Chavez: US Confrontation
Inevitable
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez termed an
eventual confrontation
with the United States
inevitable, because of
its insistence in
turning the South
American nation into a
colony.
Chavez made his
nationally broadcast
remarks from the Teresa
Carreno Theatre
Wednesday in response to
a question by US
journalist John Lee
Anderson.
"While we want freedom,
they want to keep us
chained, we want to
bring light [education]
to our people, they try
to keep us in darkness,
we want a homeland and
they want a colony, how
can we prevent a
confrontation?" the
president responded.
"All what has happened
in the last few days,
the invasion of
Colombian forces into
Ecuador and the threat
against us, is part of
the empire's policy," as
was the lack of
curriculum for the
educational process.
Chavez, who was
attending the closing
ceremony of the first
stage of teachers'
training with a new
syllabus, said that
neglect of education in
Venezuela was part of
the oligarchy's plan to
rule over people in
ignorance.
He added that the US
maintains a group of
lackeys in every
country: "provides them
with financial support,
and they become very
rich and powerful
economically, militarily
and politically,
precisely to secure the
empire's colonial
policies."
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