Chavez Warns of US Military
Escalation
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
warned Sunday of increased international
tensions over the military escalation by the
United States and its allies around the
world.
"There are highly alarming elements: the
military exercises that the South Koreans
and gringos performed in the Yellow Sea; the
pressure on Iran for daring to develop
nuclear energy for peaceful purposes; the
mobilization of U.S. and Israeli troops near
Iran's coasts, and the violence in Iraq and
Afghanistan occupied by the empire," Chavez
said during his usual Sunday news
commentary, "Las lineas de Chavez."
The president also listed Israel's blockade
of Gaza with Washington's blessing as
another alarming factor.
Chávez highlighted that the Barack Obama
government "is proving to be, in words and
actions, the second Bush administration
(George W.), because it follows the same
line as a warmonger and the same strategy of
domination."
Chavez denounced the continuing and false
accusations by Obama government agencies
regarding alleged links between Caracas and
international drug trafficking, and the
surprising presence on unconvincing
explanations for thousands of U.S. marines
in Costa Rica and the overflights of Dutch
aircraft in Venezuelan territory.
He also mentioned as other reasons for
concern the violent destabilization plans
revealed in the wake of capture of
Salvadoran terrorist Francisco Chavez Abarca
on national soil; the Chilean Senate's
attempt to interfere in the September 26
elections and statements by the outgoing
Colombian government linking Venezuela with
Colombian guerrilla groups like the FARC and
ELN.
"What a picture! We would be naive if we did
not look at all of this aggression as a
whole; everything is related," he said. "I
think we are looking at a reenactment of the
U.S. imperial doctrine, which is facing the
new projects for the sovereignty of our
America" he stated.
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