GMW: US Should Kill Venezuelan President

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GMW: " US Should Kill Venezuelan President "

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Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:37:29 +0100

 

 

 

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1.US Should Kill Venezuelan President

2.Venezuelans are right to back Chavez

3.Chavez bans GM, cancels Monsanto contract

 

EXCERPTS: " a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. " (item 1)

 

The problem for the Bush administration is Chavez's commitment to using

Venezuela's oil revenues for the benefit the people of Venezuela,

rather than U.S. oil companies and their shareholders. Chavez also banned

genetically modified seeds, which of course, doesn't please Bush's

friends at the Monsanto Corp. (item 2)

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1.Reverend Pat Robertson Says US Should Kill Venezuelan President

 

On Monday's broadcast of " The 700 Club " Robertson said the United

States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

 

Associated Press, 22 Aug 2005

http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=47339

 

Virginia Beach, VA -- The founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network

says the United States should assassinate Venezuela's leftist President

Hugo Chavez.

 

On Monday's broadcast of " The 700 Club, " the Reverend Pat Robertson

said, " We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come

that we exercise that ability. "

 

Chavez, who often expresses strident opposition to US policies and

influence, has spent the last several days in Cuba meeting with the

island's communist leader Fidel Castro.

 

Calling the president of oil-rich Venezuela a threat to US security,

the Reverend Robertson

said assassinating Chavez would be " a whole lot cheaper than starting a

war. " He added, " It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert

operatives do the job and get it over with. "

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2.Venezuelans are right to back Chavez

The Ithaca Journal, Aug 22 2005

http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050822/OPINION03/50\

8220312/1014

 

After reading your recent guest column written by Marshall Stocker

(Venezuela is Cuba all over again, July 15) and taking in comments like

" Venezuela's fascist dictator " and " The Venezuelan revolution is a

disaster. Any other conclusion is delusional " , I had difficulty

believing that

Mr. Stocker was referring to the Venezuela that has made so much

progress bringing health care, education, hope, and dignity to

impoverished

Venezuelans.

 

Hugo Chavez is a very popular leader, who not only won a fair and open

election in 2000 with 59 percent of the vote, but his popularity and

legitimacy were reaffirmed when he won another landslide victory in a

recall vote demanded by the U.S. backed opposition in 2004.

 

Conspicuously absent from Mr. Stocker's opinion piece was any mention

of the fact that President

Chavez was removed from office in 2002 through a coup that was funded

and supported by the Bush

administration. Fortunately, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took

to the streets, demanding and

achieving his return to power. The people of Venezuela and the people

of Cuba enjoy a mutually

rewarding relationship. Cuba purchases Venezuelan oil at reduced

prices, and in return, trains doctors, teachers, and other professionals,

bringing health care and education to impoverished

Venezuelan's who have gone far too long without them.

 

The problem for the Bush administration is Chavez's commitment to using

Venezuela's oil revenues

for the benefit the people of Venezuela, rather than U.S. oil companies

and their shareholders.

Chavez also banned genetically modified seeds, which of course, doesn't

please Bush's friends at the Monsanto Corp. The Venezuelan People have

the right to decide for themselves if Hugo Chavez is

the man they want to move their country forward. So far, they have

spoken very clearly at the ballot

box and in the streets.

 

Henry Hansteen

Enfield

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3.Cultivation of genetically modified crops to be prohibited on

Venezuelan soil

April 21, 2004 (excerpt only)

Bylined to: Jason Tockman, Venezuelanalysis.com

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=17960

 

President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the cultivation of

genetically modified crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil,

possibly

establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic crops in the

Western Hemisphere. Though full details of the administration's policy

on

genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are still forthcoming, the

statement by President Chavez will lead most immediately to the

cancellation

of a contract that Venezuela had negotiated with the

US-based Monsanto Corporation.

 

Before a recent international gathering of supporters in Caracas,

President Chavez admonished genetically engineered crops as contrary to

interests and needs of the nation's farmers and farm workers. He then

zeroed in on Monsanto's plans to plant up to 500,000 acres of transgenic

soybeans in Venezuela. " I ordered an end to the project, " said President

Chavez, upon learning that transgenic crops were involved. " This project

is terminated. "

 

President Chavez emphasized the importance of food sovereignty and

security -- required by the Venezuelan Constitution -- as the basis of his

decision. Instead of allowing Monsanto to grow its transgenic crops,

these fields will be used to plant yuca (an indigenous crop), Chavez

explained. He also announced the creation of a large seed bank

facility to

maintain indigenous seeds for peasants' movements around the world...

 

Read on at http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3307

 

 

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