Venezuela's foreign minister calls Kerry 'murderer'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Venezuela's foreign minister calls Kerry 'murderer'

BY ANDREW CAWTHORNE
CARACAS Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:40pm EDT

(Reuters) - Venezuela's foreign minister lambasted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday as a "murderer" fomenting unrest that has killed 28 people in the South American OPEC member nation.

Since street demonstrations began against President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government in early February, Venezuelan officials have been accusing Washington of stirring the country's worst political troubles in a decade.

U.S. officials say Venezuela is using them as a scapegoat, inventing accusations to distract from internal economic and political problems. In the sternest words during the crisis from Washington, Kerry said on Thursday the Venezuela government was using a "terror campaign" to repress its own citizens.

"Every time we're about to isolate and reduce the violence, Mr. Kerry comes out with a declaration and immediately the street protests are activated," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said in a speech carried on state TV.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/us-venezuela-protests-idUSBREA2D1J020140314

[delrem]

1. IMO Kerry has been acting a real beaut, here.

Well, here, there and everywhere he goes.

The "from Washington" aspects that I'm reading are too similar to "from Washington" aspects from the past, from the Reagan years to now.

I do NOT think Reagan was a great politician, a great unifier. He was a bad actor in his declining years, perhaps suffering from dementia, and the international joke was that one couldn't tell if he was asleep or awake. He proffered *lines* spoken in a sappy Jimmy Stewartish way, while his handlers did their stuff. I thought the whole world knew this, at the time I lived through it, and I was astonished to find that I was completely wrong.

I'm not surprised that Kerry is hardly a step ahead of Reagan, if that. I don't think any lessons have been learned - none at all - and I don't think there's anything but cosmetic differences between pro-Reagan anti-Sandanista cant from back then, and pro-Obama pro-Kerry anti-Bolivarian cant of today.

[Judi Lynn]

2. The bigots who have savaged President Obama & John Kerry the worst

are the ones whose policy they are following.

Simply tragic.

Your post was most appreciated.

[bemildred]

3. He was a puppet, like George W. nt