Venezuela at odds with asylum granted to union leader

[Judi Lynn]

Source: El Universal (opposition newspaper)

Caracas, Tuesday September 04 , 2007
Venezuela at odds with asylum granted to union leader

The Peruvian government decision to grant political asylum to the former president of the Venezuelan Workers' Confederation (CTV) Carlos Ortega so far has ignited no major reaction from the administration of President Hugo Chávez, who accuses the trade union leader of trying to overthrow him.

Minister of the Interior and Justice Pedro Carreño was the only government official who addressed the issue on Monday. "We advocate respect for sovereignty, freedom, independence, and self-determination of the peoples. We do respect the decision the sovereign government of Peru has made and abide by it. I guess they have their reasons," he said.




Read more: http://english.eluniversal.com/2007/09/04/en_pol_art_venezuela-at-odds-wi_04A985157.shtml

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For anyone who has been confused about the relationship of the Venezuelan media to the Chavez administration, take a look at this report, only two paragraphs, and consider how they got that inflammatory headline from the actual facts given in the story!

How many ways CAN you interpret "so far has ignited no major reaction from the administration of President Hugo Chávez?"

[ceile]

1. Oh, my!

That's a stretch. They must have pulled something when they came up with that.

[Richard Steele]

2. That headline is well past "misleading" and heading for "fictitious".

Yet, the Hugo-haters will swallow it whole, and argue
that it's really true. :silly:

[angstlessk]

3. I read the headlines..and the article and could not find a connection

how many just read the headlines and get pissed??? Of course people who read that newspaper are told how to think about the situation by the headline...rather than by the story.

[Bacchus39]

4. did you read the Spanish headline too? the language of the newspaper

the English translations are sometimes unclear. this one does not coincide at all.

Gobierno acata pero no comparte asilo a Ortega

The Government (Venezuela) respects but does not share (in the decision??) for asylum to Ortega


http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/09/04/pol_art_gobierno-acata-pero_453612.shtml

[Bacchus39]

5. here is another translation for you to ponder

on the conspiratorial implications therein:


Argentina applies for Antonini's extradition

"The Argentinean embassy in Washington made Tuesday at the US Department of State an application for extradition of Venezuelan businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, charged with money smuggling, diplomatic sources told Efe."


"Afterwards, the paper will be sent to the Department of Justice, which will act likewise and will resolve to forward the request to a judge of competent jurisdiction."


another:

"Fernando Araújo, the Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said Tuesday that he was waiting for the directions of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe to face the border dispute with Venezuela, which surfaced again during the visit paid last Friday to Bogotá by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez."


one you'll love actually it starts out pretty good:

"Last Wednesday, August 15th, Hugo Chávez Frías, the soldier, as he identified himself for the occasion, a sort of walking corpse of the history that refuses to be buried, appeared, inspired by Marxist Socialism, and announced that he will impose this ideology in the country, despite the opposition of Venezuelan citizens."

but ends poorly:


"Nothing different from those postulates is the part of the reform concerning the doctrinal and historical basis of the Marxist Socialism."

all these are on the English translation website. you know where to find it.