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Chavez nuclear gag riles the US

By Guy Adams

President Hugo Chavez: 'Golf is a bourgeois sport'

AP

Hugo Chavez has once more managed to upset his American counterparts

While the rest of the world scrambles to build missile defence shields, and the diplomatic community rushes to emergency meetings at the United Nations, Hugo Chavez is taking a splendidly relaxed view of Iran’s latest nuclear ambitions.

The Venezuelan President has once more managed to upset his American counterparts, this time by using a televised Cabinet meeting to crack knockabout jokes about helping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Welcoming his late-arriving Minister for Mining, Rodolfo Sanz, to Tuesday’s gathering, which was being broadcast live on state television, Mr Chavez shuffled some papers and cheerfully inquired: “How’s the uranium for Iran? For the atomic bomb?”

Inside the room, the remark drew giggles. But at the US State Department, where irony is perhaps in less common currency, it prompted a stern response from officials concerned about possible nuclear transfers between Venezuela and Iran.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly pointed out that Mr Chavez has previously said Iran has a “sovereign right” to pursue peaceful nuclear projects, regardless of international concern over revelations that it has developed a uranium enrichment plant.

Since Mr Chavez is a key ally of Mr Ahmadinejad (apparently on the basis that any enemy of the US is a friend of his) the US State Department is now concerned that his regime could supply the Islamic Republic with uranium from its recently-discovered deposits.

Venezuela has dismissed those concerns, though, pointing out that Iran already boasts significant uranium of its own and has no need to import any. Though Mr Chavez is keen to develop nuclear energy in his country, he has always been vehemently opposed to nuclear weapons.

In a separate move, perhaps designed to further needle the US, Mr Chavez recently announced that he intends to ban TV stations from broadcasting the imported cartoon Family Guy, claiming that it somehow promotes the use of marijuana.

Last year, his administration forced the network Televen to pull The Simpsons from the airwaves, saying the show flouted regulations prohibiting “messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents.”

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Wow
[info]hugochavez1 wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 06:15 pm (UTC)
Who would have thought the Independent would fuel the Lie about Chavez and Family Guy. I suppose they too used El Pais as a source on that one instead of checking the web sites of the channels in question and seeing that this has been totally exposed as a yet another anti-Chavez lie.

If you understand Spanish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KURJFZYCUV0
[info]alex_fraser1 wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 06:37 pm (UTC)
Not surprised he is laughing, if he is......This whole Iran grandstanding stinks from top to bottom.
the irony, as they are surrounded by the US and Israel both armed to the teeth....making a big spectacle at the UN meeting a few weeks back..
Let's just remember the moral authority USA is the only country in world history to have dropped a nuke....
I am past caring, and i am not afraid in the slightest...
After the INSIDE JOB of 9/11 I have lost all faith and credibility in government and media....
Dispicable people....
Hope the pay cheque is worth it
Americans are not so innocent
[info]rain1950 wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 10:48 pm (UTC)
A mighty fascinating bit of work.
What is rather interesting is 4 of the Five who have Veto power were in part and privy to an implementation of the:

The Morgenthau Plan

http://tinyurl.com/y9rssjx

The history we never hear about very often.
Re: Americans are not so innocent
[info]alex_fraser1 wrote:
Thursday, 8 October 2009 at 07:58 am (UTC)
Thanks for the link-Nothing would surprise me anymore about how corrupt and evil things go.....
Chavez nuclear gag
[info]anikolic wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 07:33 pm (UTC)
Chavez is no close to IRAN just because they share a common enemy, it is because IRAN has developed affordable technology (due a process of re-enginnering) in areas as agriculture, fertilazer plants, vehicules assembly lines among others, and Venezuela is taking advantage of a good deal. Of course that being both countries under the continous treat of USA help a lot the relation ship.
The Simpsons were not pull from the airwaves, under the existing law of Radio and TV trasmissions there are schedules for different programs. The show was requested to be air at a more convenient schedule (night). Nobody is going to question that the contect of The Simpsons, eventhough make us (mature people) laugh a lot, it is aimed to grown people.
The characters of the Simpsons could represent part the decadent american society, but do not represent the required values that the Venezuelan people are looking for.
Now that Chavez- he has bollocks and is funny too
[info]afghant wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 08:00 pm (UTC)
Absolutely Love that man Chavez. he was outrageously funny in a video on Youtube where he gave a statement in the backdrop of donkeys and called Bush a 'Burro' - a donkey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kvz8FGQPGI
If Yakees help Israel why moan about venezuela?
[info]stanleycorbett wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 08:53 pm (UTC)


If Yakees help Israel why moan about venezuela?



Chavez knows
[info]someofusknow wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 09:25 pm (UTC)
Chavez knows the US is totally corrupt and practically everything that comes from 'official' sources is a lie of some kind. The rest if the world is slowly catching on.
cartoons?
[info]golan_nights wrote:
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 10:59 pm (UTC)
I thought this was an article about Chavez's hilarious riposte. So what's all this business about cartoons please?
I guess Chavez
[info]archie1954 wrote:
Thursday, 8 October 2009 at 07:55 pm (UTC)
is a bit of a card. He certainly knows how to rattle the American cage. why doesn't the US at least try to make up and be friends? I'm sure he could forgive them for trying to oust him in a coup because it's a different Administration now but he needs to know it will be reciprocated.
cartoons
[info]vikingman wrote:
Friday, 9 October 2009 at 01:28 am (UTC)
The Gringos are determined to make their own population as dumb as possible, the Simpsons and what other low grade dumbing down garbage they put out, it should be kept at home, not exported. That goes for the damn Rap Crap as well. This is the first I hear about Chavez sparing his own population of being polluted by USA produced garbage. I salute him for that. There is so much good and positive stuff coming out of the USA as well. Let's receive that and reject the garbage. Screening is healthy when dealing with a greed infested, selfish, sick and dying culture like the US.
After living in the US for 27 years I now live in Nicaragua. It angers me to see the Simpsons aired here and it puts me in an ass kicking mood when I hear US produced gangter rap on TV, Radio and in the clubs as well as latin copies of this discordant arrogance. If Chavez says the Family Guy is garbage, I believe him. I also don't buy into communism or extreme socialism so don't dismiss me based on that assumption.


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