Agence France Presse July 27, 2009. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the U.S. army has "plans to invade" his country from Colombia, where "a Yankee military force" is assembling.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: PEEK. June 29, 2009. At minimum, the U.S. could have flexed its tremendous economic muscle before the coup and told the military plotters to stand down.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 3, 2009. "We wouldn't have any problem in taking in human beings," Chavez said this week, calling on the U.S. to "finish with that miserable prison."
Nadia Martinez, YES! Magazine. August 20, 2007. As the people of Latin America build democracies from the bottom up, the symbols of power are changing. What does the new shift in power mean for world politics?
Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research. December 5, 2006. The re-election of Hugo Chavez is the perfect opportunity for the Bush Administration to bury the hatchet with our fourth largest oil supplier and begin a policy of engagement with Venezuela.
