Chávez gives US headache on a world scale

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Although a presidential election is just three months away, and Mr Chávez is seeking a fresh, six-year term, he has devoted more time to winning Venezuela a seat on the UN Security Council. His adversary, he argues, is the same in both cases: the man he now calls "the devil".

"There are just two candidates(in the December election)," he told supporters at an election rally on Friday: "Hugo Chávez and George 'Devil' Bush."

If the opposition wanted to prove they were not "lackeys of imperialism", he added, they had just one choice: to join the revolution.

Washington is urging support for Guatemala for the non-permanent Security Council seat to be vacated by Argentina next month. Its worries are no longer merely regional. Mr Chávez, for whom Latin America is too small a stage, is now a headache on a world scale.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e579c826-3c7a-11db-9c97-0000779e2340.html

[Jim Sagle]

1. Blowback happens when you try but fail to overthrow a foreign leader.

Duh-bya boots another one.

[Erika]

2. He's offering our poor oil for less than they can buy it here

Seems like he has a social conscience and enjoys jabbing W for not having one.

[135th]

3. Say what you want about Chavez,

he plays politcs very well. Who would have thought that the leader of Venezuela would become such an important global figure?

[Erika]

4. good point n/t

[Matilda]

5. Just when I feel there's not much hope for the world,

up comes Chavez again. He really is the brightest light on the international political stage.

[Ferret Annica]

6. I want him to get this seat

I ant to see him is a position to make the Chimperor squeal like the pig he is.

[David__77]

7. A strongly warranted "headache."

!Viva Presidente Chavez!
!Viva la revolucion bolivariana!
!A la mierda el imperialismo yanqui y diablo Bush!

[Vidar]

8. Bravo Chavez!

[CollegeDUer]

9. What kind of rhetoric does the media use against him?

"Headache on a world scale" -- it's almost childish, designed to make you think ill of Hugo Chavez without any kind of pretense of objective reporting.