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US denies Maduro airspace access for China trip: Venezuela
AFP News ^
| September 19, 2013
Posted on 09/19/2013 5:29:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States has refused permission for President Nicolas Maduro's plane to fly through its airspace when the Venezuelan leader travels to China this weekend, Caracas said Thursday.
Maduro's government received word from US authorities that the plane was denied rights to American airspace over the Atlantic, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told reporters in decrying the decision as an "insult."
"We denounce this as another insult of North American imperialism against the government," Jaua said.
"No one can deny airspace to a plane carrying a president on an international state visit. There is no valid argument to refuse airspace."
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: latinamerica
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Fundamentally transforming foreign relations. This is just stupid.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Talk about holding grudges.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:30:46 PM PDT
by
seeker41
(take your country back by whatever means necessary)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Its that “more communist than thou” thing.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:32:00 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Oldeconomybuyer
What’s up with this?
I thought Chavez and his successor were tight with Baraq.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:32:34 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
WTH? This IS just stupid!
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:32:44 PM PDT
by
griswold3
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"No one can deny airspace to a plane carrying a president on an international state visit. There is no valid argument to refuse airspace." Didn't half of Europe deny passage for the President of Bolivia when they thought that Snowden was onboard?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Seems an odd move on our part.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:38:06 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dumb move by Obummer.
Maybe my geography is off.. but why would a plane from Venezuela to China crossover US airspace?
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:46:47 PM PDT
by
Arthurio
To: muir_redwoods
There is a bunker mentality in the WH, paranoia and infantile responses to what he/they are incapable of dealing with.
A very dangerous situation when these people have a finger on the nuke button.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:51:55 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: Oldeconomybuyer; All
Guess he needs to convert to Islam.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:54:52 PM PDT
by
gura
(If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
To: Arthurio
Air Venezuela uses Garmin GPS.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:56:14 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Arthurio
"Maybe my geography is off.. but why would a plane from Venezuela to China crossover US airspace?"
I was wondering the same thing, so I looked at my globe and did not see any reason why a plane flying from Venezuela to China would need to fly over US air space.
To: Arthurio
Maybe my geography is off.. but why would a plane from Venezuela to China crossover US airspace?Because the shortest route from Caracas to Beijing takes him over Maine.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:59:03 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: ChildOfThe60s
“There is a bunker mentality in the WH, paranoia and infantile responses to what he/they are incapable of dealing with.
A very dangerous situation when these people have a finger on the nuke button.”
AMEN.
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posted on
09/19/2013 6:08:44 PM PDT
by
July4
To: Alter Kaker
we’re so used to looking at the world map in 2d form, we forget that we could travel across north and south poles
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posted on
09/19/2013 6:12:01 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: 4rcane
Bitch if you go down halfway there though. :-)
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posted on
09/19/2013 6:12:58 PM PDT
by
gura
(If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If Bush had done this it would be all over the news and Brian Williams would be breathlessly and incredulously informing the LIV's about this on a minute by minute basis.
With King Zero? *crickets*. Insulting our neighbors is what Repubs do, doncha' know?
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posted on
09/19/2013 6:15:38 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Come on Nikkie, gas your people and Bammy will surrender to you too.
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posted on
09/19/2013 6:16:11 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: Alter Kaker
Stop off in Tehran or Moscow ... problem solved.
To: griswold3
The word “petty” comes to mid.
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