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Cuba Watch: Fidel Castro – Decided to Avoid Colostomy?

Cuban leader Fidel Castro chose to avoid a colostomy and opted for riskier intestinal surgery that led to serious complications, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said in its Wednesday edition.

The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.

The newspaper reported a day earlier that Castro’s prognosis was “very serious” and that he is being fed intravenously after three failed operations for diverticulitis, or pouch-like bulges in the large intestine that get infected.

El Pais cited medical sources at the same Madrid hospital where a surgeon who examined Castro in late December works.

And ask the Canadians who travel to the United States to see a doctor or get a test since their universal care (socialized) system imposes rationing of care.

NOTE WELL:

Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton support government run universal single payor health care.

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The Michael Rimerez Files

CNN: Chavez says he’s ready to transform Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez says nothing can stop him from swiftly transforming Venezuela into a socialist state, and he faces few obstacles now that a crushing re-election win has given him free rein to pursue more radical changes.

His first big move — to nationalize “strategic” power and telecommunications companies — heralds a series of planned “revolutionary laws” that remain vaguely defined. But with oil profits booming and his popularity high, Chavez appears to be in step with a majority of Venezuelans even as spooked investors dumped shares in the affected companies.

“Everything the man is doing is good,” said Orlando Vera, a 63-year-old window washer, on Tuesday, adding that his economic situation has improved under Chavez. As for nationalization, Vera said it makes sense for companies that serve the public interest.

Chavez, an admirer of Fidel Castro, says he is crafting a new sort of “21st Century Socialism.” Critics say it is starting to look like old-fashioned totalitarianism by a leader obsessed with power.

“Fatherland, socialism or death — I take the oath,” Chavez said.

A Fidel Castro Communist style dictator in the making.

A fearless leader with life tenure?

Nationalization, laws by decree, elimination of elections – Where have we heard this before?

Kenmore Square and the landmark Citgo sign are seen from the roof of the John Hancock Tower in Boston on Monday, Feb. 13, 2006. Boston City Councilor Jerry McDermott wants to take down the famed sign in Kenmore Square in response to controversial remarks by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez when he called President Bush ‘the devil’ during a speech at the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006.

Convenience store operator 7-Eleven Inc. is dropping Venezuela-backed Citgo as its gasoline supplier at more than 2,100 locations and switching to its own brand of fuel.

The retailer said Wednesday it will purchase fuel from several distributors, including Tower Energy Group of Torrance, Calif., Sinclair Oil of Salt Lake City, and Houston-based Frontier Oil Corp.

A spokeswoman for Dallas-based 7-Eleven said its 20-year contract with Citgo Petroleum Corp. ends next week. About 2,100 of 7-Eleven’s 5,300 U.S. stores sell gasoline.

Citgo is a Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, and the foreign parent became a public-relations issue for 7-Eleven because of comments by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Good for 7-Eleven.

But, America needs to end its dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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Hugo Chavez Watch: Chavez – Bush Has Given Order to Kill Me

Hugo Chavez Watch: Chavez Calls President Bush “THE DEVIL” During United Nations Speech

9/11 Conspiracy Theory Watch: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Says 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Bear Examination

Graphic: Cox & Forkum: El Diablo

Bush will kill me: Chavez

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez accused his American counterpart George W. Bush overnight of ordering his assassination for calling the US leader the devil during his speech at the United Nations this week.

“The devil appears very sulphurous, and a few people say that he has given the order to kill me,” Chavez said during a speech before scientists in western Venezuela.

“Many concerned friends have called me, (saying) that because I said ‘devil’ over there (at the UN), they have sentenced me to die. They will not kill me, I have much faith in life,” Mr Chavez added.

Chavez is PARANOID – like in DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR.

But, there may be some slight payback.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro speaks at a news conference at the Venezuelan Mission to United Nations after returning from JFK International Airport in New York, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006. Maduro, accompanied by Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.N. Francisco Arias, right, and advisor and former Venezuelan foreign minister Roy Chaderton, seated left, was detained by U.S. authorities at a New York airport for more than hour Saturday as he tried to return to the South American country, President Hugo Chavez said. U.S. and U.N. officials called the incident regrettable but said Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro had been identified for ‘secondary screening,’ a security check that can kick in when a passenger arrives without a ticket.

Reuters: Venezuela foreign minister says was detained in US

Venezuela’s foreign minister said on Saturday that U.S. authorities detained him briefly at New York’s JFK airport in an action he called a violation of international law.

The circumstances of the detention were not clear and the U.S. Embassy in Caracas could not be reached for comment. Venezuelan television said Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro was stopped for an hour and a half and stripped of his travel documents.

Oh Well……

Flap supposed he looked like a DUMBASS MORON – like his boss Hugo Chavez.

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Hugo Chavez Watch: Chavez Calls President Bush “THE DEVIL” During United Nations Speech

9/11 Conspiracy Theory Watch: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Says 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Bear Examination

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez acknowledges members of the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006.

AP: At U.N., Chavez calls Bush ‘the devil’

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, calling President Bush “the devil.”

The impassioned speech by the leftist leader came a day after Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparred over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program but managed to avoid a personal encounter.

“The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said, referring to Bush’s address on Tuesday and making the sign of the cross. “He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.”

Allah has the video and more: Video: Chavez flips out at the UN (Highlights added)

The transcript is here.

The White House has refused comment but Flap will respond.

American people why are we listening to Marxist Latin American dictators and Islamofascists at the United Nations which derives over 25 per cent of its support from the United States?

Isn’t it time to send the United Nations out of New York and withdraw from this useless, reckless, ineffective, racist and anti-semitic institution?

Chavez’s speech was a JOKE by a smart-ass piece of shit NUTTTER-MORON dictator. Send him home and boycott Venezulean products, including its oil.

Stay tuned…….

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez attends an event celebrating the National Women’s Institute’s anniversary in Caracas September 12, 2006.

AP: Theory that U.S. orchestrated Sept. 11 attacks ‘not absurd’: Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that it’s at least plausible that the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Chavez did not specifically accuse the U.S. government of having a hand in the Sept. 11 attacks, but rather suggested that theories of U.S. involvement bear examination.

The Venezuelan leader, an outspoken critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, was reacting to a television report investigating a theory that the Twin Towers were brought down with explosives after hijacked airplanes crashed into them in 2001.

“The hypothesis is not absurd . . . that those towers could have been dynamited,” Chavez said in a speech to supporters. “A building never collapses like that, unless it’s with an implosion.”

“The hypothesis that is gaining strength . . . is that it was the same U.S. imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist attack or act against its own people and against citizens of all over the world,” Chavez said.

“Why? To justify the aggressions that immediately were unleashed on Afghanistan, on Iraq.”

Hugo Chavez has gone NUTTER.

But, then again, didn’t we already know it?