12:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Bolivia|Brazil|Colombia|Controversia|Guatemala|Politics|Uruguay|Venezuela · Comments Off
12 Mar 2007
U.S. President Bush continues his goodwill tour of Latin America. He hugged Lula, talked trade with Uruguay, and practically ran through Colombia as protesters burned U.S. flags. Today Bush lands in Guatemala where he plans to talk about poverty. Meanwhile Venezuelan President and Bush arch-enemy, Hugo Chavez is touring the places Bush isn’t. In Argentina he sort of took back his statements made at the U.N earlier this year when he called Bush a devil who smelled of sulfur.
In the rally in Argentina, Chavez called Bush a “political cadaver” and said he didn’t smell like sulfur anymore. That’s probably not the sort of apology Bush was looking for but oh well.
Chavez continued his tour in Bolivia with pal Evo Morales, showing love to victims of El Nino storm flooding.
Via / CBS News
8:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America|Politics|Venezuela · Comments Off
9 Mar 2007
While Bush and Lula are having an ethanol flavored lovefest, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is starting a countertour which he began today in Argentina.
“I believe the chief objective of the Bush trip is to try to scrub clean the face of the (U.S.) empire in Latin America. But it’s too late,” Chavez said of recent Bush pledges of aid. “It seems he’s just now discovered that poverty exists in the region.”
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