Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Still Mad

Not only did he insult Bush, he insulted the entire U.N. General Assembly. He went on to say that the General Assembly was "merely a deliberative organ" that meets once a year, and that, "We have no power, no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world,” which he intimated was mostly the fault of the US.

At the time, Bush was on a mission to gather as much support as he could for the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, which Chavez immensely disliked and seemed to take it as a personal affront.

When it came time for Chavez to have his turn at the podium, he said, “The devil [Bush] came here yesterday. And it smells of sulfur still today.” He faulted the U.N. General Assembly who politely listened to what the President of the United States had to say, telling the esteemed group—these were heads of state from all over the world—that their system was “worthless.”

He was an angry man, accusing the US of wanting to inspire and cultivate war rather than advocate peace, which was the exact opposite of Bush’s message. Bush was calling for world peace, but Chavez scoffed at the notion, hence the “devil” remark.

In addition, Chavez accused the US of always butting into the affairs of other nation’s disputes when its leaders should be more concerned with Americans at home. He even accused President Bush of “genocide,” and said that he should be “imprisoned.”

Well not much has changed in regard to Chavez’s feelings for the US. Even though there is a new president and a whole new political agenda, Venezuela’s president is still mad—but this time it is not because the US did anything; he is all fired up because of what the US might do.

Of course whenever Chavez wants to show his dominance over the US the first commodity he threatens is our dependence on oil and how he and his oil rich country will “suspend shipments…”

The latest angry tirade from Chavez toward America and everything American has to do with his  latest rift with neighboring Colombia. Columbia accuses Venezuela of giving safe haven to Colombian rebels, which made the dictator so angry he threw America into the argument simply because the US and Colombia share an alliance.

Chavez is worried that the US and Colombia are now going to conspire against him and his country by a show of “armed aggression,” which is why he threatened once again to cut off the oil supply, their biggest and most lucrative export, to the US.

In a speech this past Sunday, Chavez made his threat in front of thousands of supporters. He called the US the “Yankee empire,” and said that the US is “the big one to blame for all the tension in this part of the world.” He recalled once again the war in Iraq and how the US manipulates its world power to try and “topple governments it opposes.”

Most of the world, including the US, however, looks upon Chavez as a bully who likes to hear himself rant and rave more than anything. The reason being, Venezuela’s economy is based on revenue from its oil supply, and they can ill afford to lose the US as one of their biggest import customers.

But that does not stop Chavez from often accusing US leaders of trying to instigate a way to “topple” him. He claims that ever since he survived a rebellious attempt to unseat him in a 2002 coup attempt, the US has been after him. He sees the US using Colombia as a pawn to attain access to him and his regime, which the US has repeatedly denied.