Chávez is giving away oil to Caribbean island nations and Cuba, and buying off Argentine debt to help President Nestor Kirchner’s political fortunes. In Mar del Plata, Argentina, last month, he openly participated in a rally against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), in the company of, among others, Evo Morales, the coca-leaf growers’ leader from Bolivia who might well become that country’s next president.
查韦斯将石油赠送给加勒比岛国和古巴，替阿根廷清偿债务以为该国总统基什内尔增加政治运程。上个月，在马德普拉塔布，他公然参加反对美洲自由贸易区的集会。参加者中包括莫拉雷斯，他是来自波利维亚的古柯叶种植园大亨，有可能成为该国下届总统。