Chavez Congratulates Ahmadinejad

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and congratulated him on his landslide victory. Closer cooperation between Caracas and Teheran did not begin with Ahmadinejad’s election, since it had long been part of Chávez’s efforts to diminish Venezuela’s dependence on the United States as its primary energy export market, diversify its trade partners, and support the right of self-determination. Caracas and Teheran are said to be both price hawks when it comes to oil, which is another tie that binds. Nonetheless, Ahmadinejad, in terms of his economic program and base of political support, has much more in common with Chávez than Mohammad Khatami, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mostafa Moin, and other elite "reformists" do with the Bolivarian revolutionary. Watch how their relationship will develop.

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