Follow-up: Chavez lambastes Bush over “democracy” remarks

Yesterday we mentioned how one should expect “at any moment now” a response by Hugo Chavez (image) to remarks made by John Negroponte over the threat to democracy posed by Chavez. The Venezuelan leader made true on our prediction by blasting both Negroponte and President George W. Bush by calling them “criminals” who deserve to be on trial for war crimes. Chavez also said that Bush should “quit” as president and that Bush is running a “dictatorship” that threatens the world.

(Apparently, Chavez “forgot” how the National Assembly approved a bill on Wednesday strengthening his ability to rule by decree. Then again this is yet another round in the juvenile verbal sparring between Chavez and the Bush administration).

Links- The Latin Americanist, ABC News, Guardian UK, Globe and Mail

Image- Washington Post

Tags- Venezuela, Bush administration, Hugo Chavez, international politics