Bush’s vision for Latin America He calls for strong democracies in response to leftists
Brasilia, Brazil – President Bush, in tough remarks aimed at Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, called Sunday for Latin America to choose between competing futures – an U.S.-supported “vision of hope” and another that “seeks to roll back the democratic progress of the past two decades.”
Such a democratic retrenchment, the president said, would be “playing to fear, pitting neighbor against neighbor, and blaming others for their own failures to provide for their people.”
Bush spoke before Brazilian business leaders, diplomats and students at the luxury Blue Tree Park Hotel here in the capital, and did not mention Chavez by name.
But his barbs at Chavez, the fiery, populist president of Venezuela, were clear and, in effect, were Bush’s response to Chavez, who led an anti-American rally of more than 25,000 people on Friday in Mar del Plata, Argentina, while Bush was attending a summit there.
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The spiritual leader of 200 million-plus Orthodox Christians met with Mexican Roman Catholic bishops Wednesday in Mexico City, working to build stronger links with the Catholic world ahead of a possible meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in November.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew told reporters that he will probably meet with the pope at his headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, at the feast day of St. Andrew on Nov. 30.
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