Two in one shot!
Two in one shot! They must be celebrating 9/11's war on TERROIL!!
Chávez Orders Ambassador Back to U.S.
September 12, 2008
Speaking on television Thursday, Mr. Chávez said he was kicking out U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy, a career diplomat, in solidarity with Bolivia. Wednesday, Bolivian President Evo Morales, a Chávez ally, accused U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg of aiding a separatist movement in Bolivia.
The back-to-back expulsions bring U.S. relations with Venezuela and Bolivia to a new low. They also are likely to increase concerns about the reliability of Venezuela as one of the U.S.'s top sources of crude oil. Analysts, however, say Venezuela is unlikely to cut off shipments to the U.S. because Mr. Chávez's government needs the money as much as the U.S. needs the oil.
Thursday's events were marked by growing accusations of U.S. intervention in the region. Hours before Mr. Chávez said he would expel the U.S. diplomat, his government said it had detained a group of alleged conspirators in a plot to overthrow him. The Venezuelan leader seemed to suggest the U.S. was behind the alleged plot, the type of accusation he regularly makes.
"They're trying to do here what they were doing in Bolivia," Mr. Chávez said, according to the Associated Press. "That's enough...from you, Yankees."
A White House spokesman declined to comment, saying that the U.S. had received no official notification of the expulsion.
In Bolivia, meanwhile, at least eight people were killed and 20 injured in street fights across the nation, the Associated Press reported, citing authorities. Bolivia's Television 57 network reported that at least nine had been killed during clashes between groups opposed to Mr. Morales and his supporters. Wednesday, the government blamed opposition groups for damaging gas pipelines.
Echoing Mr. Chávez's claims of coup plots, Mr. Morales's senior advisers accused opposition leaders in the nation's economically crucial eastern provinces of fomenting a coup, heightening fears the Andean nation will descend into open political violence.
Underscoring the internationalization of the Bolivian conflict, Mr. Chávez warned in a speech Thursday that any coup against Mr. Morales would give him a "green light" to back an armed insurgency in Bolivia.
Mr. Chávez's move comes amid tensions between Washington and Caracas over U.S. allegations that Venezuela isn't doing enough to stem a growing tide of drug trafficking from the South American nation.
Last week, U.S. antidrug czar John Walters said Venezuela was becoming an important transit point for cocaine from neighboring Colombia on its way to Europe and Africa. He said the amount of cocaine flowing through Venezuela had exploded in recent years.
Earlier this year, information found in the computers of a deceased Colombian guerrilla leader suggested high-ranking Venezuelan officials had developed close links to the Colombian rebels, which are heavily involved in the cocaine trade and classified as terrorists by the U.S.
Among those implicated in the files were two Venezuelan officials, former justice minister Ramon Rodriguez Chacin and Hugo Carvajal, the head of Venezuela's military intelligence. Mr. Rodriguez stepped down last week.
Mr. Chávez has been increasingly strident against what he calls U.S. imperialism in the region ever since he was briefly ousted in a 2002 coup that he claims was supported by Washington. Since then, he has cobbled together a small band of anti-U.S. countries that include Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua.
Bolivia is mired in a political stand-off. Mr. Morales is seeking to introduce a new constitution that he wants to aid his mainly poor indigenous supporters.
Leaders in four eastern provinces oppose the plan. They say Mr. Morales is an authoritarian who will bring economic ruin to the nation.
Write to John Lyons at john.lyons@wsj.com
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Evo orders expulsion of U.S. ambassador to Washington
LA PAZ, September 10.—Bolivian President Evo Morales stated on Wednesday that he had ordered the expulsion of Phillip Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador, whom he accused of backing conservative opinion and seeking division in the country, Reuters report.
“The person conspiring against democracy and, above all, seeking to divide Bolivia is the U.S. ambassador,” affirmed Morales in a meeting at the Government Palace, in which he strongly condemned the wave of violence, including attacks on gas pipelines, unleashed by the opposition in various regions.
“I am asking our foreign minister of the Republic… to send a note to the ambassador today, informing him of the decision of the national government, of its president, that he must immediately return to his country; we do not want a separatist who conspires against unity, who attacks democracy,” the leader added.
On the other hand, Juan Ramón Quintana, minister of the presidency, warned in a press conference that the nation is “on the threshold of an atypical coup against the institutional order, which is currently underway on the part of the opposition prefectures and civic committees and in which tanks are no longer needed.”
Quintana announced that the government has provided “greater cover, a larger presence of military units” to preserve refineries and oil pumping units in the southeast of the country, cut off by roadblocks.
Zio-Yankees go home!
Persians, Arabs and Spanish/Native Indians Unite!
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"Money" has no value - people do.
their Alvaro Uribe cocaine to be trafficked by anyone but them...
Venezuela, hands off Columbia's cocaine trade damnit!!