The venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday that his disparaging and caustic comments on George Bush are ‘nothing personal’ and his opposition to Bush was due to ‘deep ethical, political, historic and geopolitical’ reasons.
Chavez is renowned for his invectives and diatribes which he regularly throws at the US president George Bush. He never loses a chance to launch a verbal attack on the US president.
Chavez calls the United States a ‘terrorist state’ for invading Iraq. Even Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, was not spared. Chavez has called Rice, a Ph.D. who taught at Stanford, an ‘illiterate who seems to dream about me.’
Chavez has called President Bush a donkey and a drunkard in the past.
Hugo Chavez took his war of words with the United States to the floor of the UN General Assembly where he called Bush ‘the devil’ and denounced what he called US imperialism.
Last week, when Chavez was attending an ‘anti-imperialist rally’ in Buenos Aires he called Bush ‘a political corpse.’
The antagonism is so thorough that he coined a slogan ‘Gringo, go back’ and popularized it in his speeches when he undertook a rival tour against Bush’s Latin America tour last week. Gringo is a derogatory term in Spanish and Portuguese languages and is used in Latin America to refer to foreigners from different cultures especially from the United States, but also from Canada, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, including in some cases countries of Latin America itself.
Chavez’s political career has come to be characterized by his scathing anti-America and anti-Bush remarks.
