Posted on 09/14/2006 2:44:29 PM PDT by RWR8189
Caracas, Venezuela, September 14, 2006 -Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Tuesday night that “Venezuela has not recognized the new Mexican government” and stated that they are “evaluating” the situation. Chavez made the statements at a Caracas event for the fifth anniversary of the Venezuelan Women’s Bank.
“I don’t want to interfere out of respect for the internal matters of the country, but of course we are worried about the situation in which the Mexican people are living and the circumstances under which the electoral process came about,” said Chavez.
Chavez announced his fears for “the strong accusations and evidence of strange things that may have taken place during the electoral process.”
“The foreign minister Nicolas Maduro said it first, and I second him. We are evaluating. Venezuela has not recognized the new Mexican government,” he said.
In a Press Conference yesterday, Rubén Aguilar Valenzuela, spokesperson for the Mexican President, responded to Chavez’ remarks by saying, “The declarations of commander Hugo Chavez do not deserve any comment.”
The Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Relations further announced last night that the comments from Venezuela and Bolivia “do not have any legal value.”
“The result of the electoral process in Mexico do not require recognition on the part of any other nation, it is the result of the institutions that that we, the Mexicans, have given ourselves,” it announced.
On September 5, Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal ended a two-month re-count standoff by unanimously voting to declare Presidential candidate Felipe Calderon, Presidential-elect. Calderon was declared winner by 233,831 votes, a margin of 0.56 percent, in Mexico’s closest election ever. With claims of fraud, Leftist candidate and former Mexico City Mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador refused to accept the results and vowed to hold a national convention in which delegates could elect him as Mexico's alternate president.
In all there were 375 electoral complaints in the Presidential elections, most by Obrador’s PRD party. A recount was held of 9% of the 41 million votes cast, and over 200,000 votes were annulled from both candidates for various reasons. Mr. López Obrador's chief petition before the tribunal, of a complete recount, was not granted.
Venezuela and Mexico have had nearly a year of intense relations, in which President Chavez did not attempt to hide his vocal support for Mexican presidential candidate Obrador in July’s elections.
Last November, during the Summit of the America’s in Mar de Plata, Argentina, Chavez called Mexican president Vicente Fox a “lap dog of the empire,” referring to the close relations of the Mexican government with the United States. Fox responded and a spat ensued in which both countries withdrew their respective ambassadors.
President elect Calderon, 44, is the former Mexican energy secretary, and has promised to follow Fox’ free-market, pro-business policies to create jobs and fight poverty. He has said that he is looking to increase collaboration with the Latin American nations and announced that he will “have a respectful relation with all of the heads of state without exception, including Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.”
According to El Universal, Fernando Canales Clariond, Mexico’s current Secretary of Energy announced yesterday that regardless of “the incidents that have occurred on other levels,” Mexico and Venezuela maintain “excellent relations” in energy cooperation. He stated that less than a month ago the two countries renovated the San Jose Pact, “one of the oldest running energy and financial cooperation agreements in Latin America.”
I guess Cesspool to Cesspool recognition is big in their cultures????
meet the new jefe, same as the old jefe.
I assume someone somwhere cares.
Mexico doesn't mind. They don't want the bad publicity. LOL
Trouble brewing. Look for Chavez to ramp up his aid to the Communists in Mexico's south. This may get very ugly in the coming years. Direct US involvement cannot be ruled out.
guess that wall wouldn't have been so expensive after all.
I would have started a 'blog topic about Chavez, but this nice one RWR8189 started looks like a good place. And thanks Chavez for doing this during the heat of the midterm election campaign:
Venezuela's Chavez urges pope to be more careful with his words
AP | September 20, 2006
Posted on 09/20/2006 10:47:27 PM EDT by Tailgunner Joe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705316/posts
Chavez: New arms deals to make Venezuela 'impregnable fortress'
DPA | Sep 20, 2006
Posted on 09/20/2006 11:40:52 PM EDT by Tailgunner Joe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705337/posts
Harkin defends Chavez
Radio Iowa | Darwin Danielson
Posted on 09/21/2006 4:04:05 PM EDT by jbwbubba
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705836/posts
U.S. Commander Concerned Over Venezuela’s ‘Exporting of Instability’
American Forces Press Service | Sept. 21, 2006 | Kathleen T. Rhem
Posted on 09/21/2006 5:57:50 PM EDT by Tailgunner Joe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705908/posts
Top U.S. Leader On S. America Warns Against Venezuela
September 21, 2006 6:35 p.m. EST
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004940286
Venezuelan President & Iranian President: A Study in Evil
By Sher Zieve
Sep 21, 2006
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_21240642.shtml
Chavez's rant demonstrates U.N. inadequacies
Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:13 AM EDT
http://www.nilesstar.com/articles/2006/09/21/columnists/ndcolumn01.txt
The Regionalist Perspective - By Joe Wood
Convenient Patriotism: A Low Down Dirty Shame in NY
By Joseph Wood
http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com/blog/joseph_wood/2006/sep/21/convenient_patriotism_a_low_down_dirty_shame_in_ny
Tepid Rangel, Pelosi Responses Are
Cheap Attempts to Stop Massive Backlash
September 21, 2006
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092106/content/stop_the_tape.guest.html
Diablo's diatribe
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, September 21, 2006
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/judi-mcleod092106.htm
[must see image]
http://images.canadafreepress.com/images/judi-mcleod0921.gif
Rangel to Chavez: 'You Don't Condemn My President'
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
September 21, 2006
(1st Add: Includes comments from Rep. Chaka Fattah.)
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200609/NAT20060921d.html
Three Democrats Defend Bush Against Chavez
Thursday, September 21, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215037,00.html
Democrats warn Chavez: Don't bash Bush
POSTED: 5:33 p.m. EDT, September 21, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/21/chavez.ny/
Leading Bush critic at home calls Chavez a "thug"
Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:43pm ET163
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-09-21T164252Z_01_N21334844_RTRUKOC_0_US-VENEZUELA-USA-SPAT.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-2
Harlem Congressman Rangel blasts Chavez for calling Bush 'the devil' in his district
RAW STORY
Published: Thursday September 21, 2006
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Harlems_Democratic_Congressman_blasts_Chavez_for_0921.html
LEADING BUSH CRITIC: CHAVEZ A "THUG"
Thursday, September 21, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=21788
Charles Rangel, Andy Card Rip Hugo Chavez
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006 2:03 p.m. EDT
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/21/141205.shtml
from the "more money than talent" dep't:
Why no press pictures of Danny Glover and hugo chavez today?
Yahoo News Pictures | September 21, 2006
Posted on 09/21/2006 3:56:40 PM EDT by Dane
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705829/posts
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