Chávez opens door to Aristide

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IN CAPITAL: Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., patrol Port-au-Prince. There were no shootings Monday night. TECH SGT. ANDY DUNAWAY/U.S. AIR FORCE




Posted on Wed, Mar. 17, 2004



PRESIDENT IN EXILE


BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND MICHAEL A.W. OTTEY


WELCOME

Chávez told a nationwide address Tuesday that ''the doors of Venezuela are open'' to the former president, who resigned and fled Haiti on Feb. 29, spent two weeks in the Central African Republic and arrived Monday in Jamaica.

Chávez echoed Aristide's allegation, denied by Washington, that he was ousted in a virtual coup backed by the United States and tricked into going into exile, and he criticized the lack of action by the Organization of American States.

''What silence with respect to the kidnapping of a person, besides a popularly elected president,'' Chávez said, blaming ``the troops of the country that shouts about democracy in the world.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8204244.htm

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1. There's a formula for...

disaster brewing.

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2. how so?

Chavez and Aristide seem like they'd be natural allies of one another. I'm sure they'd have a lot to talk about.

Is it a disaster for opponents of the U.S. to cooperate?

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3. Venezuela offers refuge to Aristide

"It's a snub to the United States -- the good-old `my enemies' enemies are my friends thing," said a Caracas-based diplomat, who asked anonymity.

Although Venezuela remains a leading oil supplier to the United States, Chavez has made a point of criticizing U.S. foreign and trade policy and befriending anti-U.S. states such as Cuba, Iran and Zimbabwe.

The Venezuelan president, who says Washington is trying to overthrow him, backed allegations by Aristide that U.S. authorities abducted him.

"He was kidnapped by troops of the country which preaches democracy to the world: the United States," Chavez said

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/2452688

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4. Locking

duplicate .. go here to discuss

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=425994