Rice talks with foe of President Chávez

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tue, Jun. 07, 2005

VENEZUELA
Rice talks with foe of President Chávez

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered her hand to President Hugo Chávez's representative and had a private meeting with one of the top opponents of his rule in Venezuela.

BY JANE BUSSEY
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday took another sly jab at Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, meeting in private with the woman who helped arrange a recall vote against him and who met with President Bush two weeks ago.

Chávez's government angrily denounced Bush for his meeting with María Corina Machado, accused in Venezuela of illegally accepting U.S. funds for her political activist group, Súmate. It claimed the White House meeting amounted to U.S. support for the president's opponents.

On Monday, on the edges of the Organization of American States General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Rice met with Machado -- separately, not as part of the group of officials from nongovernment groups that she also received.

Rice also held a meeting with Cuban exile groups and the foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community, but skipped other bilateral meetings with foreign ministers from other parts of the Americas.
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Rice also met with representatives of several Cuban-American groups and, according to a pool reporter present, hinted that the Bush administration was close to naming a transition coordinator for Cuba -- a special post called for in a Bush administration study last summer of possible post-Castro policies.
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[Supersedeas]

1. the good Professor is giving unilateralism a pretty face...no?

[saigon68]

12. Hateful lap-dog of Bush Planning to kill Chavez

She and the CIA already have him in their sights.

[AX10]

13. María Corina Machado = Terrorist

Chavez must stand strong against her. She is the Bin Laden Of his country!

[pinerow]

2. Hate to say it...but when I see Condi Rice only one word

comes to mind...and that is the "C" word...confused!!!... i mean let's face it...the so-called expert on the Soviet Union got it so wrong for so many years...and she is supposed to be a genius....sheesh

[Benhurst]

4. She got her Ph.D. from the University of Denver, known

for attracting the most brilliant doctoral candidates from around the world. :sarcasm:

[reprobate]

15. She'll do the perp walk just like the rest of this administration.

Tho I'm not sure the gallows awaits her like some of the others.

[flordehinojos]

3. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CLOSE TO,"NAMING A TRANSITION COORDINATOR FOR CUBA

?

how very arrogant of them!

do the cubans in the island have no say on who they want as their next leader after fidel castro's natural death whenever it occurs?

are the bushes preparing to stage a soon to be invasion of cuba?

but whether they are, or not ... those words must have sounded like smooth nectar to the rabid right wingers, ileana ros-lehtinen, and lincoln diaz-balart, sitting on either side of condoleeza rice as bush, the man who looks like he still has not lost all of his baby teeth, mouthed those incredibly arrogant words for the purpose of riding a high horse on to the south florida cuban american contaminated soil!

even when he, does not, horses ride, or,truth, tell

[donsu]

6. the bushgang wants Cuba back and will BBBT and M to get it

bully, bribe, blackmail, threaten and murder

that's how they operate

[flordehinojos]

10. true, true, true ... that is exactly how they operate, and that is exactly

how those right wing batistianos also operated back in Cuba. some of them still do. i.e., posada carriles and bosch.

[LynnTheDem]

11. Now, now. We know what's best for the people of Cuba.

They're not capable of dealing with their own country themselves.

They've been living in dirt & poverty their entire lives and know nothing about what's best for them.


Hell yeah this is total :sarcasm:

[donsu]

5. just who is this Maria Corina Machado????

who is financing her. what are her ties to the criminal bushgang?

[AX10]

14. María Corina Machado = Terrorist

simple.

[Debau2005]

7. Me...Confused!

I am not a PhD holder from Univ of Denver, so maybe I am just too stupid to figure this out...

Is there not some international law stating that you can't go into another country and advocate or support an opponent of the current leader?

[tlcandie]

8. Well, let's see...

How would this admin treat someone who came to the US wanting to uproot our beloved regime/government via coups, slight of hand, etc.?

Treason you say?


:shrug:


EDIT:
OR you can be like the US and just INVADE... :+

[Sandpiper]

9. Ironing out the details for the next Coup

And probably asking if she needs more NED money.

[Raiden]

16. Yup!

I think you got it!