Real reason Hugo Chavez is being painted as enemy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David S. Isenberg" <isen () isen com>
Date: August 27, 2005 6:59:18 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks  
<dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: [politics] Real reason Hugo Chavez is being painted as enemy


Dave,
Dewayne,

Here's a story that, if true, deserves a much wider hearing than
the U.S. press is giving it:

Hugo Chavez has been actively been beating the "oil weapon"
into plowshares, according to this article in The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,12716,1555970,00.html

It quotes him saying, "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel  
directly to
poor communities in the United States."  It also reports

> Mr Chávez has set up arrangements with other countries
> for swapping services in exchange for oil. Cuban doctors
> are working in the poorer areas of Venezuela in exchange
> for cheap oil going to Cuba.
>
> Jamaica yesterday became the first Caribbean country to
> reach an agreement with Venezuela for oil at below-market
> terms. The Petrocaribe initiative is a plan to offer oil at
> flexible rates to 13 Caribbean countries. Jamaica will pay
> $40 a barrel, against a market rate of more than $60.

David I
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> From: isen <isen () isen com>
> Date: August 27, 2005 12:32:19 AM EDT
> To: isen () isen com
> Subject: [isen.blog] Turn the other cheek
>
> "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor  
> communities in the United States,"
> Hugo Chavez, democratically elected president of Venezuela, in  
> response to assassination threat by extremist fundamentalist  
> theocrat. Link.
>
> Technorati Tags: Oil
>
>
> --
> Posted by isen to isen.blog at 8/27/2005 12:30:59 AM


>

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