Chavez: I'll be at U.N. summit on horseback if needed

[cal04]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would travel alone to the U.N. General Assembly in New York -- on horseback if necessary -- after slamming Washington for denying visas for his security and medical team.

"They denied visas for my security and my doctors. They don't want my advance party in New York," Chavez said on Thursday when arriving in communist Cuba for a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement of developing nations.

"I'm going even if I have to go alone, with Fidel ... (and) on horseback," said Chavez.

Chavez constantly lambastes the United States and has tried to rally countries to an anti-U.S. front to promote socialism around the world. Washington accuses Venezuela of using its oil wealth to destabilise democracy in the region.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1360762006

[Fridays Child]

1. Moments like this expose the pettiness that pervades...

...the B*sh administration.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It would surely make killing him far easier if he traveled here without

his bodyguards, wouldn't it?

Denial of his essential personel is absolutely FILTHY.

Looks like one more reason to relocate the UN. The world doesn't need a nasty little brat playing "Keep Away" with the United Nations, with such unacceptable risks for people _Bush doesn't like.

[cyclezealot]

3. Was it not China suggested the UN be moved out of the US.

Actually, this should be against US treaties. We have no right to deny any Nation access to the UN.

[0rganism]

5. the answer to "What do China and Amb. Bolton have in common?"(nt)

[cyclezealot]

8. Seems I once read, the

US has obligations to the UN to allow it's approved members access to the New York area. They are limited to within so many miles from the UN. ?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Chavez says US seeking to stop him attending UN summit

Via Raw Story:

Chavez says US seeking to stop him attending UN summit
Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Thursday September 14, 2006

Havana- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday said the US has sought to prevent him from attending a United Nations summit of leaders next week, by denying visas to much of his personnel. "The gringoes (US) don't want me to go ... They denied visas to my personal security officials, my personal doctors ... They do not want my party in New York but I am going, even alone," Chavez said on his arrival in Havana for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit.

The controversial Venezuelan leader also suggested the NAM summit was more relevant to the world than the UN.

"This is the summit of the world, the United Nations of the South. I think it is the most important summit I have ever attended," Chavez said.

Chavez, a close friend and ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro, said the gathering in Havana will give rise to "strategies aimed at the recovery of the southern world, at achieving equilibrium in the world."
(snip/...)

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Chavez_says_US_seeking_to_stop_him__09142006.html

[Tellurian]

6. Hugo, why risk assassination. Use a satellite up link and converse

in real time with UN members..

You'll be saving the horse's life as well!

[mom cat]

7. Could he hire some American bodyguards?

[Igel]

9. Doctors?

'"Some members of the Venezuelan delegation do not have Venezuelan nationality and our law has special requirements that take time. These visa (requests) could not be processed because they were not made early enough," Brian Penn, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Caracas said by telephone.'

One wonders if maybe some of the problematic folk weren't Cubans.

And he needs doctors? Plural?

[No Exit]

14. Until Cheney's hunting license is revoked, everyone needs doctors plural!

[MasonJar]

10. That is not right. If the international organization just happens to

be in our country, that does not give us the right to deny other heads of state their usual protection and medical team. Think what Bush did to poor Queen Elizabeth and her beautiful palace and gardens. I notice he has not been invited back. As Barack Obama said tonight, "had enough."

[Vidar]

11. Just a fantasy, but I have a lovely image of Chavez liberating

the US with a magnificent cavalry charge. Unlike bubble boy behind 2000 odd bodyguards, Chavez certainly doesn't lack for courage.

[spacelady]

12. Boy, these "little" countries and their leaders can sure make

Bushco pee their collective pants, can't they?

[spacelady]

13. I would LOVE to see them all ride in like Bonanza.

Chimpy bein' skeert of horsies & all.

[HuffleClaw]

15. typical childishness from BushCo.

its like dealing with a gaggle of spoiled kids in a sandbox