Hugo Chavez to the US ambassador: Pack your sh*t and leave

[marmar]

Can't say I blame him. Beware of Friedmanite neocons bearing gifts.


via Yahoo!:



Venezuela's Chavez says US ambassador must leave
By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, Associated Press Writer
43 minutes ago



CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave Venezuela in 72 hours and said he was immediately withdrawing his ambassador from Washington.

Chavez said Thursday night that U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy is no longer welcome, just as his close ally Bolivia expelled the American envoy from La Paz a day earlier.

"They're trying to do here what they were doing in Bolivia," Chavez said, accusing Washington of trying to oust him.

"That's enough ... from you, Yankees," he said during a televised rally, using an expletive.

The socialist leader said Venezuela's ambassador to Washington, Bernardo Alvarez, would return to the U.S. "when there's a new government in the United States."

The move by Chavez brings relations with Washington to a new low and raises questions about whether the diplomatic clash could hurt trade. Venezuela is the fourth-largest oil supplier to the United States, and Chavez threatened on Thursday to cut off crude shipments "if there's any aggression against Venezuela." ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us

[liberalmuse]

1. Well, Bush has been his enemy.

I'm not saying Chavez is an angel or anything, but the Bush administration has pulled some really serious shit on him, and I really don't say as I blame him.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I can't help but thing

There's more string pulling and button pushing go on than we are aware of.

I've learned these past 8 years - on on top of a solid upbringing that was steeped in "Question Everything" - that generally when world leaders are po'd at the US they have a good reason and our media is hiding it from us.


He's reached out directly to Putin in the past. If he view him/Russia as an ally - I can't say I blame him.

[progressoid]

3. Jezuz, this administration can't do anything right.

[Cleita]

4. That ambassador ought to be grateful to Chavez for looking after his

safety. I'm sure when Obama is elected, a more enlightened ambassador will be welcomed in Venezuela.

[Pavulon]

5. I am sure....

that a democrat will act in the interest of a foreign power...mmm not. Either party will flip him out of office when it suits out interests.

If he gets cozy with russia he might as well hang himself. Save us the tax dollars.

[Cleita]

6. A redux of Chile isn't going to happen so easily this time.

I'm hoping that Biden consults with people like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn before he tries to retread the diplomatic policies of the past. They won't work anymore.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Yes, it's only taken the US people 35 years to figure out what has been

going on at an elevated level and over the 45 years before that.

We can thank Wolfkowitz for making an xxx of himself - his personality helped many to understand more about the World Bank and IMF.

We learned about predators from the U.S. setting up the coup of Aristede and installing criminals and muderers to rule over those people. We learned France was in on it.

We learned from Perkins about the corporate world invasion of all those countries.

We learned about the crimes of Pinochet and the involvement of ITT, Alcoa, the CIA and State Dept plus the media (including a now much loved journalist).

We learned about how they disappeared people in Argentina and Chile - dumped them out of aircraft over the ocean - of course, the So Americans might have done that without the help of the CIA.

We learned all the tactics of regime change.

We learned how the CIA did drugs and guns with Nicaragua.

How we massacred Guatemalans and Salvadorians.

We learned how the partnership between Noriega and Bush Sr ended with Noriega spending decades in a FL jail.

Only recently, Bechtel and a French businessman both tried to make Bolivians pay them for the water under their own feet - God's gift to the people belonged to Bechtel and the Frenchman, according to the dictator-invaders. The barons are still salivating over the precious metals and gas/oil.

We learned how Democrat and Republican leaders kissed Cuban-Americans and gave them everything they asked for to maintain hate and an embargo against Castro - which really meant that Cuban-americans did it to their own relatives and old friends and acquaintences. All originating with their allegiance to the former dictator who loved the U.S. Mafia and CIA.

Oh, and then there was the war we declared on Grenada (Reagan). What was that about? I forgot.

Then we had a failed coup against Chavez.

Perhaps the one that is at the top of the list because it is in the present moment.... the Bush admin is harboring a terrorist - the one who blew the Cuban sports team out of the air - the team was on their way - TO VENEZUELA.

We really crapped on the people of this hemisphere with the exception of generations of certain President/Military Dictator-leaders who we set up to run the countries into the ground by following directions from the World Bank and IMF and our State Dept and with the help of certain people in Europe. The leaders who are still 'living-it-up' in Malaga or Palm Beach or Paris/Madrid.

The current leaders of some of the So Am countries are now trying to set up their own banks.

Re Obama: I don't like the 'me too' statements of Obama against Chavez - he appears to be backing Bush and Cheney and Ms Rice - against Venezuela. Let those people alone and make them your friend, Barak.

[Cleita]

9. Today September 11, 1973 is also the anniversary of Kissinger's coup in Chile

that assassinated President Salvadore Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet at the USA puppet dictator in a country that had been a democracy since it gained independence from Spain.

[AlphaCentauri]

7. seems like you are correct, the policies for latin america have never change

either party have order or ignore all the massacres committed there in our behalf

[NNN0LHI]

10. Add one more country to the list without any US military presence

Seems to be all the rage lately.

Don