Chavez declared he wants to "put the leftist stamp on the people, those who the imperialist gringos don't want or can't understand because of fear or ignorance."
"I think this leftist stamp in Latin America is going to spread throughout the world because the only the left can provide the transformation we need."
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, responding to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's comment that one of the "threats" facing the U.S. is that "Chavez and (Cuba's Fidel) Castro want to put their leftist marks on young democracies."
Reid is worried about Cuba and Venezuela turning other countries red. His own country is doing a heck of a job doing that in Iraq and Afghanistan. Different red.
