Venezuela rejects US apologies

[annabanana]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5375144.stm

Venezuela has made a formal complaint to the US authorities and the United Nations after its foreign minister was detained at a New York airport.

The US state department has apologised to Nicolas Maduro who was detained for 90 minutes at New York's JFK airport as he travelled home.

Mr Maduro said the US apology was not enough.

"We were detained during an hour and a half, threatened by police with being beaten," he told reporters at Venezuela's mission to the UN. "We hold the US government responsible."

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Wait I'm confused, I thought they were the thugs. nt.

[Laughing Mirror]

7. Yeah really. Nancy & Charley must be scratching their heads ...

:dilemma:

[indepat]

2. This is same government at work that found it necessary to search Al Gore

twice in one week at airport: coincidences or targeted, you be the judge.

[ShortnFiery]

3. They have a point.

Dear leader behaves like a petulant child when everything does NOT go EXACTLY his way. We are being ruled by a clutch of psychopaths. :scared:

[Missy M]

4. Sometimes I think children are better behaved than the bunch...

of thugs running this country. Bush is like the bully child who can dish it out but can't take it.

[William769]

5. They shouldn't''t accept it

It's like a child that knows he is doing something wrong & all he has to do is to apologize (insincere) to make things right.

[stepnw1f]

6. Our Government is Being Run by Thugs

Everyday, I see similiarities between our present day government and the government that was taken over by Nazis (Nationalists) in Germany.

[tuvor]

8. CBC: Venezuela rejects U.S. apologies after foreign minister detained

Venezuela has complained to the United Nations after its foreign minister accused officials at a U.S. airport of illegally detaining him and then trying to frisk, handcuff and strip-search him.

U.S. officials called Saturday's incident at John F. Kennedy International Airport regrettable and said they had apologized to Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro called that insufficient and said Venezuela would seek a legal challenge through the UN to what he called a "flagrant violation of international law" and his diplomatic immunity.

He said Venezuela has lodged a protest with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and demanded that the incident be investigated so that those responsible are punished.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/09/24/venezuela.html

[leesa]

9. Good. Let's formally decide who the thugs are.

[kurth]

10. Detain and strip search Condi next time she's in Venezuela

Other countries should do the same as well.

[Peace Patriot]

11. I love how the Venezuelans fight back and take no shit. They are

inspiring!

Chavez mentioned this in his speech. They also prevented his personal physician from leaving his plane. This is outrageous! But Chavez's response: lay it out before the whole world. Call them on it. Nail them with it. The Venezuelans have nothing to hide. They are a good government, and GENUINE representatives of their people, and of the interests of Latin America (which, if you hadn't noticed, has undergone an amazing, peaceful, democratic, leftist (majorityist) revolution over the last several years, throughout the continent). They can speak truth to power. They are not afraid.

Viva la revolución!