The Hugo Chavez backstory - global politics to help, not harm

look... i don't carry any brief for chavez, but i do find it very interesting that, given the bush administration's zeal in gutting any implied or explicit social contract and their similar fervor in demonizing chavez (who artfully turned the tables on THAT one), chavez steps in to the void...

A day after he called President Bush "the devil" from the podium at the United Nations, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stood at the altar of a Harlem church and presented himself as an angel, offering 100 million gallons of subsidized heating oil to needy Americans.

"It makes us feel good to give," he said to a crowd of mostly Harlem residents and Latin American immigrants waving Venezuelan flags and chanting his name.

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Harlem is the latest place where Venezuelan oil has created warm feelings toward the outspoken leftist leader. Venezuela already exports 1.5 million barrels a day to the United States.

sure, it's blatant politics, but, given a choice, i'd rather see politics played to HELP rather than HARM...

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