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Jan 23, 2006 

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Here's something interesting I just found. It's clo in 2006, spamming folks to promote Venezuela's Marxist leader, Hugo Chavez, and bashing the 'imperialistic' United States. I didn't understand until now that Venezuela really is the standard in clo's mind for our country.


Jan 23, 2006 at 8:55 AM

From: Claudia
To: RagingBullRound@yahoogroups.com

CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan 23, 2006 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX)--
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is
hosting one of the world's largest anti-globalization, anti-war
events starting Tuesday - and the timing couldn't be better.

Leftist leaders are increasingly popular across Latin America,
while Chavez's own "revolution" for the poor has become an
inspiration for like-minded activists everywhere from Canada to
Chile.

Organizers predict as many as 100,000 people will attend the
World Social Forum this week in Caracas, including campaigners
against U.S.-style free trade, environmentalists, Indian leaders
and human rights activists.

Their views span a wide spectrum, but most participants appear
united by strong opposition to the U.S. government and the war in
Iraq. The forum will begin with an "anti-imperialist" march
Tuesday through the streets of Caracas, with protesters likely to
aim their chants against U.S. President George W. Bush.

"Venezuela has become an epicenter of change on the world
level," Chavez said Friday, mentioning the event in a speech.
"That's why (U.S.) imperialism wants to sweep us away, of course
... because they say we are a bad example, but they haven't swept
us away and they won't."

The Venezuelan leader is expected to address activists on the
sidelines of the gathering, soaking up the spotlight as a leading
radical voice of the Latin American left.

The World Social Forum was first held in Brazil in 2001 and
coincides each year with the market-friendly World Economic Forum
of national leaders in Davos, Switzerland.

Those at the social forum, in contrast, traditionally
criticize
free trade and the evils of capitalism - stances that closely
mirror Chavez's socialist views.

"The U.S. government, especially under the Bush
administration,
has been trying to force its own economic polices on developing
countries, and I think all of us here agree that must stop," said
Jeff Monahan, a 32-year-old organic farmer from Battle Creek,
Michigan.

"I'm sure there will be plenty of Bush-bashing when this gets
underway," said Monahan, who arrived early and was helping put up
canopies in a city park where thousands will camp out in tents.

Some 2,000 events - including seminars, speeches, concerts and
craft fairs - will be held across Caracas during this week's forum.

More than 60,000 participants had signed up as of Monday,
organizers said. But an estimated 100,000 in all were expected for
the six-day event, said Carlos Torres, a Montreal-based Chilean
organizer. About half the attendees were expected to come from
outside Venezuela.

"The world is changing, and I think leaders like Chavez can
provide interesting examples of what can be done to ensure it
changes for the better," said Moritz Lange, 24, who came from
Bremen, Germany, to help to organize the forum.

Others expected to attend include Uruguayan writer Eduardo
Galeano, Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel
and American anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed
in Iraq in 2004 and who set up a protest camp near Bush's ranch in
Texas last year.

It remained unclear whether other leftist leaders from Latin
America would come. Some activists said they hoped to see
Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia or Fidel Castro of Cuba. Brazil's
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva initially was expected, but then said he
would not come.

The recent rise of left-leaning governments in Bolivia,
Argentina, Uruguay and Chile makes the event a timely forum to
exchange ideas, said Miguel Tinker Salas, a Latin American studies
professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

"It's an opportune moment, given what's happening in Latin
America and the fact that it brings together these various
political forces on the left," Tinker Salas said in a telephone
interview from California.

This year's social forum is being held in three spots around
the
world, including one ending Monday in Bamako, Mali, and another two
months from now in Karachi, Pakistan.

Groups from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil were coming in
caravans of buses and cars, while two Colombian environmental
groups were pedaling bicycles hundreds of miles (kilometers) to
Caracas.

Cyclist David Torres, of the Freedom Horizons Foundation, said
in an e-mail during a stop along the way that his group hopes to
promote bicycles as an environment-friendly transportation
alternative.
Copyright 2006 Associated Press, All rights reserved
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