[ppi] [ppiindia] Chavez's cheap oil for US poor angers Washington

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seperti apa yang dilakukan Chavez, siapa yang akan marah? 


http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/11/24/1132703314620.html


Chavez's cheap oil for US poor angers Washington
By Alec Russell in Washington


November 25, 2005
Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, has pulled off his greatest public 
relations coup yet in his campaign to irritate the Bush Administration with a 
deal to supply cheap fuel to thousands of poor residents of Boston and New York.
To the anger of many in Washington, Citgo Petroleum Corporation, a company 
controlled by the Venezuelan Government, will supply more than 45 million 
litres of oil at 40 per cent below market prices.

The deal is one of the most spectacular moves yet in Mr Chavez's attempt to 
market his "21st-century socialism" using his country's oil wealth.

While it will not change many minds in Washington about his populist and 
autocratic regime, Caracas hopes it will bolster Mr Chavez's claim as the 
coming leader of an anti-capitalist Latin America. Mr Chavez, who once dubbed 
President George Bush a "genocidal madman" and led a huge anti-US protest 
earlier this month, first proposed his fuel offer in August when oil prices 
were at a record high after Hurricane Katrina.

Joe Kennedy, the chairman of Citizens Energy, one of the organisations that 
will distribute the oil, said the deal highlighted the failure of oil companies 
in the US and the Government to step in to help.

"Our government has made billions of dollars just this year on the royalty 
payments the oil companies pay to the Government," he said. But when it is a 
question of poor Americans, "what do we hear from Washington? Sorry boys. 
There's no money in the till."

To promote his dream, Mr Chavez has offered cheap oil and refineries to his 
neighbours and pledged financial support for regional development programs.

All the while he has positioned himself as a rival to Washington, accusing the 
Bush Administration of plotting a coup against him, and predicting the imminent 
demise of American capitalism.

The US on Wednesday threatened to block a record-breaking arms deal under which 
Spain would sell ships and aircraft to Venezuela, claiming that the ?1.3 
billion ($2 billion) arms deal with Mr Chavez could destabilise the region.

The deal, due to be signed in Caracas on Monday, would be a huge boost to 
Spain's ailing shipyard industry and to the rest of its defence industry.

"Those air or naval platforms include US technology," the US ambassador to 
Madrid, Eduardo Aguirre, said on Wednesday. "We have not yet decided whether to 
grant our permission for obtaining that technology."

Telegraph, London; The Guardian


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