Fwd: [LAsolidarity] Chavez expects spirited debate in Argentina meeting with Bush

--- cort greene <cortgreene@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To: lasolidarity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, clnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: "cort greene" <cortgreene@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:27:14 -0500 (EST)
> CC: sect_peace_network@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
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> Subject: [LAsolidarity] Chavez expects spirited debate in Argentina
> meeting
>       with Bush
> 
> 
>  
> Vheadline.com
> Published: Monday, October 31, 2005
> Bylined to: The (Caracas) Daily Journal 
> 
> 
> Chavez expects "spirited debate" in Argentina meeting with G. W.
> Bush
> 
> The (Caracas) Daily Journal: President Hugo Chavez said he expects
> a spirited debate this week as he, US president George W. Bush and
> other leaders meet in Argentina for the Summit of the Americas. 
> 
> The US government?s efforts to revive its proposal for a
> hemisphere-wide ?free trade? zone are doomed to failure, Chavez
> said Sunday during his weekly television and radio program ?Hello
> President.? Chavez has said he looks forward to sitting at the same
> table with his archrival Bush during the summit at the seaside
> resort of Mar del Plata. 
> 
> 
> ?The debate in Mar del Plata will be beautiful. I imagine it will
> be, because the gentleman Bush is going to keep making his point,?
> Chavez said. ?It seems they?re trying to revive the FTAA,? Chavez
> said referring to the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement.
> ?The FTAA is dead.? 
> 
> It will have to be buried. The people of this continent will bury
> it, and another model of integration will emerge.? 
> 
> As Bush attends the summit Friday and Saturday, a separate
> ?People?s Summit? is planned at a nearby stadium, bringing together
> leftist activists, students, indigenous leaders and union leaders. 
> 
> ?In the streets, there is a Latin American fervor. We?ll see each
> other there to defend our model,? Chavez said. 
> 
> Chavez and his close ally Cuba?s Fidel Castro say the US proposal
> of eliminating trade barriers across the Americas would benefit
> large American companies at the expense of poor Latin American and
> Caribbean countries. They have instead proposed a ?Bolivarian
> Alternative? trade pact, or ALBA, based on socialist principles and
> named after South American independence hero Simon Bolivar. ALBA,
> Chavez said, ?has been born and is walking.? 
> 
> Venezuela has also started selling fuel directly from its vast oil
> reserves to Caribbean countries under PetroCaribe -- which offers
> special terms granting low-interest loans and allowing partial
> payment in services and goods such as rice or bananas. 
> 
> ?The debate is clear: those who want to go to hell, who take the
> road of capitalism, neo-liberalism, (and) those like us, the
> majority, who want a better world,? Chavez said. ?We want to look
> for an alternative path, another type of integration.? He said
> capitalism is the greatest cause of unemployment and poverty, and
> that workers across the Americas should unite to search for
> ?another model.? Chavez called out to a crowd of listeners:
> ?Working class, to battle!? 
> 
> The president held his live weekly program at a newly built
> university campus in the eastern city of Maturin. ?Our mission is
> socialist because it puts social aspects first,? Chavez said.
> ?Capitalists put capital first.? 
> 
> Halloween, a ?gringa? custom 
> 
> Chavez? social ?revolution? also extends to the cultural, and he
> urged parents not to dress up their children for Halloween, calling
> it a ?gringa? -- or North American -- custom that has no place in
> Venezuela?s cultural traditions. ?Families go and begin to disguise
> their children as witches,? Chavez said. ?That is contrary to our
> ways.? 
> 
> In recent years it has become common to see Venezuelan parents
> holding parties for children dressed as ghouls, animals and
> witches. 
> 
> In one odd incident a week ago, authorities found more than a dozen
> jack-o?-lanterns left in spots around Caracas bearing
> anti-government messages and what appeared to be bomb-like fuses.
> Police and firefighters removed the pumpkins with caution, though
> the jack-o?-lanterns reportedly bore messages saying they were not
> explosives. 
> 
> 
> Paper skeletons bearing anti-Chavez messages also have appeared in
> spots across Caracas recently, and government officials have blamed
> sectors of the opposition with aiming to create chaos. 
> 
> Chavez did not refer to those incidents in his comments on
> Halloween. But he urged parents to think about whether it was
> appropriate to dress up their children as part of a foreign custom,
> calling it ?the game of terror.? He said that is part of the US
> culture -- ?terrorism, putting fear into other nations, putting
> fear into their own people.?
> 
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