Iran's Ahmedinejad meets 'brother' Chavez - Jul 29, 2006:
"TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Anti-U.S. leaders Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad met in Tehran on Saturday, pledging mutual support for one another, state media reported."
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Anti-US imperialism aside, why is it that Chavez feels the need to go around the world shaking hands with all the world's serious assholes? Surely, one could find better allies than Belarus and Alexander Lukashenko. From Human Rights Watch: "His four years in office have witnessed the reversal of modest improvements in respect for human rights that followed the perestroika period and the break-up of the Soviet Union. In the past year alone, the government closed the only remaining independent daily newspaper in the country, was implicated in at least four assaults or threats on government critics, and detained scores of demonstrators, many of them minors. Together with restrictions on civic freedoms that have now been codified into law, these developments indicate that President Lukashenka is truly turning back the clock on rights."
This is turning out to be quite a tour for Hugo. He also stopped by Russia for some fighter aircraft and other "national security" essentials. It seems Chavez is making the best of the US-created international power vacuum.
How long before US forces move to South America once US airstrikes against Tehran push Chavez into declaring an oil boycott of the world market in conjunction with Iran?
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/07/28/2003320763
"I want to thank President Putin for his determination in reinforcing Venezuela's defence capacity," Chavez told reporters upon arrival at Moscow airport on Wednesday.
Chavez said Moscow and Caracas would sign a deal on opening a Kalashnikov assault rifle factory in Venezuela and seal an agreement in which Russia is to sell Su-30 fighter jets to Venezuela.
"I am not an aggressor and have not come for weapons with which to fight against all and everyone. It's simply that our army's weapons are old," Chavez said after visiting a Kalashnikov factory in the city of Izhevsk on Wednesday."
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