Chávez builds base with grass-roots circles in U.S.

By Pablo Bachelet
Miami Herald
Monday, Nov. 21, 2005


Miami's Jesús Soto supports Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's vision of ''participatory democracy.'' Valerie Pusch of Chicago backs Chávez because of his policies on behalf of the poor.

And they say so loudly, as heads of their local Bolivarian Circles -- among the dozen or so U.S. copies of the groups Chávez has set up throughout his country to mobilize Venezuelans on behalf of his socialist ``revolution.''

Even as Chávez attacks President Bush as his sworn nemesis, his government is running a strong campaign to curry favor with U.S. citizens through leftist grass-roots groups, paid lobbyists and public relations operatives and offers of cheap fuel for America's poor.

The Venezuelan leader is running a ''grass-roots foreign policy,'' said Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Washington based Center for Economic and Policy Research, a group that supports Chávez.

''Obviously the government of the United States has not been very friendly and figure they have a better chance at dealing directly with the people who don't have any particular reason not to like Venezuela,'' he added.



http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13221493.htm

Support Hugo. Buy Citgo.

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Go Hugo :yourock:

was designed to deal with. You know, communist takeover of our country.

against him, influence public opinion in foreign countries, but he's doing it non-violently.

Viva Chavez!!!

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Support Chavez and Venezuela every time you drive.

Someone who takes on a regime they disagree with non-violently through persuasion, not persecution.

Hugo Chavez and the Crawford Madman
by Mike Whitney

http://www.opednews.com

Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a “terrorist” and disparaged the US as a “terrorist state”. Just last week, Chavez fired off another broadside saying, “The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States…The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer, and a madman.”

He got that right.

For liberals and leftists Chavez’s fiery salvos have been a welcome respite from the weak-kneed groveling of congressional Democrats and the congratulatory purring of media brown-nosers. So far, the Venezuelan president has been the only leader on the world stage to state the obvious, that Bush and his maniacal group of liars, carpet-baggers, and war criminals are savaging the planet and putting millions at risk.

That doesn’t mean that Chavez hates the American people; quite the contrary. Following the vast devastation of Hurricane Katrina Chavez responded more quickly than FEMA, offering to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the disaster area. He offered to provide $1 million of free petroleum via the state run Petroleos de Venezuela and its subsidiary CITGO for the relief effort.

According to civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson, Chavez also offered two mobile hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts, and 50 tons of food; considerably more than “Brownie” was able to produce.
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_whi_051121_hugo_chavez_and_the_.htm

Cybercircle site, for international Bolivarian Circles, and the Circle for Miami(Spanish).

http://cybercircle.org/sections/circles1.shtml

http://www.bovmiami.org/cbmiami.php

For basic info on Chavez, Venezuela, and the Bolivarian Revolution...

MOVIES:
FSTV link, voices from Bolivarian Venezuela(Real Player)
http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=712

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War
Note: This is Spanish with English Subtitles, recommend the Mpeg1(1.3 gigabytes) version, large I know, but the subtitles are easier to read compared to the 200 megabyte Mpeg4 version.
http://www.archive.org/details/Venezuela_Bolivariana_VEN_2004

Publications from the Venezuelan Information Office(PDF)
http://cybercircle.org/pages/getinvolved/flyers.shtml