[Peace-discuss] Venezuela: Obama is worse than Bush

[C. G. Estabrook]

	Venezuela: Obama is worse than Bush
	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:19:24 GMT

Venezuelan National Assembly President Cilia Flores
Head of Venezuela's top legal body has lashed out at President Barack Obama for
his undelivered vows of change in US policy.

The Venezuelan National Assembly President, Cilia Flores, strongly criticized
Obama for failing to overrule former President George W. Bush's doctrines of
war, adding that Obama's administration is "worse" than his predecessor's.

She slammed the US for following in Bush's 'footsteps' in "installing" military
bases in South America under the pretext of combating organized crime, a
reference to the recent stationing of US troops in seven Colombian military camps.

"When we thought there couldn't be anything worse than Bush," Flores noted,
along came Obama "masked" as the "hero of the film" who emerged as “more of the
same,” the Latin American Herald Tribune quoted her as saying on Wednesday.

Obama had repeatedly spoken of major changes in US foreign diplomacy, but his
failure to bring about the overhaul in America's international relations policy
has drawn fire from critics worldwide.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez once referred to the improbability of
significant change in Washington's policy and implied that the "young black"


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