Is Venezuela wagging a war against the US?

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Is Venezuela wagging a war against the US?

No! Hugo is just a proletarian attempting to unite his country and wrest control from the evil bourgeois.
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Hey who cares, its not like 47% of their population lives in poverty, they have 12% unemployment and they provide 8% world’s oil.
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musashi
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Is Venezuela wagging a war against the US?

Post by musashi »

Hugo Chavez has launched several political snubs against the US. He’s called the President a devil at the UN. He staged an anti-US rally a few blocks from (and moments before) his last meeting with the US President in Venezuela. He has used the Citco corporation (100% owned by the Venezuela Government) in an attempt to breed discontent by giving away “under-market” fuel to select impoverished communities within the US.

Now he’s talking about nationalizing the assets of a US company AES (Venezuela’s electric company). This after Venezuela sold the rights to privatize their electric utility.

Is Venezuela wagging a war against the US? Should the US seize the available assets of Citco in retaliation?

This whole situation is a little odd in this instance, while the tyrant has been elected 3 times and weathered a coup, he has only been in office for only 7 years. I would expect a dictator to crush the free-will of the people and assonate their opposition for at least a decade before pulling stunts like these.
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