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| Venezuela accuses US embassy of smuggling | |
| 2006-08-26 | |
Venezuela defended its decision to seize the cargo of a US Embassy convoy for alleged smuggling, while Washington formally protested the incident as a flagrant violation of diplomatic protocol. Justice Minister Jesse Chacon said Friday that Venezuelan National Guard troops did not violate international diplomatic conventions when they stopped trucks carrying cargo from a US military aircraft to the American embassy on Wednesday.
"It's not the Venezuelan government that is violating (diplomatic conventions), it's the US embassy that's violating them," Chacon told a news conference Friday evening. The State Department earlier Friday lodged a formal complaint with Venezuela over the seizure, saying it violated international diplomatic laws. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 I worry that he's a bit more than that. He has seriously intervened in elections in at least 3 other Latin American countries. The act that most bothers me is when his interior minister casually admitted a couple years ago that they "lost" 120,000 (or was it 20,000?) blank Venezuelan passports, ready to be filled in. Given the Islamic terror camps in the lawless area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet, and given Chavez' cozy relationship with Ahmadinajad, I think it's quite likely some of those "missing" passports are now filled in with the Spanish fake names of people from the Middle East. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-08-26 15:33 |
| #6 With all due respect, Mr. Fred, why would we bother? He's just a loudmouth Castro-wannabe, isn't he? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-08-26 14:54 |
| #5 If Bush wants to make it one. |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-08-26 12:54 |
| #4 Probably. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-08-26 08:43 |
| #3 act of war? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-08-26 07:56 |
| #2 Tickling the dragon is such a rush, ain't it, Hugo? Noriega used to think so, too... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2006-08-26 01:32 |
| #1 So what was the cargo? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-08-26 00:19 |