Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he had set up a fund for victims of the tsunami that left more than 150,000 dead, and displaced millions in southern Asia.
With the slogan "one bolivar for Asia," Chavez encouraged the viewers of his Sunday television and radio show, "Alo, Presidente," to make donations in the local currency, the bolivar, at two state-owned banks.
"It is not enough for our country to make a donation," Chavez said during the program which resumed broadcast after a month-and-a-half-long hiatus. "I want us to turn this (donation drive) into a national cause."
Chavez said he would make a first donation of $150,000, with the money coming out of a human rights prize he received from a foundation named after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Wall Street Journal articleWith the slogan "one bolivar for Asia," Chavez encouraged the viewers of his Sunday television and radio show, "Alo, Presidente," to make donations in the local currency, the bolivar, at two state-owned banks.
"It is not enough for our country to make a donation," Chavez said during the program which resumed broadcast after a month-and-a-half-long hiatus. "I want us to turn this (donation drive) into a national cause."
Chavez said he would make a first donation of $150,000, with the money coming out of a human rights prize he received from a foundation named after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Hysterical. Particularly amusing is the idea of having a human rights award named after Qaddafi. A fashion award, maybe. But, Mr. Chávez wouldn't be in the running for that one.
Thinking again about that fashion award, Georgie might enter that contest.
At any rate, will our Brat King raise his measley personal ten grand offer, or will he let the lefty demon deal it a tsunamical blow like that?
P.S.
"Get some devastation in the back."
-- Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), quoted by the AP, to a staff photographer taking a picture of him before leaving tsunami-stricken southern Sri Lanka.
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-- Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), quoted by the AP, to a staff photographer taking a picture of him before leaving tsunami-stricken southern Sri Lanka.
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