#1Mar 14th, 2007
Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began his own tour on Friday night, just across the Rio Plata from Uruguay, in an event entitled, "For Latin American Unity, Welcome Commander Chavez, get out imperialism Bush" at the Ferrocarril Oeste stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Before tens of thousands, Chavez called Bush a "political cadaver."
"He (Bush) looks like he's afraid to say my name," Chavez commented.
"Today they asked him in Brasilia, in a press conference," said Chavez on Friday, "I saw it in my hotel, I was watching and a journalist asked him: Look, they say that you are here to block the advance of Chavez in South America. He (Bush) looks like it gives him tachycardia when they say the name Chavez, because I saw... he lowered his head, stuttered a couple of times and responded something else; he didn't respond the question at all. So he won't dare, I will, I will dare... and I think he owes us."
Bush left Uruguay this morning for Colombia, where he will be meeting with President Alvaro Uribe. Colombia receives the third largest amount of US military aid of any country in the world, after Israel and Egypt, ostensibly to fight Narco-trafficking under Plan Colombia.
Chavez is also continuing on his counter-Bush tour. He met President Evo Morales in Trinidad, Bolivia yesterday, a region which has been affected by torrential rains and large floods.
