Top Venezuela Diplomat Says U.S. Reaction Leaves Doubt After Call for

[steve2470]

Chavez to Be Killed (rest of headline)

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBSMYELUCE.html

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's foreign minister criticized the U.S. government for stopping short of condemning remarks by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said at a meeting in Bariloche, Argentina, on Thursday that the U.S. reaction had been "a bit strange," according to a Foreign Ministry statement issued in Venezuela.

"There has been no forceful condemnation by the United States as everyone expected," Rodriguez said, according to the statement.

He also said Robertson's comments were clearly a crime of incitement but that no legal proceedings have been opened in the United States.

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[Orrin_73]

1. It would not surprise me

when someday Hugo Chavez dies of an assasination. Who could be behind it??????

[getmeouttahere]

2. He's right, it's not even close...

to being a condemnation! Venezuela and the rest of the world should continue to ask for nothing less than a strongly-worded condemnation, at the very least.