Barry Stoller
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:12:26 -0700
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Reuters. 13 April 2002. Iran Sees U.S. Behind Chavez's Venezuela Ouster. TEHRAN -- Iran, which had built up friendly ties with deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said Saturday the fiery populist's ouster by the military was in part hatched by the United States. [N.B.] State television said Washington was concerned that Venezuela -- the world's No 4 oil exporter and a leading supplier of petroleum products to the U.S. -- would heed a call by Iran to cut oil supplies for one month to countries that support Israel. Noting that Chavez's foreign policies "were contrary to American interests in Latin America" it said the flamboyant ex-paratrooper's fall "reminds one of the American-backed coup by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973." Chavez had visited fellow OPEC-member Iran and was warmly received in a country strongly opposed to Washington since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and recently labeled by President Bush part of "an axis of evil." The White House, clearly pleased by Chavez's departure, said it did not consider his ouster a coup and said the Venezuelan people rose up for the protection of democracy. But for Iranian television, "the most important reason for America's concern was the issue of oil...There was an increasing probability that Venezuela would also support the stoppage" of supplies, suggested by Tehran. Iranian newspapers also saw the American hand in Chavez's downfall. "Some reports indicate the United States gave the green light for the coup d'etat and that Chavez was deposed because of his avowed anti-American policies," wrote Resallat, a conservative daily. For Jomhooriye Eslami, Chavez's ouster was "the culmination of a concerted effort in which the United States played no small part. The deposing of a government that favored a policy aimed at cutting the production and raising the price of oil is no accident." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================