Chavez challenges U.S. with energy summit - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Chavez challenges U.S. with energy summit

By Brian Ellsworth
2 hours, 34 minutes ago

PORLAMAR, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
will seek to use oil wealth to consolidate regional support for his
anti-U.S. politics as he hosts an energy summit of South American
leaders on Monday.

But the meeting on the Caribbean tourist island of Margarita comes
as rifts have emerged across the continent over ethanol, with Brazil
working with Washington to promote the fuel in an effort Chavez says
will increase world hunger.

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While Chavez will seek to show unity with Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva, taking him on a tour early on Monday of a
petrochemical plant, the conference is unlikely to avoid the
controversy of ethanol.

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Venezuela, the fifth-largest exporter of oil to the United States, has
urged Latin America to pass over ethanol and instead rely on its oil
reserves and cooperate in developing ways to reduce energy
consumption.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/ts_nm/venezuela_summit_dc

[ret5hd]

1. anti u.s. politics??? or just pro-venezuelan and latin-america politics???

He's never attacked me or my set of values, so why the "anti-u.s." propaganda?

[Benhurst]

2. Exactly. We only get slanted news behind the Plastic Curtain. NT