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To: FreedomForAll who wrote (11376)	5/16/2006 7:50:06 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 78421

< The media loves to demonize certain people and Chavez is near the top of the list. With the propaganda campaign waged against Chavez> Well, they're demonizing him in Chile also, FWIW then. dAK

To: FreedomForAll who wrote (11376)	5/16/2006 2:53:25 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78421

Chavez might not be solidly in the US camp, and he may be as unaligned as hell, but he is an oil exporter and he has to be a realist. He is no position to threaten the US in trade or hemisphere alliances so giving voice to any position that is not modifiable is dangerous. But if he wants to maintain OPEC solidarity and be the appropriate devil's advocate to US moves that the predominantly eastern OPEC group no doubt embraces, he has to take the co-incidentally relatively reasonable line that oil price increase would accompany any sort of withdrawl from market by a major exporter. Chavez so far may wish to hold onto power by whatever means the market will bear, but he is no Castro so far. Investment in his country is shaky enough without adverse politics on his part that he needn't be. eC<:-}

To: FreedomForAll who wrote (11376)	5/16/2006 3:42:48 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Respond to of 78421

There is no doubt that Chavez is a loony. I saw him on TV speaking in London. He said that Bush is the biggest genocidal murderer (or words to that effect) in the history of the world. How can you take this guy seriously? My wife has many friends in Venezuela, and our daughter was there recently. Many major roads in Venezuela are in very bad shape, and one artery near Caracas that was damaged in a big storm a couple of years ago is still impassable. Meanwhile Chavez makes grandiose gifts of cheap oil to other countries. He has cancer of the ego.