Supporters Celebrate President Chavez's Return to Venezuela from New York

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Supporters Celebrate President Chavez’s Return to Venezuela from New York

Wednesday, Sep 21, 2005

By: Bernardo Delgado - Venezuelanalysis.com


Chavez was joined by U.S. Congressman Jose Serrano and Venezuela´s Ambassador to the U.S. Bernardo Alvarez at a community gathering in the Bronx, New York.
Credit: Venezuelanalysis.com


Caracas, Venezuela, September 21, 2005—Upon his return from a three-day trip to New York, Venezuela’s President Chavez let himself be celebrated, on Sunday, by supporters in front of Miraflores Presidential Palace, where he declared, “Venezuela is no one’s backyard,” in a reference to a common view in the U.S. that Latin America is the backyard of the U.S.


Chavez went on to outline the accomplishments of his trip to New York and the United Nations, where he held one of the most applauded speeches of all the world leaders that came to address the opening of the 60th General Assembly. In his UN speech, which he gave on Friday, Chavez called for a revolution of the UN, not mere reform. He argued that UN was being dominated by the U.S., which itself was not playing by international rules, such as when it invaded Iraq.

For a while, Chavez was not sure if he should go to the UN summit, he said, because he always felt that such summits are a waste of time. A few years ago, Chavez complained that while world leaders go “from summit to summit, our peoples go from abyss to abyss.”

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Aside from helping solve the problem of the Bronx River’s contamination, Chavez said that Citgo would also become involved in helping people of the Bronx to get free eye operations via “Mission Miracle,” which is to provide operations to North and South Americans in Cuba. Venezuela would help conduct preliminary examinations and would provide transportation to Cuba for the operations.


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[Judi Lynn]

1. Serrano is taking a risk, and more power to him. People should know

the quality of this man _Bush has been trying to destroy.There is absolutely no similarity at any level between the two. None. One is a leader, one is an imposter.

From the article:

Prior to the forum in the community center, Chavez toured the Bronx, where he saw the Bronx River and told Felix Rodriguez, the CEO of the Venezuelan oil company Citgo, to initiate a study of the river to see how it could be cleaned up.
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Another plan Chavez offered, which he had first announced a few weeks ago, was for Citgo to sell heating oil to poor U.S. communities at below-market rates.

Representative Serrano praised Chavez, saying, “This man is much more democratic than some of the people we know of here,” alluding indirectly to President George Bush.
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[1932]

2. In Chavez's DemocracyNow interview, he said there are two superpowers

One is the military might thrown around by the curent US government. The other is American public opinion.

He said he has confidence American public opinion will prevail.

[Melodybe]

3. Nice, I heart Chavez.

[mmonk]

4. He needs to stay a little longer

He creates a great contrast to *, the hurricane disasters and the tax cuts still going through for programs that help people get by.