Hugo Chavez has shown the world how you deal with a bully ~ you laugh at him, call his bluff and hit him where it hurts ~ which is oil and switching to the Euro.
Chavez says, in this ten minute video interview, that he is protecting himself against US aggression ~ and says he may join forces with Tehran in their plan to undermine the US dollar by selling their oil in Euros.
Click here to watch. Windows Media
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13080.htm
And here is a short article written by Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, regarding the validity of the Chavez phenenomenon.
Allen L Roland
NOT A DIFFICULT CHOICE AT ALL
Chávez and Venezuela deserve the support of all who believe in social justice and democracy
By Ken Livingstone
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13068.htm
05/15/06 "The Guardian" -- -- President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela will today become the second head of state - after the Queen - to be welcomed to London's City Hall. When it comes to the social transformation taking place in Venezuela, the political qualifications often necessary in our imperfect world can be set aside. It is crystal clear on which side right and justice lies.
For many years people have demanded that social progress and democracy go hand in hand, and that is exactly what is now taking place in Venezuela.
It therefore deserves the unequivocal support of not only every supporter of social progress but every genuine believer in democracy in the world.
Venezuela is a state of huge oil wealth that was hitherto scarcely used to benefit the population. Now, for the first time in a country of over 25 million people, a functioning health service is being built. Seventeen million people have been given access to free healthcare for the first time in their lives.
Illiteracy has been eliminated. Fifteen million people have been given access to food, medicines and other essential products at affordable prices. A quarter of a million eye operations have been financed to rescue people from blindness.
These are extraordinary practical achievements.
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