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Venezuela's President Chavez Offers Cheap Oil to the Poor...of
the United States
Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai and Son of Executed
Nigerian Activist Ken Wiwa Discuss Oil and the Environment
Venezuela's President Chavez Offers Cheap Oil to
the Poor...of the United States
We play the rest of our conversation with Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez. He spoke with Democracy Now! in his first interview
in the United States. We ask him what evidence he has for
his charges that the Bush administration has attempted to
assassinate him and he reveals for the first time, details
of a plan to offer of cheap oil to the poor...of the United
States. [includes rush
transcript]
Today, the rest of our interview with Venezuelan president
Hugo Chavez.
President Chavez was in New York last week for a summit of
world leaders at the United Nations. In his speech, Chavez
blasted US foreign policy and accused the Bush administration
of trying to hijack the UN summit. He described the United
States as a terrorist nation because it is harboring the televangelist
Pat Robertson who recently called for his assassination. Chavez
has long charged that the US was behind the aborted coup against
him in 2002.
In the interview, he reveals for the first time, details
of a plan to offer of cheap oil to the poor...of the United
States.
Democracy Now! met with President Chavez on Friday in his
first sit-down interview in the United States. I 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 here in New York City.
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai and Son of Executed
Nigerian Activist Ken Wiwa Discuss Oil and the Environment
We take a look at oil and the environment with Ken Wiwa
- the son of Ken Saro Wiwa who was executed in 1995 by the
Nigerian military dictatorship and Nobel Peace prize-winner
and leading environmentalist Wangari Maathai.
We spend the rest of the hour talking about oil and other
environmental issues with perhaps the leading environmentalist
in the world today, Wangari Mathai. She is the 2004 Nobel
Peace Prize winner. Wangari Maathai just spoke at the Clinton
Global Initiative which was an alternative summit to the World
Summit at the United Nations that took place last week.
We also speak with Ken Wiwa - the son of Ken Saro-Wiwa who
was executed in 1995 by the Nigerian military dictatorship.
Saro-Wiwa led the movement against Shell corporation's exploitation
of his home land. In 1994, Saro-Wiwa was imprisoned and accused
of incitement to murder. Despite widespread international
protests, Saro-Wiwa was hanged after a sham trial with other
eight Ogoni rights activists.
- Wangari Maathai, ecologist and zoology professor. She
is the founder of the Green
Belt Movement of Kenya. She was named the 2004 Nobel
Peace Prize winner, becoming the first African woman and
first environmentalist to win the award.
- Ken Wiwa, journalist and author. He is a faculty member
at Massey College in Toronto and a writer for The Globe
and Mail. His book "In the Shadow of a Saint"
is about his father, Nigerian activist and political prisoner
Ken Saro-Wiwa who was killed in 1995.
- For more information: ThePriceofOil.org.
Related Link: Drilling
and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
Our email address is mail@democracynow.org.
Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Jeremy Scahill and Parvez Sharma.
Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
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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