Hugo Chavez used to be given a hearty welcome in Moscow during the first years of Vladimir Putin’s presidency. However, Chavez started making his visits to Moscow during extremely inconvenient time afterwards. Last year, for example, Chavez was eager to visit Moscow on the threshold of the G8 Summit in St.Petersburg. The Russian administration had to postpone the visit until the end of July. The delay did not affect the Russian-Venezuelan relations, though: Venezuela purchased military hardware from Russia in the sum of three billion dollars

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged soldiers to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States. He said the US government is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Wednesday that he will not attend to a summit of the Mercosur bloc, as he plans to visit Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. At the same time, the Russian press agency Interfax reported that the Russian state-owned arms trader Rosoboronexport “does not rule out the possibility that new contracts with Venezuela could be signed during the upcoming visit of Chavez.”

Whenever I see images of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Katherine Harris and other minions of, or apologists for, the corrupt, inept, mendacious and venal Bush dictatorship, I am immediately reminded of this line from John Carpenter’s classic horror movie Halloween: “What is living behind [their] eyes is purely and simply evil.”

I am the voice of the voiceless. I am the exploited, powerless against the machinations of the exploiter. I am the honest, so my truth will be used against me. I am the victim of capitalism in America.

Venezuelan President denounces Bush plan for biodiesel and warns MERCOSUL not to repeat mistakes made by AFTA