Chavez: Our oil reserve does not belong to Mr. Bush (AP)

[cthrumatrix]

Chavez: Our oil reserve does not belong to Mr. Bush
by AP


BANGALORE - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday accused the United States of planning to portray his country as a security threat in order to capture its vast oil reserves.

"We are just waiting for the United States to announce next that Venezuela has weapons of mass destruction," Chavez said in a speech in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

Chavez - who has repeatedly accused U.S. President George W. Bush of plotting to assassinate him, a charge Washington denies - said U.S. officials have called him "a threat" and a "destabilizing force" because they want an excuse to gain control over Venezuelan oil reserves.

"The United States government would very much like to keep all our oil for itself," Chavez said. "But our oil reserve does not belong to Mr. Bush. The oil belongs to the Venezuelan people."

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http://www.energybulletin.net/4656.html

[paineinthearse]

1. Interesting how the MSM has buried this

Your source is Bangalore. I googled "portray his country as a security threat in order to capture its vast oil reserves" and got ONE hit, the Turkish Daily News.

Even though this is Associated Press, according to google, not one US outlet has picked it up.

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http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=7704

Chavez: Our oil reserve does not belong to Mr. Bush
Tuesday, March 8, 2005

BANGALORE - The Associated Press


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday accused the United States of planning to portray his country as a security threat in order to capture its vast oil reserves. "We are just waiting for the United States to announce next that Venezuela has weapons of mass destruction," Chavez said in a speech in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

Chavez - who has repeatedly accused U.S. President George W. Bush of plotting to assassinate him, a charge Washington denies - said U.S. officials have called him "a threat" and a "destabilizing force" because they want an excuse to gain control over Venezuelan oil reserves. "The United States government would very much like to keep all our oil for itself," Chavez said. "But our oil reserve does not belong to Mr. Bush. The oil belongs to the Venezuelan people."

On the first-ever visit to India by a Venezuelan leader, Chavez has criticized the United States throughout his four-day sojourn. The former paratrooper also took a shot at Washington over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. "They went to Iraq thinking they will control Iraq's oil reserves ... but I doubt very much they will ever control that country," he said.

Relations between the United States and Venezuela have deteriorated steadily since Chavez took office in February 1999. The self-proclaimed "revolutionary" maintains close ties with Cuba's Fidel Castro. On Friday, Chavez said his country would cut off oil supplies to the United States if Washington tries to "hurt" his country. "We want to supply oil to the United States... (But) if there is any aggression, there will be no oil," he warned.

[Renew Deal]

15. Nice catch

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

23. To be fair...

... that turkish website is the only place where it shows up. It 's not as if everyone were reporting on this and it were only being ignored in the US.

Weird for me to find myself in the position of defending the US press, after what I wrote about them yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1282121&mesg_id=1291023

[AP]

27. MSM isn't reporting this story because it's not the "we will bury you"/

pounding the shoe on the desk sort of characature of Chavez the MSM likes.

That's my guess anyway.

[bluestateguy]

2. I like this guy

Do I agree with everything he's done? No. But he's a man of the people and he doesn't take his orders from the State Department.

[Toots]

22. What has he done that you don't agree with if I might ask?

It seems the people of his country overwhelmingly like him.

[Nikepallas]

3. Good for Chavez! He has the guts to say exactly what BUSHCO wants

and is really going out for and at least the idea needs to be examine.

[Skidmore]

4. There was a Republican caller on Washington Journal a few minutes ago

who said she wanted * to focus on this hemisphere, particularly Venezuela, because there are dictators coming back in this area of the world. And did the host know that "those people went on strike and nothing was done about it--the whole country went on strike". She indicated that "we can't have that" and we need to help those people get rid of their dictator. In addition, she added the grace note of "I heard that Venezuela supplies 1/5th of the world's oil."

Oil is freedom, folks.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. She must have forgot about the election

which Chavez recently won. And all the other elections he previously won.

[robbedvoter]

8. But those elections were not certified by Diebold, Checkpoint - so

they don't matter.

[rodeodance]

20. yup ones of those freedom for people elections that Bush talks up all the

time. What a dipstick!! a Fox TV fan no doubt.

[AP]

7. Where were these people in the 70s and 80s when they actually had dic-

tators in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, etc. etc.?

