Although Venezuela is now flush with oil wealth, "being rich is bad," he says. The US, a "terrorist state," is the main buyer of the country's oil. And in a newly-declared war on capitalism, free-market investors are the new conquistadors of Latin America, but the South American nation recently laid out the 'red carpet' for a visit by the chairman of US oil giant. ChevronTexaco. Mr Chavez is quick to criticise Mexican leader Vicente Fox as a "puppy dog" of US imperialism, but he has no such disapproval of Brazil's equally neo-liberal president Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva. Of course, it may all be rhetoric, designed to inspire his growing base of supporters among the urban poor. But Mr Chavez's '21 st century socialism' is enough to put mining company managements in a spin.
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机译：他说，尽管委内瑞拉现在拥有丰富的石油资源，但是“富裕是坏事”。美国是“恐怖主义国家”，是该国石油的主要购买国。在最近宣布的一场反资本主义战争中，自由市场投资者是拉丁美洲的新征服者，但这个南美国家最近为美国石油巨头董事长的访问铺上了“红地毯”。雪佛龙德士古查韦斯很快就批评墨西哥领导人维森特·福克斯（Vicente Fox）是美帝国主义的“小狗”，但他对巴西同样是新自由主义的总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·席尔瓦（Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva）却没有如此反对。当然，这可能是夸夸其谈的目的，目的是激发他在城市穷人中日益壮大的支持者基础。但是查韦斯先生的“ 21世纪社会主义”足以使矿业公司的管理层旋转。
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