Chavez vows to help U.S. poor

Chavez vows to help U.S. poor: "September 18, 2005)

To thunderous applause and chants in Spanish of 'Chavez, friend, the people are with you,' Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strode into the United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew yesterday on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Chavez told the house packed with peace and anti-globalization activists and community and religious leaders that he would soon start to ship heating oil and diesel fuel at below-market prices to poor communities and schools in the United States."