Chavez Wants Anti-US Military Alliance

(Caracas, Venezuela) Presumably after chewing several cuds of coca leaves and settling in for a day of paranoid delusion, President Hugo Chavez called for a military alliance to be formed to oppose U.S. imperialism.

Mr Chavez has some key allies in his fight against capitalism, globalisation and the US.

Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and now the Caribbean island of Dominica are all members of a trade alliance known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a group that takes its name from South America's independence leader, Simon Bolivar.

Mr Chavez has urged them to draw up a joint defence policy and create a united military force against US imperialism.

"If the US threatens one of us, it threatens all of us," he said, "we will respond as one."

It sure seems like Chavez is planning for war.