US imperialists are " hard-pressed" to see the threat they pose to Venezuela  http://www.pr-inside.com/us-imperialists-are-hard-pressed-to-r1821825.htm

"They are so cynical that they criticize us just because we are trying to strengthen our defense," Chavez said.US imperialists spend more on arms than all of the other countries of the world combined. They have over 800 military bases scattered all over the globe which threaten all peoples of the world, including Venezuelans. The runaway military spending of the imperialist US regime has helped to bankrupt the regime, plunging the desperate regime into trillions and trillions of dollars of debt.The ongoing aggressions and occupations by the armed forces of the imperialist regime in DC are exterminating human beings at monstrous rate ...

2,000,000 war-related fatalities in seven years so far in Iraq demonstrated by a series of scientific mortality studies, an estimated 5,000,000 war-related fatalities in Afghanistan in nine years, and the fatalities in Pakistan are approaching the magnitude of the Iraqi and Afghan numbers, 30,000 occupation-related fatalities in the two year occupation of Haiti between 2004-2006 that was supervised by the Bush regime. As pretexts for its aggressions against other countries, the imperialist regime resorts to lies, facts, and everything between lies and facts.

The imperialist regime in the USA deploys huge non-combat private armies of US mercenaries ... 110,000 mercenaries in Iraq ... which conduct genocide or mass extermination operations against civilians of countries occupied by US imperialists. The savage regime of US imperialists operates a international network of 70 concentration camps that holds over 500,000 political prisoners, often kidnapped or "rendered" and often tortured or subjected to "enhanced interrogation" before many of them are murdered or "executed or neutralized extra judicially."