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Posted on 04/07/2006 4:29:21 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
WASHINGTON — The State Department accused Caracas city officials of complicity Friday in an attack on the car of U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield in the Venezuelan capital.
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns summoned Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez to the State Department and told him that Venezuela was in violation of an international treaty that requires the host countries to ensure the safety of foreign diplomats, department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
The incident "clearly was condoned by the local government," McCormack said.
Pro-government activists bombarded Brownfield's car with fruit and vegetables and a group of motorcyclists chased the convoy, at times pummeling the vehicles with their fists.
McCormack said local government officials were handing out snacks to the perpetrators
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This Venezuelan thug needs a beating. He's getting too Iran on us. He's going ayatollah, and he's got to go.
hmmmm, maybe pat was right.
Somewhere out there is a JDAM with this sob's name on it.
So many countries, so little time...(sigh)
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He is a trivial pissant seeking attention like a 2 year old.
(apologies to a local pissant who might really be of some import)
Really?? I was kindve hoping it was a MOAB field test opportunity, but I defer to your judgement.
Geez I bet President Bush wouldn't tour San Fransisco, CA.
Or, he's getting too Cuba on us and is going Fidel.
He needs to be squashed like a bug. We've had enough.
When [Vice President Nixon] set off for South America in 1958, he anticipated an uneventful tour that would merely distract him from his attempts to talk the administration into cutting taxes at home. He was unprepared for the vehemence of the anti-American demonstrations he would encounter from those opposing U.S. policy toward Latin America. In Peru, Nixon was blocked from visiting San Marcos University by a crowd of demonstrators chanting “Go Home Nixon!” He was met in Venezuela by hostile crowds that spat at him as he left his plane. In the capital, Caracas, the scene turned violent. A mob surrounded his car and began rocking it back and forth, trying to turn it over and chanting “Death to Nixon.” Protected by only twelve Secret Service agents, the procession was forced to wait for the Venezuelan military to clear a path of escape. But by that time, the car had been nearly demolished and the vice president had seen his fill of South America. President Eisenhower sent a naval squadron to the Venezuelan coast in case they needed to rescue the vice president, but Nixon quietly left the country the next day.
He definitely needs an attitude change.
I clearly remember the Nixon incident. I was in high school and had a very good Government teacher who covered it thoroughly and we wrote papers on it. I would be curious to know if high school students are being made aware of this situation in class. I'll bet most aren't.
Nah, they're writing papers on more important stuff like what will Britanny Spears name her new baby.
I find it interesting that the moment we are focused on the middle east that commies suddenly start popping up all over the southern continent.
I smell Putin in this somewhere and the smell isnt pleasant.
Socialism is waning in europe and rising in S America
If we played by their rules, we would be seizing a few oil fields in compensation for the loss the ambassador's car and the assault on his honor.
Chavez called his dozen or so helicopters "perfect" for supporting the insurgency when the U.S. invades.
The invasion isn't going to happen but He'd better know what is going on in all of the windows etc. within a thousand yards of his location at all times. He has enough enemies at home.
No kidding.
DuuuuH!...
I'd bet Belafonte was there throwing bananas.
LOL!!!!
Good one!
I'm surprised that Hugo didn't have archers pick him off with the 'poison arrows' that he'll use to fend off us gringos. What a schmuck.
"I smell Putin in this somewhere and the smell isn't pleasant"
And I smell a superpower that is so afraid to flex its muscle that Rodney Dangerfield gets more respect and he's still dead.
Let there be a disaster in venezuala soon wherein only assistance from the United States military would be of any use and then let the United States decline and let the bastards rot. These tenth rate countries, 'scuse me, 20th rate countries, or maybe actually 270th rate countries that go out of their way to aggravate the big dog deserve to be bitten hard and often, and of those selected, not many need biting before they and the rest of the pack get very docile. What is there about hispanic culture which makes their leaders and people so volatile and stupid? Too many men with women's names or what?
Not Putin.
China.
China. China. China.
