Well, we knew it was going to be interesting. Can't wait for the news to come out of today's meetings.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias has again accused the United States of plotting against his reform government and said he would be raising the issue of US interference in Venezuela's domestic politics at the Summit of the Americas conference which begins tomorrow, Monday, in Mexico. In a vitriolic war of words between Washington D.C. and Caracas the Venezuelan leader has chided Bush adviser Condoleezza Rice as "illiterate" and said he would warn the world from Monterrey of a White House inspired plot to undermine his democratically-elected government.
Meanwhile, rather than tackle any of the alleged problems head on, Spanish-speaking US President George W. Bush will be cold-shouldering Chavez at the Monterrey summit while Condoleezza Rice heaps coals on contention by stating that Chavez' open dialogue with Cuban leader Fidel Castro as well as his criticism of the unilateral US invasion of Iraq and its support of right-wing dictatorships around the world is "not playing a constructive role in Latin America." On Friday, Rice said that there are roles that Venezuela has played that "have not been very helpful" to USA hegemony throughout the region.
Amazingly uninformed, Rice specifically called on President Chavez Frias to "abandon efforts to block a vote on cutting short his term" ignoring the fact that it is the duly-appointed (Venezuelan) National Elections Council (CNE) that decides, not Chavez Frias ... much less Rice and/or Bush. article
Stay tuned.
(I like that phrase, don't you? Stay tuned. The stuff that happens when you're tuned is just amazing.)
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Monday, January 12, 2004
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