Chavez denies reports of
rows with Brazil, blames
U.S.
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez on Sunday
denied media reports
that he clashed with his
Brazilian counterpart
Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva at a Thursday
meeting, saying the
United States was behind
the reports.
"That is the handiwork
of the Empire, but it
will never achieve its
goal of making us
fight," Chavez said
during his Sunday radio
and TV show "Hello,
President."
At the Thursday meeting,
Chavez and Lula,
together with their
Ecuadorian counterpart
Rafael Correa, discussed
the building of the
ambitious Grand Southern
Gas Pipeline: an
8,000-km,
20-billion-U.S.-dollar
project intended to link
western Venezuela to
Argentina, via a main
pipeline that crosses
Brazil, with branches
connecting Uruguay,
Paraguay, Bolivia and
Ecuador.
Chavez said Venezuela
and Bolivia have the
largest gas reserves in
Latin America and called
on South American
nations to unite.
"The great goal of the
petrochemical revolution
is to convert Venezuela
into a world
petrochemical power,"
Chavez said. |
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