[NYTr] Chavez Says US, Church Attacks Signs of "Decadence and Desperation" Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:55:30 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Prensa Latina, Havana http://www.plenglish.com Chavez Shuns US, Church Attacks Caracas, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) President Hugo Chavez called attacks against Venezuela and other Latin American countries by the US and the Church signs of US imperial decadence and desperation. Chavez presented an award to Ecuadorian philosopher and writer Bolivar Echeverria for his Book Vuelta de Siglo (Turn of the Century). At the ceremony he warned of threats by US Ambassador to Honduras Charles Ford against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya for attending in Managua the Sandinista celebration. One day later Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez demonstrated his subservience to the US by lashing at Venezuela and saying that "Chavez thinks he is God." President Chavez reminds that as a Catholic he will fight such attacks with authentic Christian thoughts and Liberation Theology of human beings. He also defended Venezuela's right to advance the process of boosting national awareness of the meaning of the Armed Force's adoption of the slogan "homeland, socialism or death." He called it a distinction from capitalist teachings at the School of the Americas and other ideology centers that trained most of the dictators that victimized Latin America. sus emw ml mf PL-14 * ================================================================ .NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems . Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us . .339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org .List Archives: https://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ .Subscribe: https://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr ================================================================