- Spat between Vicente Fox and Hugo Chavez involves Mexican
presidential election. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Mexican
President Vicente Fox a "lap dog for the empire" over the Mexican
leader's support for George W. Bush's dead-on-arrival Free Trade Area of
the Americas. It is clear that the Bush administration relishes the resulting
diplomatic spat between two of Latin America's major oil producers. As
Venezuela and Mexico recalled their ambassadors from each other's capitals,
Chavez warned Fox that if he didn't let up, he would be "stung."
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- Fox is clearly worried about the 10 point lead in presidential
election polls of progressive former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador, an ally of Chavez. Obrador leads Roberto Madrazo, of the main
opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a party with a long
history of corruption, in polls for next year's presidential election.
Fox's National Action Party candidate, Felipe Calderon, trails a distant
third, a fact that clearly rankles Fox. '
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- Obrador and Bolivia's populist leader, Evo Morales, stand
a good chance of being elected presidents of their countries and joining
Chavez in an anti-Bush bloc of Latin American states that will also encompass
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Cuba. Nicaragua's Sandinistas
are also poised to make a comeback.
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