Or maybe Bush will just invade Venezuela instead

Amy Goodman, God bless her, scores the coup of a pretty lengthy interview with Senor Chavez. Hugo says the U.S., in Operation Balboa, has plans to invade Venezuela. If that should come to pass, the U.S. will be in "embarked on a 100-year war."

I do really like Hugo's idea of moving the United Nations out of New York.

Hey, he's a politician, and he's played rough in the past, but at the very least he's paying lip service to the idea of spreading his country's oil wealth around.

Read the entire democracynow interview...

Also, the Globe and Mail has an account of Chavez wowing the crowds in New York. Interestingly, the Times hasn't seen fit to spare a reporter to cover Hugo's appearances in Manhattan.