Why Doesn't Bush Leave Venezuela Alone?

[vengefulcraigie]

Is he that afraid of Hugo Chavez? We have one leader who is using the state's oil profits to aid the poor in his country. God forbid that one Latin American leader should help the poor with better jobs and health care.

I think Dubya Bush should thank Chavez for offering discounted heating oil supplies to the United States. If heating oil prices climb through the roof this winter, the president's poll numbers will slump even further. Chavez was trying to do Bush a favor!!!!

I really think the US will aid the oligarchs with another attempted coup during Bush's second term. I'm afraid for Venezuela.

[Rockfan]

Sad but true dude. Bush isn't afrid of Chavez, what he dosen't want is South America, his back door, turning to to a major left wing strong hold. I myself don't know to much about the situation there but any US backed coup would just add to the long list of American imperialist acts in South America.

[Guerrilla22]

Because the uS doesn't like countries to act counter to what's beneficial to the uS, especially when a country acts counter to the good of the US in its own hemisphere. There have been many instances of US interference in Latin American politics going over a hundred years, and Chavez is hardly the first Latin American leader to be harrassed by Washington, see Arbenz and Allende.

[Rockfan]

As Chomsk said about Cuba, They defied the USA's will for it's shrpre of influence, something like that, same thing apples.

[DeathtoPrejudice]

Because Bush see's something undesirable in the current Venezuala.

That's the most blunt (yum) answer anyone can give.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Venezuela's Elections and Washington's Dirty Tricks (http://freepeoplesmovement.org/fp16k.html)

[bolshevik butcher]

Well this is nothing new. under democratic and republican administrations, especially int hte last 60yrs or so the Americans have been determined to have tight control over Latin America, just look at what happened in Chile and Nicaragua.

They are going to be kept on their toes by the latest trend of leftward leaning anti imperialist leader emergin in Latin America just now.

[Atlas Swallowed]

It is not just Bush, but any presidential adminstration in the US would be against the current government of Venezuela. The US government is a tool of the corporate elite nothing more. Its about empire, any South American nation that does not let corporations exploit their people and loot thier nation is an enemy of the USA.