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Hugo Chavez: "If the Imperialist Government of the White
House Dares to Invade Venezuela, the War of 100 Years Will
be Unleashed in South America"
Jesse Jackson: Venezuela "Invests in Its People...U.S.
Invests In Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and a War that does not
Make Sense in Iraq"
Hugo Chavez: "If the Imperialist Government
of the White House Dares to Invade Venezuela, the War of 100
Years Will be Unleashed in South America"
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks on Democracy Now!
in his first interview in the United States. Chavez discusses
the war in Iraq, President Bush, the role of the media in
the aborted coup against him and Venezuela's request for the
extradition of Cuban anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles.
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transcript - partial]
Scores of world leaders have come to the United States for
a summit at the United Nations. Among them, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez.
In a speech before the world body, Chavez accused the US
of trying to hijack the UN summit and described the US as
a terrorist nation because it is harboring the tele-evangelist
Pat Robertson who recently called for his assassination. He
has accused the United States of being behind the aborted
coup against him in 2002, condemned the U.S. invasions of
Iraq and Afghanistan and threatened to cut off oil sales to
the United States.
Democracy Now! met with President Chavez on Friday in his
first sit-down interview in the United States. Amy Goodman
interviewed him with Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez
and Margaret Prescod of Pacifica Radio station KPFK at the
Venezuelan ambassador to the UN's residence in New York City.
Jesse Jackson: Venezuela "Invests in Its People...U.S.
Invests In Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and a War that does not
Make Sense in Iraq"
The Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke Saturday night in New York
City at an event with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Jackson
said, "[The Venezuelan] government's priorities are to
invest in its people. They subsidize oil, gas, health care
and education and that's civil. We cannot subsidize our oil
and education because we are investing in tax cuts for the
wealthy and a war that does not make sense in Iraq. We need
new values, we need to go another way."
During his three-day tour of New York City, President Chavez
visited the South Bronx. At night, he addressed a packed audience
at the Saint Paul and Saint Andrew Methodist Church on the
Upper West Side.
Also speaking were New York Congressmember Jose Serrano and
the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Jackson traveled to Caracas in
August to offer support to Chavez just days after tele-evangelist
Pat Robertson called for his assassination.
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
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Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
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Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
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Simba Russeau, Johnny Sender, Rich Kim, Joe Murgio, John Randolph,
Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu,
Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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