“...not designed to help poor people,” though it is
The oil price spike gave Chávez the ability to be innovative and mischievous, to come forward with amusing gestures and rhetoric. This also had the spice of a poor country delivering aid to a rich country and registered a tangy blow against Bush. It was irresistible.
Larry Birns, director, Council on Hemispheric Affairs,
[Chavez’s initiatives are] designed to embarrass us. It's not designed to help poor people. Chávez is astute, clever, with a major political agenda, largely to get under our skin, and he does that everywhere and anywhere he can.
Larry Goldstein, president, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation,
Manny Fernandez and Juan Forero, “
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