Perhaps these people are in a time warp? History is like a wave and the ripple took twenty years to reach whatever right wing think tank where this person has a cubicle.

[DBoon]

37. Having dinner parties with them

as noble defenders of western civilization against evil soviet communism.

What was that margaret thatcher quote anout pinochet being a fine gentleman to have tea with?

[Nikepallas]

25. Sorry I smell a BUSHCO poop job..OOPS propaganda job.

[Say_What]

28. VenGusano caller--the only *dictators* in LatAm were US-installed

but most indoctrinated meriKans don't know that--they all suffer from America's Amnesia.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. What could have given Chavez such a craaaaazy idea?

Trying to assasinate him? The US administration only organized a coup that briefly unseated him, and supported coup plotters who surely would have killed him, had not the people of Venezuela put an end to it. He must be wacky...:eyes:

[GiovanniC]

9. That's Just Absurd. Absurd I Say!

[Say_What]

29. Not to mention 30 major US-backed coups since 1945 in LatAm

welcome to DU, alcibiades_mystery!! :hi:

[Betsy Ross]

10. Does this mean we will forget Iran and invade Venezuela? n/t

[mmonk]

11. I don't think we forget,

it's just realizing there's alot of work to do to create an economic empire through force.

[Mari333]

17. Yes, lets send the boy scouts to invade

the rest of our military is overworked and underpaid in other wars..
and there arent any soldiers left.

[tinonedown]

12. Chavez disbanded all labor unions in 2000

And is a price hawk, driving up oil prices for profit. What a hack.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. Heh.

Regardless of my rather mixed feelings on his policies, I definitely have to agree that he likes seeing his name in the papers. :)

[Dhalgren]

18. He was elected (more than once) by the Venezuelan people.

He is strongly supported by a sizable majority of his people. If he's a "hack" (which I don't think so), then he's their hack, not yours. So what's it to you?

[cthrumatrix]

21. he was "democratically elected"...don't you like "freedom"???????

[AP]

26. Both those claims are false.

There are still labor unions in VZ. The ones that side with management and are run by right wingers organized the strikes in 2003.

Here at DU a few months ago, there were articles posted in which Chavez criticized the high price of oil, blaming it on chaos caused by the US in the ME. He said that the days of cheap oil are over, especially for VZ because they're tapped out of light crude and now only have the more expensive-to-process heavy crude, and because there's more demand from developing nations. But he does say that OPEC nations believe that a good balance between profits and the need to make sure that developing economies can actually develop would be at about (IIRC) $40pb.

[Say_What]

31. BWAHAHAHAHAHA---TOTAL BULLSH*T!!!

:spank:

[redqueen]

36. Riiiiiiiiiight...

Share some more of your insight into his character, please!

[leesa]

13. I just love this guy. I hope he keeps telling the truth

loud and clear. It is the only way he will stay alive.

[Renew Deal]

16. Matches up with what Yoshida was saying the other day

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3232124&mesg_id=3232124

[progressivedude]

19. I am loving this man more and more.

thank god we have some real opposition in the world

[adigal]

24. I guess we will have to show President Chavez, won't we??

How dare he think his oil belongs to his people??? We in the US take whatever we want. (snark)

[Dover]

30. "Mister Bush"..................lol!

I know how hard it is to form the word "president" and "bush" in the same sentence. Something about it just doesn't ring true and leaves a bad after taste.

[RPM]

32. all your oil are belong to us....

at least i hear that's **'s mantra

[Say_What]

33. Anyone who is familiar with the Chilean coup in 1973 will see similarities

in what the US has been trying to do in Venezuela since before the failed coup in 2002. Destabilize the unions, control the media, supply endless funds to *opposition*, and then paint the democratically elected leader as a *demonic dictator*, or like CondiKrunt recently said, "a destabilizing effect on LatAm". It's the same old US cookie cutter style methods that they've used around the globe for decades when a leader won't kowtow to Washington. :puke:

[bemildred]

35. They haven't come up with any new tricks in 100 years. nt

[Beacho]

34. All Your OIl Reserves Are Belong to Us!

How are you Chavez?

You are on your way to destruction, make your time!

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

(I am so sorry, I just couldn't help myself)