Chavez hails Russia for defying US with arms sale
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hailed Russia on Wednesday for defying a U.S. arms blockade by agreeing to sell fighter aircraft to his country.
Chavez will sign a $1 billion deal to buy at least 24 Russian Sukhoi-30 jets to replace oil-rich Venezuela's U.S. F-16s.
"I would like to thank Russia, the producer of armaments, because Russia has helped to sever the blockade that was tied by the United States around Venezuela," Chavez said in the city of Izhevsk in remarks reported in Russian by Interfax news agency.
"American imperialism wants to hold the world in its fist, but it will not succeed in this ...," he said, according to Itar-Tass news agency, during an earlier stop in Volgograd.
Chavez, who says he is preparing his armed forces to fend off a U.S. invasion, is set to cement growing ties with President Vladimir Putin at a Kremlin meeting on Thursday
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Chavez will sign a $1 billion deal to buy at least 24 Russian Sukhoi-30 jets to replace oil-rich Venezuela's U.S. F-16s.
"I would like to thank Russia, the producer of armaments, because Russia has helped to sever the blockade that was tied by the United States around Venezuela," Chavez said in the city of Izhevsk in remarks reported in Russian by Interfax news agency.
"American imperialism wants to hold the world in its fist, but it will not succeed in this ...," he said, according to Itar-Tass news agency, during an earlier stop in Volgograd.
Chavez, who says he is preparing his armed forces to fend off a U.S. invasion, is set to cement growing ties with President Vladimir Putin at a Kremlin meeting on Thursday
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
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