Venezuela eyes three refineries in China

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela eyes three refineries in China
By

Reuters on Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday said he hoped to build three joint-venture refineries in the country to process Venezuelan crude, and construct a joint tanker fleet, upon arriving in China on the first leg of an international tour.

The two countries in May agreed to build a 400,000-barrel-per-day plant in southern Guangdong province, which is the first such investment deal between Caracas and Beijing, but Chavez is already eyeing wider co-operation.

"China is investing over there, Venezuela is investing over here. We are talking about three refineries, to bring our crude, which is heavy, and process it here in China," he told journalists minutes after stepping off the plane.

"We are also working on a project to construct a joint Chinese-Venezuelan oil fleet," he added.

More:
http://www.business24-7.ae/articles/2008/9/pages/venezuelaeyesthreerefineriesinchina.aspx

[Judi Lynn]

1. Chavez stresses importance of Venezuela's relationship with China on visit to Beijing

Chavez stresses importance of Venezuela's relationship with China on visit to Beijing
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Associated Press Writer
1:54 PM EDT, September 23, 2008

BEIJING (AP) _ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his country is no longer the backyard of the U.S. and that he finds it more important to visit Beijing than New York, as he arrived Tuesday in China's capital on the first leg of an international tour.

The outspoken U.S. critic hopes to boost ties with China's communist leadership through increased oil sales, partly to reduce dependency on the United States, which still buys about half of Venezuela's oil despite years of tensions.

"China is showing the world and has shown the world that it isn't necessary to harm anyone to be a great power," Chavez told reporters upon his arrival in Beijing. "They're soldiers of peace."

Asked about his absence from talks this week on the sidelines of the United Nations in New York, Chavez said: "It's much more important to be in Beijing than in New York."

More:
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-as-china-venezuela,0,4195921.story

[dipsydoodle]

2. Classic case of

you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Good on both countries.

BTW - don't you think that "backyard" is an awful expression. It implies ownership.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Oh, GOD, yes. It's as obnoxious as possible, and one cringes wondering what on earth

the people south of the U.S. border must think of any country with such grandiose views of itself that the entire rest of the hemisphere south is seen as a "backyard." It means we ordinarily don't even pay attention to what goes on there, unless they get out of line, as our attention is focused elsewhere.

That's actually the way they have treated Latin America in the news coverage here from the first. Ignore them completely, while American businesses bleed them dry, and all the moves are made covertly to overthrow populist Presidents and replace them with right-wing regimes, and pay off all the key people to keep things running smoothly, train their police forces, and their militaries to be wildly brutal and terrifying, train them in torture techniques, going back all the way to the Eisenhower administration, at least, when they hired mega-torturer, Dan Mitrione, who worked mostly in Brazil and Uruguay.

Dan Mitrione:
THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1979 A19
Torture’s Teachers
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/langguthleaf.html

Uruguay 1964-1970
Torture - as American as apple pie
excerpted from the book
Killing Hope
by William Blum
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Uruguay_KH.html

Assassination Attempts: Dan A. Mitrione Government Agent Part 1
About the assassination of Dan A. Mitrione a U.S. government agent, his biography and history in Uruguay.
http://www.trivia-library.com/a/assassination-attempts-dan-a-mitrione-government-agent-part-1.htm



A true demon, Dan Mitrione
named a great "hero" by Nixon

Looks as if these many, many people from the tip of Chile all the way north have learned from their bitter suffering, and are coming together, at long last, and they have so many well-wishers here, so many human friends who never even knew their taxes were being used to harm these people until decades later.

"Backyard." Almost could make a maggot gag. Racist, classist, filthy word.