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October 29, 2007 The American Security Council Foundation just released a "documentary" which paints Venezuela's democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez as a maniacal dictator attempting to take over the Western Hemisphere.  The documentary may be new, but the spin is a page out of Washington's decades-old propaganda playbook.

November 12, 2007 ... he came to visit the Bronx, he spoke to us for a couple of hours. He’s famous for speaking a couple of hours. He told us about all the things I have mentioned here. ... a horrible problem that we could be discussing here for hours. But my concern, and my reason for speaking on a ...

March 12, 2007 ... Latin America today said about seventy-two or forty-eight hours ago in one of his speeches, when he was announcing that ...

April 11, 2007 President Chávez and the Haitian people hit it off so well for reasons of principle and of practice. Haitians consider Chávez a leader in the global fight against the global power inequalities that keep people in Haiti, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America poor, hungry and uneducated. They see him standing up to the most powerful leader in today's world- President Bush.

October 29, 2007 Hugo Chavez's vision is to liberate the region's countries from IMF, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) control that condemn millions to poverty through their lending practices. Helped by windfall oil profits, his government is already doing it with an unprecedented commitment to provide financial aid and below-market priced oil to regional and other countries.

March 1, 2007 Cuban President Fidel Castro made a surprise call to Chavez's now daily program Aló Presidente, to talk about the state of the world, his health, and the historic moment Venezuela is in.

January 3, 2007 In a recent public talk in Boston, Prof. Chomsky talked about the recent elections in Latin America, which have brought leftist, governments to power that are challenging U.S foreign policy. Chomsky also spoke about Iraq and Iran in the context of Latin America.

February 22, 2007 In eight years, Chavez impressively transformed a state beholden to capital to one now serving all Venezuelans. He created real participatory democracy at the grass roots advancing the nation toward greater social equity and justice while George Bush neocons went the other way.