What's Condi doing in South America?

US More Intent on Blocking Chavez
By Paul Richter
The Los Angeles Times
Friday 10 March 2006


Signaling the shift, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Congress last month that the United States was actively organizing other countries to carry out an "inoculation strategy" against what it sees as meddling by Chavez.

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Rice leaves today on an eight-day trip to Latin America, Indonesia and Australia, including a stop in Chile for the inauguration of President-elect Michelle Bachelet. Rice said pointedly Thursday that she did not plan to see Chavez, who is expected to attend the inauguration Saturday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031006K.shtml

Watch out Chavez. Appearently Iraq is not enough to keep the chimp busy.

I think only three countries are right wing and friendly to Washington. I'm sure it gives the *istas hissy fits.

brazil make fine shoes and argentina makes fine riding boots...opps and fine riding whips and chaps
just who in the hell would lisren to anything she has to say?

Condescenda was arriving in Egypt a couple weeks ago as I was leaving for a short break. I asked my Egyptian friends to please keep her, but they adamantly refused. Apparently there was some problem about the damn liberals making a protected species out of the Nile River crocodiles...

I did have the immense pleasure of reading local editorials about "one of the worst weeks of Rice's life." After (I assume) privately dangling both the carrot and the stick to Mubarak in Egypt, she was forced to stand onstage with him in public while Mubarak very diplomatically told her to Cheney off. The same thing happened to her in Jordan.

Breaks my heart.