Venezuela puts U.S. on the defensive

[Judi Lynn]

Friday, Jun. 17, 2005

Venezuela puts U.S. on the defensive

CARACAS – The Venezuelan government is continuing its campaign to challenge U.S policies, beating back a Bush administration initiative presented to the Organization of American States´ General Assembly and threatening to bring the United States before an international court if it doesn’t extradite Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who was convicted of blowing up a Cuban plane in 1976, killing 73 people on a flight from Caracas to Havana.

In a televised address, Pres. Hugo Chávez said the United States had no excuse to refuse the extradition request, Radio Netherlands reported last week. Posada, a nationalized Venezuelan, was arrested in Miami last month on charges of entering the country illegally. He escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985.

After a U.S. proposal at OAS to monitor democratic developments in Latin American countries failed, Venezuela’s VEA daily said, "No country or group of countries can supervise or decide on the internal political affairs of a sovereign state. That is the people´s exclusive responsibility."

In a dispatch from Fort Lauderdale, where the OAS meeting was held, the Bolivarian News Agency noted that the U.S. delegation was upset and disappointed. The decision suggests a change in the OAS, which has often acquiesced to U.S. proposals and requests.
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http://www.vermontguardian.com/dailies/0904/0617.shtml

[getmeouttahere]

1. NEVER acquiese to BushCO....

otherwise you will be over-run with multi-national corporations who will plunder your resources and exploit your people, and that's the best case scenario!

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Chavez might just hold the trump card in this game....

Who controls the oil spigots in Venezuela?

[getmeouttahere]

3. I'd like to think he does...

I'm just enjoying his standing up to BushCo...the OAS too

www.handsoffvenezuela.org