Chavez Calls McCain 'Man of War'; Wants to Improve Relations With Next President

hugo is just a weak wanna be castro and he uses anti-American statements to try and prop himself up.

Notice though that his approval rate is now at a staggering 37% and he is ordering his troops to take over sugar plantations now and make them co-opts.

www.latimes.com...

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Venezuelan armed forces occupied 32 sugar plantations Thursday, the latest in a wave of takeovers that some say is a bid by President Hugo Chavez to regain political momentum and reverse his recent slide in the polls.

The government last week said it would seize privately owned cement manufacturers, and Wednesday it said it would "renationalize" Sidor, one of Latin America's largest steel factories. A 1998 privatization placed Sidor in the control of an Argentine-Italian joint venture.

The president has seen his approval rating plummet to 37% in March from 50% last June and as high as 66% in December 2005, according to Alfredo Keller & Associates in Caracas, Venezuela.

Chavez suffered his first setback at the polls in December when he lost a voter referendum that would have expanded his power and enabled him to run indefinitely for reelection.

The inflation rate last year exceeded 20%, the highest in South America. Basic foodstuffs such as milk, chicken, beans and cooking oil often are difficult to buy.

So you see we have another despotic leader who can't really run things in his country so he tries to deflect focus away from his failings by making loud noises about an invented enemy.

See iran and the pa for other examples of this type of 'leadership'