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Chavez says “Comrade Bush” turns left in crisis
“Socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked George W. Bush as a “comrade” on Wednesday, saying the U.S. president was a hard-line leftist for his government’s intervention of major private banks in the U.S. financial crisis.”
“Chavez, who calls capitalism an evil and ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro his mentor, ridiculed Bush for his plan for the federal government to take equity in American banks despite the U.S. right-wing’s criticism of Venezuelan nationalizations.”
“Bush is to the left of me now,” Chavez told an audience of international intellectuals debating the benefits of socialism. “Comrade Bush announced he will buy shares in private banks.”
Full report form Reuters @ http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49F0K720081016
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1. David Carlson replies at 17th October 2008, 2:27 pm :
Sadly, Chavez has a point. Though Bush is surely not left of Chavez, it is obvious that the bailout and government taking equity in banks are signs and essentially actions that could be put under the label “socialism.”
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