China and Hugo have been forging a very nice little friendship. China is hungry for Hugo's Oil and a bastion near the US. Hugo is hungry for Chinese arms and "friendship".
Seen this article?
Jewish World Review April 4, 2006 / 6 Nissan, 5766
Menace in Mexico
By Dick Morris
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In its debate over how to change the U.S. immigration system, Washington neglected the impact in Mexico — which faces a crossroads election this summer.
And Mexico's choice could not be more important to the United States.
On July 2, the Mexican people will decide whether to elect ultra-leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (known as AMLO) as their next president.
Rumors have abounded for months that Lopez Obrador's campaign is getting major funding from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. And last month Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz)., a moderate Republican, told several Mexican legislators that he had intelligence reports detailing revealing support from Hugo Chavez to AMLO's Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Chavez is a firm ally of Cuba's Fidel Castro. Lopez Obrador could be the final piece in their grand plan to bring the United States to its knees before the newly resurgent Latin left.
Between them, Venezuela and Mexico export about 4 million barrels of oil each day to the United States, more than one-third of our oil imports. With both countries in the hands of leftist leaders, the opportunity to hold the U.S. hostage will be extraordinary.
Think we have security problems now, with Vicente Fox leading Mexico? Just wait until we have a 2,000-mile border with a chum of Chavez and Castro.
Lopez Obrador is not inevitable. Recent polls show the candidate of Fox's National Action Party (PAN), Felipe Calderon, closing in. But much will hinge on the resolution of the immigration debate now roiling Congress.
Lopez Obrador has attacked U.S. attempts to restrict Mexican immigration and will benefit tremendously if Congress alienates the Mexican electorate. A recent survey by John Zogby found that two-thirds of Mexicans feel Americans are racist and biased against them. A harsh shift in U.S. immigration policies could fuel a leftist victory in Mexico.
Mexicans are deeply offended by the idea of a wall designed to keep them out. Building a wall on the boarder without also starting a guest-worker program will play badly in Mexico. A wall with a guest-worker program might go down better, particularly if the legislation didn't include punitive provisions making illegal immigration a felony.
I have worked as a consultant for Fox and PAN, so I appreciate the delicacy of the political situation in Mexico. In Fox's election in 2000 ened the 71-year authoritarian rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) heavily dominated by old corrupt leaders linked to the drug traffic, Now PAN has nominated Calderon, once Fox's energy minister, to run for president.
The PRI's candidate this year, Roberto Madrazo, is widely expected to finish third - the party is still identified in the popular mind with the corruption of the past.
Most observers see feel the race will be between Lopez Obrador and Calderon. While the PAN candidate would be no puppet of the United States, he is fully committed to free market economics and wants a close relationship with our country. Lopez Obrador would be part of the Latin America's new, anti-U.S. left in.
That Latin Left includes Venezuela's President Evo Morales, who won as an overtly pro-cocoa-cultivation candidate. And in Peru, Ollanta Humala, a Chavez ally, is likely to finish first in this month's election and probably will win the runoff.
But Mexico, with its vast oil resources and its long border and free-trade agreement with the United States, would be the crown jewel for America's enemies. We have only to hope that Congress won't pass legislation that alienates the Mexican electorate and delivers the country into AMLO's hands.
China.
China. China. China.
China and Hugo have been forging a very nice little friendship. China is hungry for Hugo's Oil and a bastion near the US. Hugo is hungry for Chinese arms and "friendship".
Indeed Chavez has a good "working relationship" with China but...
Just insert 'ass wipe' for pissant. I don't think there are any FReepers with THAT name.
That already happened. Vargas, 1998.
Bill Clinton spent $20 million to load up two or three navy ships after a hillside shantytown collapsed into the sea after heavy rains.
Clinton had the carriers at the Venezuelan coast within 24 hours and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez refused to let them in to help the people.
Total dead: 100,000. And the damn place still hasn't been rebuilt, you still see the heap of rubble and the strangely smooth, slick cliff as you fly into Maiquetia airport into Caracas.
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