Chavez Frias rubs opposition noses with specter of Fidel Castro

www.vheadline.com Posted: Sunday, March 09, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Celebrating this weekend's International Women’s Day, President Hugo Chavez Frias has waved a red flag at the opposition and its Miami backers by thanking Cuba’s Fidel Castro for sending a cargo of sugar to Venezuela.

Commenting on the success of his government’s first special food supply campaign, Chavez Frias told his Sunday radio chat show audience that he would create a supply network called Mercal and set up places to sell articles of prime necessity.

Meanwhile, the President apparently continues deliberately to rouse the opposition's anger claiming “To God what is God’s, to Cesar what is Cesar’s and ... to Fidel what is Fidel’s.”