Cuba and Venezuela criticise US at Alba trade summit

[Lars77]

Source: BBC News

Cuba's President Raul Castro and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez have criticised the US during a key alternative trade summit in Havana.

Mr Castro accused the US of treating Latin America as its "backyard" and denounced a deal giving US armed forces access to Colombian military bases.

Meanwhile Mr Chavez said US criticism about Latin America's relationship with Iran was an "imperial offensive".

Both were speaking at the opening of the left-wing Alba summit in Havana.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8411178.stm

[EFerrari]

1. This is so much not how I hoped this new administration would handle

its Latin American policy. Supporting a coup in Honduras, trying to create an incident in Cuba, threatening Bolivia, Ven and implicitly Brazil over relations with Iran.

At least Bush IGNORED Latin America for the most part.

[boppers]

3. Wasn't Bush supposedly "plotting" against Hugo and Fidel?

I seem to recall some crazy assassination theories... and there was the coup...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093001317.html

[boppers]

2. Water: It's wet!

News at 11.

[Braulio]

4. Blah blah blah

Cuba and Venezuela criticizing the US isn't exactly big news. It sounds like two mice chatting and complaining about the neighborhood's feral cat.