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Caribbean-Latin America

U.S. to speak out on Chavez policies

2005-01-15

A very dangerous clown!

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has rejected recent overtures from the United States to improve the nations' strained relationship, prompting Washington to respond with a tougher policy toward the country, Bush administration officials said yesterday.

"You're gonna git it now, Hugo!"

An interagency policy review under way is focusing on political and diplomatic measures, rather than economic sanctions that might hurt the U.S. economy, the officials said. The administration, they added, will begin a broad campaign in Latin America soon, urging friendly countries to reassess their relations with Mr. Chavez and to speak up against his authoritarian and anti-democratic rule. "It is very clear to us that Chavez's unrelenting hostility toward the United States prevents him from pursuing a normal relationship," a senior administration official said. He said Washington had accepted Mr. Chavez's victory in an August referendum last year and had hoped to establish a more positive relationship with him, but all efforts to do so in the past several months have failed.

The attempts started with a message delivered by the new U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, who had to wait a month after arriving in the capital Caracas in October before Mr. Chavez received his credentials. Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Venezuela's ambassador to the United States, said he was surprised by those comments. "We have had extensive conversations with the U.S. ambassador and other American officials, and our vice president has said that we were willing to start talks about issues of mutual interest," the envoy said in a telephone call from Caracas.

Posted by:Anonymous4724

#7 OK, has the press learned anything about the ineffectiveness of "Appeasement" when a dictator is involved, now that the Bush administration has given them such an obvious lesson in it?

And Jimmy Carter, where are you now, you asslicking idiot?

Posted by: OldSpook 2005-01-15 12:24:26 PM

#6 OK, has the press learned anything about the ineffectiveness of "Appeasement" when a dictator is involved, now that the Bush administration has given them such an obvious lesson in it?

And Jimmy Carter, where are you now, you asslicking idiot?

Posted by: OldSpook 2005-01-15 12:24:26 PM

#5 leaddog2,

That will be a dream come true for this Venezuelan!

Posted by: Anonymous4724 2005-01-15 1:51:28 PM

#4 Just shoot Chavez. It will solve the problem cheaply.

Posted by: leaddog2 2005-01-15 1:38:29 PM

#3 I certainly hope the Norieaga-takedown plans have been dusted off and updated for a more southerly clime...

Posted by: Frank G 2005-01-15 1:01:05 PM

#2 "Murdoch?"

"Yes?"

"I'm coming to get you!!!"

Posted by: John Rambo 2005-01-15 12:38:34 PM

#1 OK, has the press learned anything about the ineffectiveness of "Appeasement" when a dictator is involved, now that the Bush administration has given them such an obvious lesson in it?

And Jimmy Carter, where are you now, you asslicking idiot?

Posted by: OldSpook 2005-01-15 12:24:26 PM

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