The left-leaning Chavez is making a 10-day tour of fellow members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to invite every leader to a 40th anniversary OPEC summit planned for September 27 in Venezuela's capital, Caracas.
Respecting the international ban on flights to and from Iraq, Chavez drove across the border from Iran to al-Mundhariya, Iraq, where he was met by Iraqi Vice President Yasin Ramadan, Cabinet ministers and senior members of the ruling Baath party.
Chavez, who coasted to a re-election victory in July, is adored by the poor majority in Venezuela, which is home to 23 million people.
The band had played there a couple of times - first at a club, then at a bigger club âand now it was going to fill up the convention center with 3,500 kids.
Chavez said one of the reasons Adema hit it big is because the band comes from hardworking families from the agricultural center of California.
Chavez said the band went with Lippman because he was managing the producers they were working with (such as Miller).
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