CBC: Give Bush 'gold medal for hypocrisy,' Chavez says

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would award "the gold medal for hypocrisy" to U.S. President George W. Bush, who is in Latin America trying to repair his reputation in the face of anti-U.S. sentiment.

Chavez mocked Bush for expressing concern about poverty in Latin America — economic hardships the leftist Venezuelan leader largely blames on the United States.

"You've got to give the U.S. president the gold medal for hypocrisy, because he's said now he's worried about poverty in Latin America," Chavez told reporters during a one-day visit to Buenos Aires, where he will lead a leftist rally on Friday.

"Now he's discovering … after so many years that there's poverty in Latin America, precisely when the U.S. empire is the principal culprit," Chavez said.

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