From: NY Transfer News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:11:08 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NY Transfer News) Subject: [CubaNews] Chavez to Turn Presidential Palace Over to People's University Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CHAVEZ TO TURN PRESIDENTIAL PALACE OVER TO PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY CARACAS, Jan 10 (reuters) -- The hearts of President Hugo Chavez's vociferous critics must have leapt as he announced his departure from the historic Miraflores presidential palace. But the outspoken former-paratrooper, who is due to serve as president of the world's No. 4 oil exporter until 2007, quickly frustrated his opponents by clarifying he was leaving the 19th century mansion so a university could be set up there. "I am going from Miraflores," said the 47-year-old president in a speech late on Wednesday, adding "I leave it to the children, for the birth of a Popular Bolivarian University." Chavez, who has renamed his South American country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in honor of 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar, announced the surprise move at the swearing in of a new higher education minister. "I am sure my squalid opponents were elated when I said I was leaving Miraflores," chuckled the leftist leader, whose three-year-old "revolution" has deepened [read: revealed] class divisions in his dilapidated but oil-rich republic. The palace, which was built by former dictator Joaquin Crespo and bought by the government in 1911, "has fulfilled its mission," Chavez said. Standing at the center of Caracas' long valley, which is home to some 5 million inhabitants, the Miraflores palace is flanked by a huge army barracks. "Later on I will tell you where I am going to move," Chavez said. Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
