Chavez taunts Bush with tour

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez chanted his anti-Bush mantra of "gringo go home" on Sunday night (local time) in a friendly reunion with Nicaraguan revolutionary Daniel Ortega in front of thousands of cheering supporters.

With US President George W. Bush on a five-country tour of Latin America, Chavez is haunting the man he sees as his ideological nemesis, vowing to revive a global socialist opposition to the US.

As Bush traveled from closely allied Colombia to Guatemala on Sunday evening, Chavez and Ortega traveled 90 kilometers to the city of Leon, where they left flowers at the tomb of poet Ruben Dario and announced that Venezuela would build a new oil refinery nearby.