Venezuela Expels 3 US Diplomats
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
CARACAS - Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro announced the expulsion of 3 US diplomats during a live speech to Venezuela soldiers commemorating 200 years since the day when Atanasio Girardot died fighting for Venezuela's independence.
Maduro asked Foreign Minister Elias Jaua to expel the 3 US diplomats, giving them 48 hours to leave the country.
Maduro accused the 3 unnamed US diplomats of meeting with the country's "right wing" to plan electricity system sabotage.
We have sufficient evidence collected of the hostile, illegal and interventionist attitude of the officials, Maduro said. Out of Venezuela. Yankee, go home! Enough with the abuse.
Read more: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=1049644&CategoryId=10717
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 30, 2013, 05:27 PM - Edit history (1)
does this mean the the shortages plaguing the country are going to improve?
The electricity shortages will now end? Toilet paper? Food?
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)person online. She swears that there is toilet paper, electricity, and food. Seems she thinks I am a little loco for even asking these questions. But then again the American news is always right so I am sure she is lying while eating her chicken, typing on her laptop and possibly wiping her ass with toilet paper.
I will check with her later tonight after she comes back from her state provided university class.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)The hatred for social democracy in latin america is unfortunately not limited to free republic.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)I don't know where the emoticons are, otherwise I would have added that sarcasm thingy.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)then the content and jumped the gun perhaps. I don't doubt there are shortages. Hell we have a major drug shortage in the USA and it gets almost 0 notice. But hell it is always fun to point fingers at the commies and point out how horrible socialism is.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)Understandable.
I did add the sarcasm thingy now that another member so kindly told me where to find it.
This place is soooo cooool.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)Added it to my earlier comment.
This is sooooo coool.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Eugene
(61,595 posts)Source: Reuters
By Brian Ellsworth and Eyanir Chinea
CARACAS | Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:51pm EDT
(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday he was expelling the top U.S. diplomat in the South American nation and two others, accusing them of meeting with opposition leaders and encouraging "acts of sabotage" against his country.
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He said Venezuela was expelling Kelly Keiderling, who as U.S. chargé d'affaires is the senior American diplomat in Venezuela because the United States has no ambassador to the country. According to a U.S. Embassy website, she has been assigned to Caracas since July 2011 as deputy chief of mission, and was temporarily serving as the charge d'affaires.
Venezuela identified the other two diplomats as Elizabeth Hunderland and David Mutt. The U.S. Embassy had no immediate comment or confirmation regarding the expulsions.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-venezuela-usa-idUSBRE98T12M20130930
Archae
(46,262 posts)Made a fake Chavez recording.
http://www.ktsm.com/news/venezuela-recording-kidnapped-chavez-fake-president-says
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)He's a fucking nut.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)Or are you attempting to claim Democrats are commies? Republican assholes have been trying that since the days of drunken fool Joe McCarthy.
"Yeah, but he's anti US, so naturally that goes over really well here at the DU."
You are red-baiting here. You are distinctly out of place.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Would they?
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Why aren't they in jail?
stillcool
(32,626 posts)ever happened before. You'd think some diplomats were in cahoots with a spy agency or something. I remember reading an article about the different ways of using sabotage to create instability and some were very simple.
Zorro
(15,691 posts)He's an incompetent puppet for his Cuban masters.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)It's exactly the sort of thing that has been happening for many years. The US has a long history of undermining the will of the working class throughout Latin America and elsewhere. Why would anyone expect anything other than that?
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Nicolas Maduro's claims of plots against his life dismissed
September 27, 2013
... The Venezuelan leader, who returned home September 25 from a state visit to China, said he learned of threats against him from various sources during a stopover in Vancouver on his way to New York and decided instead to head back to Caracas. Maduro would have addressed the annual General Assembly for the first time since becoming head of state following the death earlier this year of long-time President Hugo Chavez ...
http://www.smh.com.au/world/nicolas-maduros-claims-of-plots-against-his-life-dismissed-20130927-2uj3x.html
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Within less than four hours, Maduro had accused the opposition of causing the blackouts through sabotage. A day or so after, Energy Minister Chacón attributed the blackout to a transmission line failure; he later said a metal grille fell on the line, producing a short circuit, and attributed this to tampering. The opposition has claimed the blackout was caused by government incompetence and inadequate capacity. Maduro stationed special security to guard the lines
It seems to me unlikely that the diplomats would be involved in planning such petty vandalism as tampering with a grill in hopes it would fall on a power line: rightwing US administrations, willing to play realpolitick games, have generally had more grandiose aims than causing a single blackout
Moreover, destabilizing Venezuela doesn't seem to me to be Mr Obama's style. And Kelly Keiderling appears to be a career diplomat with real language skills, not a ideologue
So my best guess is that Maduro is trying to save his political skin with a showy distraction
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Because...you know...diplomacy.
Nobody here liked it when Netanyahu was talking up Romney during the last election.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Is that the clown running the show was elected by people that are most likely much more intelligent than him. He is an embarrassment to the people and the country. They deserve much better than this nutcase.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)> The saddest part
> Is that the clown running the show was elected by people that are most likely
> much more intelligent than him. He is an embarrassment to the people and the
> country. They deserve much better than this nutcase.
Are you American by any chance?
You've just recycled the headlines from the rest of the world in 2000-2008?
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)There is no need for people like MoreAss to try and top his antics. And yes, I surrender to Apple Pie with cheese and ice cream.