does anyone think Hugo Chavez would he be in Bush's Radar to be a major threat to USA?

Answer 1

Yes in the sense that Hugo Chavez now holds a lot of clout in the Global communists and socialists club as well as on south american politics. He has become very influential in the policy and politics there and is finding more allies all anti-American and anti-Bush to unite with in a marriage of convenience. His ability to also use the power of oil that his country possesses must be a source of worry. The USA does not have Venezuela as a major supplier of its oil but Chavez can still use his oil resources to control the worl price of the commodity by making threats, or reducing supply or selling at cheap prices to America's enemies.
Fact is with all these reasons even if Bush has cause for concern he cannot do anything overt such as declaring war. There are no currently justifiable reasons for such an action and even if there were, finding Global diplomatic support would be diffcult judging from the fall-out from the Iraqi conflict.

Answer 2

The best way to deal with Hugo Chavez is to ignore him. He's no real threat, has done basically nothing in his 8 years in office, and is probably going to continue doing nothing. He'll be another Castro, just a thorn on America's side, but no real threat when it comes to politics.

I mean... look at what's gone on in latam since he's opened his mouth. Peru, Mexico, and Chile have kicked out his ambassadors, he has horrible tensions with Colombia, Central America, except Nicaragua hate him. Just think of him as another Kim Jong Il, or Ortega, or Noriega, or Saddam, they're nothing but good anti-american PR but they wield no real influence.

The countries that actually do wield, or may wield influence (Russia, China, India, Australia, the EU ... which is not a country but still falls in the category ... and even Canada) those countries are all the real ones we should keep our eyes open for. You want see a real shinning properous star in Latin America, look at Costa Rica and Panama, you want to see the next big boys in the region, check our Chile and Brazil.

I wouldn't put it below Brazil to become the real big boys in Latin America.

Venezuela's just another North Korea... a commie egomaniac with a lot of oil.

Answer 3

Hugo can join Fidel Castro and become the center of the sphere of terror by threatening to keep their citizens out of the US. If we need Hugo's oil we will find a reason to take it. Who would stop us besides Mrs. Marcos and her influence over the world shoe trade organization. Fidel needs to hurry up and kick over so we can create another state that is warm for all the old corporate retirees. It was US companies that built the only infrastructure in Cuba and raped the land and people before Fidel, It is our turn again and Hugo better watch out he may be just as great as Fidel one day.

Answer 4

Chavez is a Banana Republic junta-ist. He puffs himself up, makes a bunch of grandstanding speaches, and then shows himself as a misogynist with female reporters, and doesn't know much about the authors of the books he tries to hawk. He is a disgrace, and Cuba would be wise to reign him in, since he is really just their guard dog. No. Venezuela isn't a threat. They don't intend to threaten. They just want to be left alone. So, let's leave him be. He'll get voted out, sooner or later.

Answer 5

Hugo Chavez was trying to get a spot on the Comedy Channel. He had been hoping to boot out Carlos Menendez, and I think this is the bigger threat.

Bush does not know what radar is but he needs to get Weed-Be-Gone to take care of all the root causes of things he makes up.

Answer 6

If bush had not tried to have hugo chavez overthrown when he got elected hugo chavez would have been bushes friend now instead of an enemy. if the truth be known bush is a threat to mr chavez.

Answer 7

i might in simple terms prefer to remark on Mr. Joe's answer: i think of that President Bush in simple terms considers Hugo Chavez a noisy mouth and an immature and surely exceptionally stupid individual. isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? a minimum of Chavez has the balls to stand up and tell the fact approximately Bush whilst something of the international extremely suck his as$.

Answer 8

No. The only potential problem I see is with regard to the deal Chavez signed to sell uranium to Iran. Venezuela has a lot of it. That could cause the US to initiate an embargo on any uranium shipped out of Venezuela. Chavez most likely would respond by cutting off the crude he sells to us (about 10% of our imported crude).

Answer 9

No. He is a tin horn dictator. Chavez is nationalizing private industry in Venezuela to give the poor people slightly more money, while reducing the wealth of the middle class (there is little of an upper class). He claims that the people have more money because of the great oil wealth, but he is not sharing the oil wealth with the country, he is sharing the wealth of the middle class with the country.

As far as a military threat Venezuela poses none. And Chavez is hoarding all the money the country is making on oil, so they aren't likely to be one anytime soon.

Answer 10

Although I don't think think he is a threat, Bush "sees" him as a "threat" to the safety of the country (although he is a threat to our economic interests in that area, like oil) and he has already put a hit out on him.