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Posted on 02/07/2006 8:31:12 PM PST by proud_yank
UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. agency is in the middle of an escalating war of words between Washington and Caracas after awarding President Chavez of Venezuela its $5,000 Jose Marti prize, bestowed in Havana by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The prize, given by the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and, according to its Web site, intended to promote the heritage and values of Latin America, has been obscured from the public eye for more than a decade. As Friday's awards ceremony became an occasion for spreading anti-American sentiment, the Marti prize, and Unesco's choice of Mr. Chavez as its recipient, angered politicians in Washington and diplomats at Turtle Bay.
Messrs. Castro and Chavez seized the occasion to criticize the government in Washington, taking advantage of the prestige of the United Nations and Unesco, which, like Turtle Bay itself, draws 22% of its annual $305 million budget from American funds.
"They will forever try to preserve the U.S. empire by all means, while we will do everything possible to shred it," Mr. Chavez said during a 2 1/2 hour long speech before 200,000 people gathered at Havana's Revolution Plaza, with Mr. Castro by his side, according to the Associated Press.
"We don't believe that Chavez represents the ideals embodied by this prize," the spokesman for the American mission to the United Nations, Richard Grenell, told The New York Sun.
"It is astonishing and beyond the pale that a man such as Chavez, who poses a very real threat to democracy, not only in Venezuela, but in the entire region, and has engaged in virulent anti-American attacks, was honored by Unesco," Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican of Florida who has been active in her state's anti-Communist Cuban emigre community, said in a statement.
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Oh yeah, Iran is in trouble now that they have to answer to these guys...
What do you expect when the UN is ran by the Russians and Chinese?
Something like this doesn't surprise me, but the fact that we still give this group of thugs as much money as we do certainly does.
The leftists are pushing the Islamists for sure. Global socialism will be a bigger enemy than Islam. In fact, Islam is blending in with the global (and U.S.) leftist message. Look forward to big problems. When Al Jazeera International starts broadcasting in May, we will see Al Franken's, Michael Moore's, Soros', Chomsky's, Indymedia's, etc. dream voice come true.
Well, it's time to cut providing portion of the UN budget. Let the UN starve to death and let us switch to the "coalition of the willing" for international affairs.
If I were you, I would be very afraid of AJI. Look for it to have a major effect on our elections.
When America chose the UN for it's god I suspect they need to reap where they have sown.
Are they planning on using the title 'Al Jazeera', or will they title it something western?
I just pray that the UN winds up in history's dust bin next to the League of Nations.
Al Jazeera International. Period.
As a side note, both O'Reilly and Cavuto have interviewed someone (can't remember his name) who has joined AJI from the American media. You may be able to search FNC archives for the transcripts.
Dave Marisch of CBS/ABC fame?
Since there is already a Power over all the world, that is exactly where this one will end.
MSNBC
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