Rueters reports on an upcoming Putin/Chavez summit in Venezuela:
“Russia will cement energy ties with its closest Latin American ally, Venezuela, when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin travels to Caracas this week for a trip that could also lead to arms deals that worry Washington.
Venezuela, South America's top oil exporter and a member of the oil producers cartel OPEC, is seeking funds and technology to help develop its oil deposits and is also seeking loans to buy Russian military hardware.
"We should expect a lot of big arms and energy contracts. When Putin has travelled recently to centres like India he brought back a lot," said Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of the magazine Russia in Global Affairs.
"It is always a good chance for Putin to show to the United States that we have a lot a friends all over the world."
Clearly all American problems with these two statesmen stem from (as our President would like to believe) being too confrontational.
See Also: Compare this conversation with this one to see what appears to be two very different relationships and power dynamics.
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