It's been a long time since an update here at Hugo Chavez Watch, but fortunately Chavez keeps making the news waves.
Chavez has said there is no possibility of diplomatic understanding between him and the United States. Does this extend to a Washington ruled by Democrats? My instinct says it does, because none but the most left-wing Democrats will make moves to "spread the revolution," as Chavez would put it.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, threatening to cut off oil shipments to the U.S. if its government supports any efforts to oust him, said that reconciliation with Washington was impossible.
Chavez said a thirst for oil motivated both the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and a failed 2002 coup against him. The outspoken leader has often accused the U.S. of being behind the coup, and Washington has repeatedly denied the allegation.
A young supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez cheers as she waves a flag reading in Spanish "The people are still in the streets, now on the path to socialism" outside Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Friday, April 13, 2007, during a rally to celebrate the fifth year anniversary of Chavez's return to power after a coup that briefly toppled him in 2002.
"There is no possibility of understanding for our revolution with the government of the United States, with U.S. imperialism," Chavez said during a news conference to mark the fifth anniversary of his return to power two days after the coup.
