* Originally in POLITICS
* Crossposted in CROSSFIRE

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM
Fri Mar 06 2009 17:13:48 ET

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US
President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as
the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us,
align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only
path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez
told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.

The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a
source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added
that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a
"higher" destiny and bring it out of "the sad role that it
has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around
the world."

Chavez said that people are calling Obama a "socialist" for the
measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it
would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of
"21st century socialism" that the Venezuelan leader is heading.

"Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the
Soviet Union would disappear? No one," he said.

"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has
to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include
human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez
said.

Later,
Sean

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