Chavez: U.S. detained foreign minister

Independent UKIP · 24-09-2006, 02:11 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/...a/venezuela_us

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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said his foreign minister was detained by U.S. authorities at a New York airport Saturday for more than hour as he tried to return to the South American country.

Chavez told Venezuela's state TV broadcaster that U.S. officials alleged that Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro had links to a failed coup that Chavez led in Venezuela in 1992.

"They have held him accusing him of participating in terrorist acts here," Chavez said in Venezuela. "He didn't even participate in that patriotic rebellion."

Both Venezuelan politicians were in New York this week attending the yearly U.N. General Assembly, where Chavez attracted attention with a speech calling President Bush "the devil." He later criticized the U.S. leader during a stop in Harlem before returning home.

There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials and it wasn't known if Maduro has since left for Venezuela.

Maduro told CNN Espanol shortly after being released that he was confined to a small room and told to remove his clothes.

Maduro said that when he explained that he was the Venezuelan foreign minister and showed his diplomatic passport, he said he was threatened, pushed and yelled at by immigration and police officials.

"They were violating diplomatic conventions," he said.

Maduro told Venezuela private TV station Globovision separately that U.S. authorities said a code on his airplane ticket identified him as "almost a terrorist."

"This is an outrageous incident, repudiable from all points of view and unacceptable," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said, adding Venezuela would protest to the U.S. government.

In 1992, Chavez, then a lieutenant colonel in the army, led a failed uprising aimed at ousting then-President Carlos Andres Perez.

Seeking to strip search anyone with Diplomatic immunity is a disgrace (unless they are known to be carrying a bomb) but this apparent treatment of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister is contemptible beyond belief. But I bet every single person involved is extremely proud of what they have done and have no qualms whatsoever of their treatment of an extremely senior representative of a soverign nation. A lot of sackings and criminal prosecutions are in order if the story is accurate as reported. If US immigration officials are allowed to treat Maduro in such a way with impunity what hope is there for anyone going to USA. Next step US immigration will seek control over UK citizens visiting Iran, Pakistan etc. Some pretext will be found, such as flights fly close to US bases therefore...?

mkpdavies · 24-09-2006, 09:36 AM

It's a brave new world.

ukpatriot · 24-09-2006, 04:55 PM

It's time the USA stopped behaving like thugs and learned to respect other nations and Governments.

Mikeuk · 24-09-2006, 05:44 PM

A snarling jackbooted hoodlum bestrides the world, bloodstained whip in hand.

Uncle Sam believes in equality - but only as long as you're rich, white and American.

blondy · 24-09-2006, 06:38 PM

Come to America, insult our President? What do you expect when you act like an ass?

ukpatriot · 24-09-2006, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by blondy

Come to America, insult our President? What do you expect when you act like an ass?

He didn't insult your 'President', his President spoke a few home truths about Bush.

All the US did, once again, was to prove they have no respect for international diplomatic protocol.

The sooner monkey boy is gone the better!

blondy · 25-09-2006, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ukpatriot

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Originally Posted by blondy

Come to America, insult our President? What do you expect when you act like an ass?

He didn't insult your 'President', his President spoke a few home truths about Bush.

All the US did, once again, was to prove they have no respect for international diplomatic protocol.

The sooner monkey boy is gone the better!

General Declaration:

If there's ever an unfortunate and coincidental accident involving U.S. forces and any individuals or groups who have proven by word or deed that they are not our friends (God forbid!) please accept our apologies in advance.

Mikeuk · 27-09-2006, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by blondy

Come to America, insult our President? What do you expect when you act like an ass?

Pity they can't detain Bush in some South American republic and give him the full strip search treatment.

I can just see Monkey Boy quaking as they don those rubber gloves. :twisted:

ukpatriot · 27-09-2006, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by blondy

If there's ever an unfortunate and coincidental accident involving U.S. forces and any individuals or groups who have proven by word or deed that they are not our friends (God forbid!) please accept our apologies in advance.

Well the USA have a track record of trying to bump off people in other countries they don't like, as Castro can confirm, and they have bumped off countless innocent Iraqis already.

Never mind; when I see some cigar-chomping muppet hanging about with dark glasses and cropped hair trying to look incognito, I'll watch my back...

after I've stopped laughing.

Mind you, there are so many of us who think US policies are crazy and the administration is full of idiots, that the US will have to employ tens of millions of hitmen just to try to bump us all off.

Wonder what they've done about your reporting my postings here? LOL!!

You ought to read '1984' sometime...

Mikeuk · 28-09-2006, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ukpatriot

Wonder what they've done about your reporting my postings here? LOL!!

Oh dear. :twisted:

Looks like you're already in the CIA Black Book. :shock:

I wonder if he's reported me as well. :roll:

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