Chavez sends Brazil sulfur for "devil" Bush visit

AYACUCHO BLOCK 6
Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez, who mocked George W. Bush as the devil in a U.N. speech, said
on Wednesday he was sending sulfur to Brazil for the U.S. president's
visit there next month.

During a tour of an oil reserve with his Argentine counterpart Nestor
Kirchner, Chavez held up a small vial of the pale-yellow element and
said he would send to their fellow leftist ally and Brazilian President
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Echoing his mock complaint last year at the U.N. General assembly that
the podium reeked of the substance after a Bush speech, Chavez said,
"It smells of sulfur here, comrade."

"I am going to send this vial to Lula for when the little gentleman
comes so that he can place it out there in Brasilia," Chavez said with
a laugh.