Fwd: Chavez aids US poor while Bush fiddles

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" NEW YORK - A green Citgo tanker truck chugged up a hill with a grim view

of tenement buildings, elevated subways and treeless sidewalks to deliver

Venezuelan heating oil, a humanitarian gift from Venezuelan President Hugo

Chavez.

 

" Moments before the orange-gloved worker snaked the hose to a Bronx

tenement, Eartha Ferguson, a manager and resident of a low-income

building, said: 'I call it a gift of survival. It comes at a good time, a

very needed time.'

 

" Chavez's gift, which arrived on Tuesday and is being distributed this

week, may be nothing more than a chance to tweak the nose of the Bush

administration, which has long opposed the South American leader. But few

residents in the South Bronx, where 41 percent live on incomes below the

federal poverty line, are inclined to worry about international politics.

 

" Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is controlled by the Venezuelan government,

signed a deal with three Bronx housing nonprofits to sell 5 million

gallons of heating oil at 45 percent below the market rate, an estimated

savings of $4 million. The discounted oil will heat 75 Bronx apartment

buildings, housing 8,000 low-income working poor and elderly tenants. "

 

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