Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

With every public appearance, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seems to be digging a bigger hole, each time with a lessened chance of getting out. In his recent televised speeches, he has ridiculed the American president and has begun to buy arms from its partner-countries. Chavez is trying to threaten the United States with the power he claims from the oil reserves he manipulates and exploits in Venezuela. If he continues to play with fire, he will get burnt. Controversy has arisen from his recent comments and extemporizing actions.

At the United Nations General Assembly in this past September, he unprofessionally slammed George Bush "And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today." He spoke of him that he thought he was the "owner of the world." Chavez spoke of Bush's democratic system as strange since he ruled it by "marines and bombs". The Venezuelan president should know better than to taunt the American empire. Recently he claims that the United States is concocting plans to topple his leftist democracy and assassinate him. Bush would be out to kill him before his American presidency expired in 2008.

Primitive signs of war are suspected when nations begin to mobilize for no apparent cause and buy arms excessively from anti-American countries. Venezuela plans to buy Russian fighter jets and 100,000 semi-automatic rifles. Canada's prime minister commented "It should be an issue of concern to the Venezuelan people. Millions of dollars are going to be spent on Russian weapons for ill-defined purposes." This purchase sparks up even more controversy within Venezuela, since Chavez is utilizing oil funds that are essential to the Venezuelan economy to buy weapons and equipment.