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Chavez greeted warmly at Harlem event
 NEW YORK - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Harlem's underprivileged on Thursday to tout a discounted heating oil program, a day after he triggered an uproar with his speech at the United Nations attacking President Bush. It was Chavez's second trip to New York. But while his visit to the Bronx last year passed largely unnoticed, Harlem was teeming with U.S. media on Thursday in the wake of Chavez's now-infamous United Nations reference to Bush as "the devil."Chavez didn't moderate his tone on Thursday, saying of Bush, "He's an alcoholic and a sick man." Chavez had few allies after his U.N. speech. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, one of Bush's sharpest critics, called the Venezuelan leader "an everyday thug." Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who represents Harlem, said in videotaped comments: "We resent the fact that he would come to the United States and criticize President Bush. ... You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district, and you don't condemn my president." Posted by: Fred 2006-09-22 |
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