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Chavez Has US Running
Scared Over Rise Of Left
By Jeremy McDermott
Latin America Correspondent
The Telegraph - UK
4-29-5

America is showing increasing signs of alarm at the influence of Hugo Chavez, the firebrand Leftist president of Venezuela who has eclipsed Fidel Castro as Washington's regional bogeyman.

The United States, obsessed with the Middle East for the past three years, has let Latin America drift to the Left, leaving Washington with almost no allies in its own back yard.

Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, yesterday visited Colombia, the last steadfast ally of the US in South America after Ecuador's Lucio Gutierrez was driven from power last week.

She promised that US aid would continue at present levels of some £400 million a year, despite the fact that the war on drugs has stalled and Marxist guerrillas have a launched a series of attacks that have wrong-footed the US-backed military.

After a polite rebuttal in Brazil, Miss Rice has received support only from Colombia during her tour of Latin America - designed to isolate Mr Chavez. "It is well known that we have worries about the activities of the Venezuelan government in this region, destabilising activities, and internal activities that raise doubts about her democracy," she said.

One source of tension is Mr Chavez's recent arms deals including one with Russia for 100,000 new AK assault rifles.

Jorge Alberto Uribe, the Colombian defence minister, said the arms deals "deepened the military unbalance in the Andean region".

The Colombian military has long asserted that Mr Chavez backs the powerful Marxist rebels in their 41-year war.

He responded by calling Mr Uribe "a pawn of the empire" who was "spouting what the lady wanted to hear."

Mr Chavez has his own riposte to the Rice tour. Yesterday he visited Havana to sign agreements knitting his oil-rich country with Cuba's faltering economy.

While Presidents Chavez and Castro are rabidly anti-American, there is a second tier of Latin leaders who reject "meddling" and want to see US influence diminished.

This stems primarily from the failure of free market policies exported by Washington to alleviate poverty levels and redistribute wealth.

An Inter-American Development Bank study said Latin America had the most unequal distribution of resources in the world with 20 per cent of the population controlling more than 60 per cent of the wealth.

This is one of the reasons that a wave of Left-leaning leaders has been elected in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela and Uruguay, while US-friendly leaders have been deposed in Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia.

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Those loyal to the ousted rulers will more than likely find their way here a la Cuba,Nicaragua,El Salvador,Guatemala,etc.

another good argument for bringing all the troops home and sealing the borders.

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

another good argument for bringing all the troops home and sealing the borders.

More bad new-homeless shelters in Northern California are already seeing a large influx of recent veterans of the war in Iraq and Aghanistan in their shelters.

begining to sound a lot like Vietnam era returnees I am sad to say.

beginning to look like it too.