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Venezuela
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Citgo Gas Buy-cott: Support Venezuela!
worldwide WAMM September 2005 GOOD NEWS
Join the Buy-cott. A recent Common Dreams article urges drivers to buy their gas from Citgo, a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is attempting to fight his country’s poverty by using oil revenue to provide health care, literacy programs, education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans. In 2002, the Bush administration supported an attempted military coup seeking to overthrow Chavez.
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Chavez Speaks to U.N.
September 18, 2005
Venezuelan President Chavez made his first visit to the United States in years last week. Arriving to address the 60th anniversary of the United Nations, the Venezuelan leader created a sensation in New York with a speech that took to task the undemocratic nature of UN decision making processes, the morality of the Iraq War, and the very placement of the United Nations in the United States. "The headquarters of the United Nations," said Chavez, "must be in the [global] South."
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At least one member of Congress took the opportunity to smear Chavez supporters in the United States. Representative Connie Mack, a conservative Florida Republican, told the Associated Press that Chavez's American allies "oppose freedom and dislike the United States."...
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Pat Robertson's Assassination Call is Immoral
Fellowship of Reconciliation
August 24, 2005
On the Monday, August 22nd edition of the nationally syndicated 700 Club television program, Mr. Pat Robertson advocated that the United States should assassinate President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said...
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