Posted on 03/25/2008 8:15:33 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Venezuela's Chavez blames U.S. for Tibet unrest
24 Mar 2008 03:57:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
CARACAS, March 23 (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez blamed the United States for violent protests in Tibet during the last two weeks that he said were aimed at trying to destabilize China.
In comments reported by his press office on Sunday, Chavez said the protests were an example of the U.S. "empire" "going against China" and trying to divide the Asian powerhouse.
Communist China has occupied Tibet, a Buddhist region previously ruled by monks, since a military invasion in 1950.
At least 19 people were killed after protests and rioting against the occupation broke out on March 10.
China has been widely criticized for a crackdown against the demonstrators ahead of August's Olympic games to be held in Beijing.
Some leftists in Latin America see the Tibetan independence movement led by the Dalai Lama as a pro-Washington group of conservative monks.
Chavez is a relentless Washington critic who says he favors a multipolar world to balance U.S. dominance.
He also refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent republic, saying the new European state is a U.S. imposition.
(Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel, additional reporting by Enrique Andres Pretel, editing by Vicki Allen)
Ping!
We also made China take over Tibet so they would look bad.
Venezuela’s Chavez blames U.S. for _______________ (fill in your choice of world chaos)
But of course we would encourage a few hundred unarmed monks to go up against a 200 million man army....makes perfect sense to me!!!....../sarc
Would that we could wave a magic wand and rid the world of Chavez and all those like him....
One of China’s biggest fanboys (Chavez, a.k.a. El pendejo Loco) blames the US for unrest in Tibet. Why am I not shocked?
He blames the U.S. when he gets stomach gas.
If he had that, he would know the truth...that we're to blame for every other problem in the world too.
He is scared that USA is so close to him and also jealous that USA is much stronger. He uses his own little evil mind to judge this greatest country on the Earth. If he were a better nam, he should have made his country better. Still 3rd world country, isn’t it?
Himself.
(Now that would be original.)
Hugo Chavez is to Hu Jintao as Monica Lewinsky was to Bill Clinton.
Why hasn’t this TURDBALL been flushed down into the septic tank of history?
Chavez regards the struggle for self determination as something deserving blame.
Bump.
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