Bush will kill me: Chavez

From correspondents in Caracas
September 24, 2006 06:30am
Article from: Agence France-Presse

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez accused his American counterpart George W. Bush overnight of ordering his assassination for calling the US leader the devil during his speech at the United Nations this week.

“The devil appears very sulphurous, and a few people say that he has given the order to kill me,” Chavez said during a speech before scientists in western Venezuela.

“Many concerned friends have called me, (saying) that because I said ‘devil’ over there (at the UN), they have sentenced me to die. They will not kill me, I have much faith in life,” Mr Chavez added.

The leftist Venezuelan leader called Mr Bush “the devil”, “a liar” and a “tyrant” during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, one day after the US President spoke from the same podium.

Mr Chavez again showed a copy of Hegemony or Survival overnight, a book by US academic Noam Chomsky that he had first held up during his address to the UN assembly.

He said he had to wash the book “with holy water because I put it in the same place that the devil put his papers.”

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Hugo, might not hurt to keep your back to the wall… and make sure those doors and windows are locked!

All the authors currently clamoring for a seat on Oprah Winfrey’s couch might do well to send copies of their books to the latest publishing tastemaker: Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez.

Ever since Mr. Chavez held up a copy of a 301-page book (Hegemony or Survival) by Noam Chomsky, the linguist and left-wing political commentator, during a speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, sales of the book have climbed best’seller lists at Amazon.com and BN.com, the online site for the book retailer Barnes & Noble, and booksellers around the country have noted a spike in sales.

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Chavez = Thug: Pelosi
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of President George W. Bush’s fiercest political opponents at home took his side on Thursday, calling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a “thug” for his remark that Bush is like the devil.

“Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern day Simon Bolivar but all he is an everyday thug,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference, referring to Chavez’ comments in a U.N. General Assembly speech on Wednesday.

“Hugo Chavez abused the privilege that he had, speaking at the United Nations,” said Pelosi, a frequent Bush critic. “He demeaned himself and he demeaned Venezuela.”

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By ALEX DeMARBAN
Anchorage Daily News

Published: September 20, 2006
Last Modified: September 20, 2006 at 07:01 AM

A Venezuelan-owned oil company will warm 12,000 rural Alaska homes this winter with an enormous gift of heating fuel that some elated residents in the Bush call a godsend — and ironic.

The donation from Houston-based Citgo will buy 100 gallons of fuel for every household in 151 villages. But the gift worth roughly $5 million comes courtesy of a country whose leftist president is pals with America’s enemies and supports Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Hugo Chavez also calls our president mean things, such as “genocidal murderer” and “madman.”

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