(15 May 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of Argentine presidential Palace "Casa Rosada"
2. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shaking hands with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez
3. Chavez and Fernandez leaving photo op
4. Pan of delegations meeting
5. Chavez sitting next to Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro
6. Close up of Fernandez
7. Chavez and Fernandez arriving at news conference
8. Wide of news conference
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President:
"Next week, on Wednesday, we are going to the eastern part of the country and we are going to get back - I'm not sure of the names of all the companies - but all the companies there, all of them that inject gas in the oil wells will be nationalised. Well, they already were, with a law we passed, but now we are going to effectively take them over and get back all those assets and operations. Socialism or death."
10. Wide of news conference
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President:
"Who's going to answer for the kids who died in Afghanistan just few days ago? Is the empire going to keep killing children, women, men, destroying people, blocking Cuba? That's the empire, but now that empire is sinking and it has to sink. I told Cristina, let's hope that Obama helps it sink and that he comes to our side and becomes the first socialist president of the United States. How do you like the idea?"
12. Cameramen
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristina Fernandez, Argentine President:
"It is clear that Barack Obama's administration has nothing to do with that of Bush and on that I think we all agree. There are those who see more determining factors which could prevent him from making the necessary transformations, and there are others, like us, who think those factors could be dealt with to allow the change to come. Now, those different perceptions do not turn us into adversaries, it is the other way around."
14. Presidents chatting to each other at the end of news conference
STORYLINE
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez welcomed her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez to Buenos Aires on Friday.
Fernandez and Chavez met at the "Casa Rosada," the Argentine Presidential Palace to discuss bilateral cooperation and integration issues as well as international matters.
Chavez spoke on the importance of stepped up nationalisation efforts.
State oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, has already taken control of two gas compression facilities in eastern Venezuela belonging to Williams Companies Inc., based in the US city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Chavez said on Friday that his government would nationalise "all the companies that inject gas into oil wells" in the region as his government continues its nationalisation of 60 oil contractors under a new law approved by the pro-Chavez National Assembly.
"We are determined to recover full petroleum sovereignty," Chavez said.
Chavez also urged accelerated regional integration - even more pressing amid the global downturn, he said.
On the heels of last week's launch of the Bank of the South, a regional development bank whose headquarters will be in Caracas, Chavez called for the creation of more institutions to serve as a counterweight to US-influenced international lenders.
Both leaders also spoke about relations between the US and Latin America and the role US President Barack Obama might play in renewing the ties between the two.
"It is clear that the Barack Obama administration has nothing to do with that of Bush," Fernandez said.
Chavez and Fernandez were expected to fly to the Argentine southern region of Santa Cruz.
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