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Venezuelan Warns of U.S. Overthrow

Rodriguez, one of Chavez's closest advisers, has been the main strategist behind Venezuela's push to rally other leading oil exporters to cut production and jack up world oil prices. A Marxist guerrilla in the 1960s, Rodriguez later became secretary-general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Jack up world prices - what a joke. Peak oil, then, fits nicely with the planning of neo-conservatives if their tools in the media are any indicator. For the time being. Those rascally Marxists!

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