Comrade Bush?

Here's the opening sentence from an article discussing S. America's response to the crisis.

CARACAS, Venezuela — They don't call him President Bush in Venezuela anymore. Now he's known as "Comrade."

Now that the US is rapidly nationalizing banks, it is a good time for us to reconsider the reasons why we despise leaders like Hugo Chavez, right? Chavez is the first self-identified indigenous leader of Venezuela. It appears that a significant part of the socialist wave taking place in S. America is informed by Indian pride and values, particularly in Bolivia but throughout the reason. Clearly Indian pride is a threat to peace, democracy, and all that stuff that we've been exporting to places like Vietnam, Iraq, Guatemala, and the Philippines for the past century.

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