venezuela helps bush

Venezuela donates oil to poor Americans
Jan. 12, 2006 at 11:24PM
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Venezuela donated another batch of heating oil to U.S. poor, this time pledging to send a tanker of heating crude to Maine, Globovision TV reported Thursday. The world's fifth-largest oil exporter said it would give poor Maine residents 8 million gallons of heating oil at a 40 percent discount. Venezuela has already made oil donations to poor in the states of New York and Massachusetts. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been accused by the Bush administration of trying to promote his radical brand of socialism in the region, while the leftist leader accuses White House of meddling in Venezuelan affairs and of trying to undermine his administration.