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Monday, March 23, 2009
News Hugo Chavez calls Obama an 'Ignoramous'
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Well, this is a fun game: leaders poking at each other like they're on a playground. Remember when King Juan Carlos of Spain told Chavez to, "shut up," after Chavez called former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar a "fascist" in 2007? No? Read about that incident here.
In other news ...
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America."He goes and accuses me of exporting terrorism: the least I can say is that he's a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality," said Chavez, who heads a group of left-wing Latin American leaders opposed to the U.S. influence in the region.
Chavez said Obama's comments had made him change his mind about sending a new ambassador to Washington, after he withdrew the previous envoy in a dispute last year with the Bush administration in which he also expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.
Read the rest of this Reuters article here.
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