By Saul Hudson
Reuters 17 Feb 06 Washington wants to curb Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's anti-American influence by lobbying allies to try to expose any anti-democratic policies, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
The United States has tried different strategies to counter Chavez, ranging from confronting him to ducking a fight. In what she termed an "inoculation" strategy, Rice said she had sought support from Europe and other Latin American nations to highlight U.S. charges that the populist Chavez abuses his power to target political opponents and business leaders. Comment: Want to know what is really happening in Venezuela and WHY Condi is so annoyed?
Good Things Happening in Venezuela |
By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER
Associated Press 17 Feb 06 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on Friday he could cut off oil exports to the United States if Washington goes "over the line" in what he has said are attempts to destabilize his left-leaning government.
Chavez made his threat a day after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the Venezuelan government posed "one of the biggest problems" in the region and that its ties to Cuba were "particularly dangerous" to democracy in Latin America. "The government of the United States should know that if they go over the line, they are not going to have Venezuelan oil," Chavez said. |
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