VENEZUELA

Times of India: Foreign powers should get hands off Iraqi oil: Chavez
AP [ SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2003 04:17:50 PM ]

RECIFE: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that foreign
powers
shouldn't meddle with Iraq's oil and that interference was a return to
"colonialism." "Iraqi oil should be handled by the Iraqi people,"
Chavez
said after arriving in this northeastern city. "Otherwise it would be
going
back 200 years, and I don't want to think that the new century is
beginning
with colonialism."