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    Hugo Chavez Says CAFTA Is 'Perverse'

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    Hugo Chavez Says CAFTA Is 'Perverse'
    By JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press Writer
    Sun Jul 31, 6:41 PM ET



    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized a trade deal that eliminates barriers between the United States and Central American countries, calling it a misguided deal that will harm the region's small economies.

    Chavez, a frequent critic of the U.S. government, also said he had read reports of President Bush "putting money in circulation to buy votes and to blackmail, through the so-called (U.S.) intelligence agencies, to approve an initiative which is perverse."

    Chavez did not give other details of his source or the claims, which have been made by some opponents of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The House of Representatives narrowly approved the agreement Thursday in a 217-215 vote, four weeks after the Senate backed the measure.

    The trade deal eliminates barriers between the United States and Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

    Chavez says that is the wrong strategy for small countries with a history of domination by the United States.

    "It would harm the economies and societies much more in our sister Central America," Chavez said during his weekly television and radio show.

    Chavez also responded to criticism by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has said Venezuela's government lobbied against the trade deal.

    "I wouldn't do it because it's not up to me," Chavez said. "It's up to Central American fighters" to oppose such measures.

    Along with his close ally Fidel Castro of Cuba, Chavez has sought to promote a socialist-based trade initiative called the "Bolivarian Alternative."

    So far details of that alternative have yet to be clearly defined, but Chavez's government is offering oil sales under preferential terms to countries across Latin America and the Caribbean.

    Venezuela is the world's No. 5 oil exporter, and its top client remains the United States.

    Chavez, a leftist former army paratrooper who has pledged a "revolution" for Venezuela's poor, has accused the U.S. government of backing plots to overthrow him, and even considering military action against Venezuela. U.S. officials have denied the accusations as ridiculous.
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    Re: Hugo Chavez Says CAFTA Is 'Perverse'

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    Hugo Chavez Says CAFTA Is 'Perverse'
    By JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press Writer
    Sun Jul 31, 6:41 PM ET



    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized a trade deal that eliminates barriers between the United States and Central American countries, calling it a misguided deal that will harm the region's small economies.

    Sixx says: He is right. Hugo Chavez is one of the worlds great soldiers. He trained at the School of the Americas. This is PERVERSE and is going to be a major problem.

    Chavez, a frequent critic of the U.S. government, also said he had read reports of President Bush "putting money in circulation to buy votes and to blackmail, through the so-called (U.S.) intelligence agencies, to approve an initiative which is perverse."

    Chavez did not give other details of his source or the claims, which have been made by some opponents of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The House of Representatives narrowly approved the agreement Thursday in a 217-215 vote, four weeks after the Senate backed the measure.

    The trade deal eliminates barriers between the United States and Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

    Chavez says that is the wrong strategy for small countries with a history of domination by the United States.

    "It would harm the economies and societies much more in our sister Central America," Chavez said during his weekly television and radio show.

    Chavez also responded to criticism by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has said Venezuela's government lobbied against the trade deal.

    "I wouldn't do it because it's not up to me," Chavez said. "It's up to Central American fighters" to oppose such measures.

    Sixx says: And fight they will

    Along with his close ally Fidel Castro of Cuba, Chavez has sought to promote a socialist-based trade initiative called the "Bolivarian Alternative."

    So far details of that alternative have yet to be clearly defined, but Chavez's government is offering oil sales under preferential terms to countries across Latin America and the Caribbean.

    Venezuela is the world's No. 5 oil exporter, and its top client remains the United States.

    Sixx says: Bush is going to get alot of people killed with his silly policies


    Chavez, a leftist former army paratrooper who has pledged a "revolution" for Venezuela's poor, has accused the U.S. government of backing plots to overthrow him, and even considering military action against Venezuela. U.S. officials have denied the accusations as ridiculous.
    Sixx says: Leftist, Rightist, whatever. A man that stands up is worth than millions that won't. The U.S. has been trying to overthrow him since he has been in office. However, it is Bush that needs to be overthrown. He is a maniac.
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    I agree Sixx. These Free Trade agreements are scams to exploit Third World nations which have no labor laws, no minimum wage--none of those pesky problems which are ever so inconvenient for corporate predators. I don't even know what "Right" or "Left" means anymore.

    Yeah NAFTA really helped out the poor people in Mexico over the last decade, didn't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobC
    I agree Sixx. These Free Trade agreements are scams to exploit Third World nations which have no labor laws, no minimum wage--none of those pesky problems which are ever so inconvenient for corporate predators. I don't even know what "Right" or "Left" means anymore.

    Yeah NAFTA really helped out the poor people in Mexico over the last decade, didn't it?
    You are right, brother. That's why Chavez is so ticked. He sees it as a means to put in place "slavery in the Latin American commuinity". You can't coporatize the world. This is a big marble and we can't make people be America.
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    True, this government attempts to intrude in every aspect of the lives of its citizens...government controls, rules and regulations cover hundreds of thousands of pages. Ironic that they so desperately try to legislate 'morality' when they are so obviously without a drop of it themselves. Now they're trying to legislate what happens in neighboring countries.

    What moral government could threaten, spend, coerce an agreement that 85% of its citizens do NOT want?? Where is the morality in causing peoples of countries next door to become little more than eternal slaves for foreign corporations?? What moral government could allow it's country to be overrun by neighboring countries and merely flip off the citizens who are crying out??


    The list goes on, my friends, but I don't have all day to type. You've got my drift.

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