 2005, 19:20
the last paragraph in the article describes the Bush/republican total control ... and they are abusing, imprisoning and blacklisting many who disagree ... it would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic
6 June 2005, 21:07
Buy your gas at Citgo stations.
All the $ goes to Venezula.
7 June 2005, 10:43
US as global policeman has been documented for years, and now the Chavs have twigged it as well...