Comrade Bush to the left of me - Chavez

Comrade Bush to the left of me - Chavez
Reuters
From correspondents in Caracas, Venezuela
October 16, 2008 01:57pm

SOCIALIST Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked US President George W. Bush as a "comrade" today, saying the American leader was a hard-line leftist for his Government's intervention of major private banks in the US. financial crisis.

Mr Chavez, who calls capitalism an evil and ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro his mentor, ridiculed Mr Bush for his plan for the Federal Government to take equity in American banks despite the US right-wing's criticism of Venezuelan nationalisations.

"Bush is to the left of me now," Mr Chavez told an audience of international intellectuals debating the benefits of socialism. "

Comrade Bush announced he will buy shares in private banks."

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