Chavez gives Venezuela - USA relations another blow

vcrisis.com ^ | 29.11.05 | aleksander boyd

[alekboyd]

29.11.05 | Hugo Chavez's spinmeisters love to sing the mantra "Venezuela wants to have the most cordial relations with the USA, based in mutual respect and understanding..." Well, how does the barring a BIPARTISAN US Congressional Delegation, from entering Venezuela, bodes with the aforementioned predicament?

It was not enough, for Chavez, to have orchestrated with Kirchner, riots and the subsequent media attack on Bush in Mar del Plata. Nor it was sufficient for him to call President Fox a "lapdog of the empire" -one has to love the irony in light of the dynamics of the Castro-Chavez marriage... Now the seudo revolutionary pariah has upped the ante by refusing entry to the Hyde-Lantos delegation, that surely was organized in advance by the terribly efficient Bernardo Alvarez Herrera and his VIO boys.

To me this is but another proof of Chavez's evident disregard for diplomacy and friendship, for let us not forget that most of the passengers of that plane simpathise overtly or covertly with the Venezuelan would-be dictator.

Surely, it is to be expected that some stupid airport official will be blamed for this. Or else the barring shall be attributed to some technicality. The fact of the matter is that a country that constantly brags about its intentions to repair relations with another, whilst subjects citizens from the latter to humiliations and harrassment, can not even pretend to be taken seriously. One has to hope that, after this incident, both Republicans and Democrats get to understand the meaning of friendship, according to the chavista abridged dictionary.

[RedCell]

Hey Chavez... blow THIS!

(sorry, but with a headline like that, I just couldn't resist)

[MNJohnnie]

Note to Moron Leftist. If Iraq was "All about Oil" we would of invaded Venezuela instead. We only get about 6 times as much or our oil from them as from the whole Middle East.

[MikeA]

This guy needs to be overthrown and the CIA needs to make it happen. Let the Congress impeach whoever they want after that. I couldn't care less. But this animal MUST go--even if at the cost of his sorry life.

And yes MSM, Pat Robertson was damned right to say Chavez needs to be tossed out of power. I know he's a hero to you and other America-hating lefties. But to normal people this man is a beast who must be cut down to size.

[penowa]

I heard something about this on Fox yesterday, but did not catch the whole thing. What were the Reps doing going to Venezuela? I can't figure out what they were doing when this happened. Do you know?

[M. Espinola]

For Hugo, like the saying goes, "Give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself". Hugo's rope continues getting shorter which each one of his anti-American broadsides.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks to the media at a news conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, November 28th, 2005. REUTERS/Howard Yanes

[Sam Cree]

So what was the purpose of the Hyde-Lantos delegation trip?

[reformedliberal]

According to FNC today, it was to open discussions on how to better relations between the USA and Venezuela.(seriously)

[livius]

Personally, I'd bet it was to discuss Spain's arms sale to VZ, which was signed yesterday and is verging on a hostile act by both Spain and VZ.

Obviously, Hugo doesn't want to talk about it...

[reformedliberal]

That makes a whole lot more sense.

I was working late, FNC on in the background, but I thought they were saying that the various dignitaries in VZ were claiming to have *known nothing*(tm) at all about any plane of US legislators, especially being ordered to not disembark, etc, etc, etc........

I have watched communists play these "come away closer" and "I hate you why won't you love me" games for too many decades now.
Quite boring and they always lose.

[Sam Cree]

Thanks.

[livius]

I'm sure they'd been ordered to say they had "no knowledge" of this.

Sadly, our press has barely reported the incident, and if it weren't for FR and the fact that I read the Spanish press (from Spain), I would never have known about it.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

MY CONGRESSMAN LANTOS???!!!

My "progressive" congressman (note, I do not use the word "representative") in league with the great Henry Hyde in an effort to promote democracy in Venezuela and the Andean Region? My congressman Tom Lantos denouncing the Castro/Chavez entente?

Next thing you know we'll be hearing that Tommy is actually pro life and spent the 1980's secretly funneling cash to the Contras.

Great news if it's true, and if so, does anybody have a graphic of pigs flying?