Posted on 02/25/2014 7:41:47 PM PST by kingattax
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is expressing concern about Venezuela's escalating political crisis and wants to meet with leaders on both sides in an upcoming trip.
Carter, a mediator of past political conflict in the deeply polarized South American nation, made the offer in private letters he sent this week to President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles.
Expressing "grave concern" about the loss of life in recent protests and the risk of more conflict ahead, Carter in the letter to Capriles said that for dialogue aimed at easing tensions to succeed both side must "send signals of their willingness to alleviate the present state of tension."
For the opposition, that means making clear its commitment to act within constitutional limits and strongly reject violence, the Nobel peace laureate wrote. In turn the government must guarantee the right to peaceful protest and impartial justice for jailed protesters.
"It is difficult for elected officials from opposition parties to resolve differences when they feel threatened and persecuted," Carter wrote.
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Well duh, they're all hard core Marxist/socialists/communists at heart. I'm hoping by November 4th every American will 'get it', be scared to death, and show up at dawn to Vote Every Democrat (Marxist) out of office. Then onward to planning for 2016. Can the country survive two more years?
I don’t mind if Carter goes to Venezuela. My objections would be if he decided to come back.
Naahhh!
Just Send buck toothed Jimmy to Cuba. He will be more comfortable among fellow Commies.
To show his support for Maduro? Maybe Jimmuh will disappear in Caracas.
I understand your thinking. I just have always hated Carter. I was only about 8 when Carter was elected. Trust me I hate Obama too, but there is something about “hating” somebody when you are a child that stays with you. They both suck big time!
Get guide Sean Penn. Him know insides.
Get guide Sean Penn. Him know insides.
Our second worst president of all time mucking things up again.
“hes going to try to rescue the communist regime he helped put in place”
Carter is a piece of work and no denying and undoubtedly likes “progressive/socialist” regimes, but how did he help to put the Chavez/Maduro regime in place?
Chavez was a young colonel or general when he attempted a coup in 1992 and was imprisoned by the Venezuelans for two years, he was elected president in 1998 and again repeatedly thereafter until his death.
Carter and his Carter Center personally "oversaw" the election that originally put Chavez in office.
The election was clearly rigged, yet Carter praised it and pronounced it a "model"...and approved the results.
Thanks for the link.
They have every time so far, so here's hoping for a first time.
If Carter is going there Communism must be at risk of failing.
Anyway...where is Sean Penn when the utopia needs him? When the governments jailing and killing was more discreet he was all in.
Coincidentally, recall the stillborn Honduras coup in 2009 -- when Manuel Zelaya, the existing President, attempted to succeed himself even though it was against the Constitution.
Zelaya was sheltered and supported by Chavez. The Army arrested him shortly after he returned to Honduras from Venezuela (in a Venezuelan AF plane). And they found in his possession a laptop loaded with phony election results from every precinct in Honduras. The winner, of course, was Zelaya.
Hmmmmmmmm...wonder where that laptop came from...
May he be mobbed by rabbits.
Or worse.
Perhaps he can stay there.
“Carter is a piece of work and no denying and undoubtedly likes progressive/socialist regimes, but how did he help to put the Chavez/Maduro regime in place?”
He helped give legitimacy to “elections” that were fraudulent. Then, no matter what Chavez did, Carter kept silent or said little. He’s really a socialist at heart. As one very good family-friend of mine said one time when I was detailing all the ways that Chavez was making a dictator of himself, he said, with no emotion or change of facial expression, in a very simple matter of fact way: “Well, at least he’s a socialist.” They can excuse anything if its done in the name of socialism. That’s Carter.
He did the same for the dictator in Zimbabwe, and I know people who were in the know, from Zimbabwe, who told Carter how wrong he was about Mugabe. He didn’t want to hear it.
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