President Chavez ‘Puts Early End’ to Honeymoon with Obama: Tal Cual, Venezuela

For those interested in a fuller accounting of the May Day remarks of President Hugo Chavez in regard to the Obama Administration than those available on the wire services, this news item from Venezuela’s Tal Cual offers extensive quotes – and coverage of the harsh manner in which his government dealt with pro-democracy counter-demonstrations on the same day.

The Tal Cual report says in part:

“President Hugo Chavez took advantage of International Worker’s Day celebrations in Caracas to put an early end to his ‘honeymoon’ with Barack Obama, railing against the ‘infamy of Obama,’ demonstrated, in his judgment, by a State Department report listing Venezuela as a country that doesn’t cooperate in the battle against terrorism. … ‘We categorically reject this infamy of Obama against Venezuela; for if any government has acted against the governments of Latin America it has been the Empire of the United States.’”

Translated By Douglas Myles Rasmussen

May 2, 2009

Venezuela – Tal Cual – Original Article (Spanish)

President Hugo Chavez took advantage of International Worker’s Day celebrations in Caracas to put an early end to his “honeymoon” with Barack Obama, railing against the “infamy of Obama,” demonstrated, in his judgment, by a State Department report listing Venezuela as a country that doesn’t cooperate in the battle against terrorism.

“We categorically reject this infamy of Obama against Venezuela; for if any government has acted against the governments of Latin America it has been the Empire of the United States,” the president said at the event held on Urdaneta Avenue, where three government-sponsored marches converged after passing through various parts of the capital. Hundreds of buses were provided for the marchers, with people coming in from the interior of the country.

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