Chavez Threatens to Expel U.S. Ambassador
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. ambassador was "provoking the Venezuelan people" and threatened Sunday to expel the American diplomat, whose convoy was chased by pro-government protesters.
"I'm going to throw you out of Venezuela if you continue provoking the Venezuelan people," Chavez said in a nationally televised speech addressed to U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield.
The State Department said the incident Friday "clearly was condoned by the local government," with local officials handing out snacks to perpetrators at the stadium. U.S. officials accused police of doing nothing, saying a single city police car stayed well behind the convoy while motorcyclists pounded and kicked the ambassador's car.
The Caracas mayor's office denied involvement,
Chavez says the United States of plotting against him, an accusation American officials deny. The United States, however, has said Chavez is stifling democracy.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S.,President Roosevelt cancelled a hunting trip to deepest, darkest Africa, to pay a courtesy call on the 1st Marine Division stationed in Camp Pendleton, California.
"The boys are looking bully, simply bully," An obviously impressed President Roosevelt told a throng of reporters who had been pelting him with questions about Venezuela. "Their Commanding Officers tell me that each and every one of them is raring to do his duty, and to a man they've all been ordered to respect the womenfolk, ask for a Venezuelans, pardon, an enemy's surrender before shooting him in the face, and to be careful around oil wells so that they don't go starting any fires. Nowadays one can never tell when a Marine is going to be around an oil well."
3 comments:
Chavev is running the mullah's playbook step by step...
If we're not plotting against him someone needs to be canned for failing to do his duty.
Sweet christ on a crutch but I'd love to see us take this jerkwad down. Anyway we can.
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