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Article: The world according to Chavez; Venezuela and the United States.(Venezuela's bid for a UN seat)(Hugo Chavez)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2006
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Venezuela's bid for a UN Security Council seat has divided Latin America
HE MAY give the impression of being the clown prince of world politics, but there is often calculation behind Hugo Chavez's verbal fireworks. So it was with his speech to the United Nations General Assembly earlier this month, in which he denounced George Bush as "the devil" and the "tyrannical president of the world", and plugged an anti-imperialist tract by Noam Chomsky, a far-left American academic. The speech brought criticism of Mr Chavez from former friends in the Democratic Party in the United States, but it was not aimed at them. Mr Chavez is a man with two elections to win.
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