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Machismo Flares: Mexico Severs Diplomatic Ties With Venezuela

2005-11-14

Note that the AP doesn't know the difference between sever and severe, lol.
Mexico to Severe Venezuela Diplomatic Ties

Mexico said it will withdraw its ambassador and severe [sic] diplomatic ties with Venezuela if that country's president doesn't apologize Monday for warning Mexican leader Vicente Fox: "Don't mess with me."
Perhaps Texas should sue Chavez for that bit, lol.
In a late-night statement Sunday, Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said that because Hugo Chavez's comments "strike at the dignity of the Mexican people and government, Mexico demands a formal apology from Venezuela's government."
"Mine's bigger than yours!"
Tensions between Fox and Chavez spilled over after this month's Summit of the Americas in Argentina, where Fox sought to defend a U.S.-backed proposal for a free trade zone while Chavez proclaimed the idea dead.
What's this talk of trade and jobs? Pfeh, leading socialista protesters is the Chavez style.
"President Fox left bleeding from his wound," Chavez said Sunday during his weekly radio and TV show, echoing remarks last week in which he accused Fox of being a "puppy" of the U.S. government for supporting its plans for the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
But the chihuahua has a bite...
Chavez recalled a folk song from Venezuela's cattle-raising plains about a thorn, saying it seems appropriate for Fox since "you're a man of horses." After reciting the lyrics, Chavez said: "Don't mess with me, sir, because you'll come out pricked."
Ooooh. Can't let that one pass!
Mexico responded within hours, saying a failure to apologize would force it to "ask for the immediate withdrawal of Venezuela's ambassador and a recall of the Mexican ambassador in that country."
Is there any mustache-cursing in the Latino culture - or does it demand instant escalation to comparing the size of the naughty bits?

Posted by:.com

#8 I'm all for arming both sides to the teeth with old weapons and letting them beat each other into the stone age.

Posted by: mmurray821 2005-11-14 15:50

#7 I'd rather give the LST's to Yugo.

Posted by: Creaque Sholuck2284 2005-11-14 11:12

#6 If the Mexican navy wants to borrow a few LSTs and some landing craft, we probably have some lying around in mothballs we could spare.

Posted by: Mike 2005-11-14 10:54

#5 Could be.

Mexico's also an oil producer, however, and therefore a natural competitor to Chavez.

Posted by: lotp 2005-11-14 09:36

#4 Ok, Fox is in the dog house with most Americans for his dumping of his poor and unemployables into their yards and running up local taxes and degrading public services in the States. So how can he get back into acceptable tolerated standing with the Gringos that is both mostly show and will not effect his standing at home, the economy, or real military adventurism. Can't pick on Castro. Too old and too much political capital spent in the hemisphere to make him the anti-gringo poster boy. Then how about the up and coming wannabe? Hugo, my man. Yes, there's the ticket. See the mighty Vicente demonstate his democratic-captialist orthodoxy by horse whipping the secondary lacky of marxism in the hemisphere. Now where's Don King to arrange the match?

Posted by: Angatch Omump4656 2005-11-14 09:28

#3 When's the next Mexico-Venezuela soccer game?

Posted by: Spineting Snese3606 2005-11-14 08:19

#2 Next stage is a pissing contest.

Posted by: mmurray821 2005-11-14 08:06

#1 The next stage of escalaion involves a flamenco danceoff.

Posted by: ed 2005-11-14 08:00

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