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USA scorns Venezuela’s nuclear energy ambitions

A confidential cable from John Caulfield, the deputy chief of mission, said Washington had little reason to fear Venezuelan plans to exploit uranium with Iranian help and build a reactor with Russian help…….

WikiLeaks cables dismiss Hugo Chávez’s nuclear ambitions  guardian.co.uk Rory Carroll in Caracas guardian.co.uk, 9 December 2010 Leaked dispatches describe Venezuelan government as too shambolic and broke to exploit uranium or build reactors 

The US has privately scorned Hugo Chávez‘s nuclear ambitions as empty bluster despite Venezuela‘s energy deals with Iran and Russia.

US diplomats in Caracas played down the socialist leader’s plans to build nuclear reactors, saying the government was too shambolic and cash-strapped.

A confidential cable from John Caulfield, the deputy chief of mission, said Washington had little reason to fear Venezuelan plans to exploit uranium with Iranian help and build a reactor with Russian help…….

WikiLeaks cables dismiss Hugo Chávez’s nuclear ambitions | World news | guardian.co.uk

December 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, SOUTH AMERICA, Wikileaks