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US accuses Chavez of destabilizing Latin America
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US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, seen here on 22 September 2006
AFP
WASHINGTON
Petroleumworld.com 09 26 06The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, accused Venezeluan President Hugo Chavez on Monday of using his country's oil wealth to destabilize other Latin American nations.
Asked on Fox News television if Chavez posed a danger to Washington following his anti-US speech at the UN General Assembly last week, Bolton said the leftist president has formed a "very close bond" with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
"Unlike Castro, though, he has enormous revenues from oil. And he's already done a number of things in other countries in the hemisphere, in Latin American countries, to destabilize their democracies," Bolton said.
"So this is something we do take seriously," he told Fox News.
Chavez called US President George W. Bush the "devil" during his UN speech last week.
Chavez also attacked what he called US "hegemony" and "imperialism" and renewed calls for drastic reform of the United Nations to reduce US influence.
AFP 25 2242 GMT 09 06
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