Vheadline.com - US Military: Post-Chavez Venezuela 2002 to pour oil on troubled waters

In an article published on a US military website significantly on April 12, 2002, the Pentagon analysts wrote: The oil markets — reacting to OPEC’s supply curtailments, threats of war, rising violence in the Middle East and political instability in Venezuela — have been on a roller coaster ride over the last month.

In reality, only the Venezuelan situation truly threatened to undermine market stability. With former President Hugo Chavez now removed from power, increased Venezuelan production should bring more stability to oil prices.

Jamaica Observer: Zoellick says Chavez must be stopped

A senior US official said yesterday Latin American nations must join together to protect democracy against a “creeping authoritarianism” now taking root in the region.

Robert Zoellick, designated by President George W Bush for the State Department’s No 2 position, cited in particular the actions of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whom he accused of doing “terrible things”.

Agentina Indymedia - Venezuela: Chavez como Allende?

Canadian Democratic Movement: Russian And Brazilian Arms Sales To Venezuela Could Prove Explosive

Among the most audacious, and perhaps the most ominous, moves made by Chávez in recent days has been his substantial and widely-publicized purchases of arms both from Russia, which has sold Caracas 40 helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikovs, and from Brazil, whose President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva added a surprise twist to the long-awaited summit with Chavez by agreeing to sell Venezuela approximately two dozen Super Tucano light attack aircraft.

BBC News: Uribe and Chavez ‘clear up row’

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe have “decided to turn the page” after weeks of tension over a diplomatic row.