Venezuela VP Responds to Rumsfeld:US Wants to Destroy Latin American Unity

Venezuela VP Responds to Rumsfeld: U.S. Wants to Destroy Latin American Unity

Thursday, Mar 24, 2005

By: Cleto A. Sojo - Venezuelanalysis.com

Caracas, Venezuela. Mar 24, 2004 (Venezuelanalysis.com).- Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel, released a statement yesterday, responding to comments made by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about Venezuela, during his recent visit to Brazil.

“The Lord of War, Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States made statements following the same line of repeating the usual impertinences about Venezuela,” said Rangel who also denounced the existance of a campaign seeking "to create enemies for Venezuela, among our friends."

On Wednesday, Secretary Rumsfeld expressed preoccupation about Venezuela’s announced purchase of 100,000 Russian rifles, saying that it could contribute to further destabilize Latin America."I can't imagine why Venezuela needs 100,000 AK-47's.," Rumsfeld said during a news conference in Brasília. "I just hope that, personally hope, that it doesn't happen… I can't imagine that if it did happen, that it would be good for the hemisphere," he added.

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Vice President Rangel responded by saying that the military equipment Venezuela is currently acquiring is of a defensive nature, and criticized the high U.S. military budget. “In Venezuela we are worried about the elevated military spending by the United States, which stands around 450 billion dollars … what are they fearing in order to justify such high military spending?,” he asked.The Vice President said that the preemptive war doctrine currently being implemented by the U.S. government, and its alleged desire to control the world’s resources, are behind the high U.S. military budget. “The whole world is worried,” he added.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1558

How dare Venezuela purchase Russkie arms! The impertinence!

How about that perfect comment. You see they are not worried about "political strategy" just calling it out as it is. Right on Venezuela.

Everybody else on the planet is sucking chimp unit in the hopes he won't attack them or notice them, for that matter. Venzuela is calling like it is. I'm thinking this "calling a spade a spade" will catch on IF we don't attack them in retaliation for their "impertenance".

Gyre

Read my above post. The same wavelength zapped us.
:toast:

Venezuala has recently been making new friends (oil contracts) with some powerful countries (China included). This is what has probably got the admistration's undies in a bunch. That and they probably used oil revenues (US dollars) to purchase the AK-47s. The Lord of War, (so cool!), needs a Darth Vader costume to go with the title.

From the article:

...Definitely, the U.S. is worried because Latin America is liberating itself. This preoccupation is that of the slave owner who does not accept the liberating struggles of the oppressed peoples. The U.S. preoccupation with Venezuela is because our country is building a true democracy of equals, something that the U.S. does not carry through neither with their own people, nor with the international scene.

The U.S. preoccupation arises because we are building another world, a world in which other worlds can fit. They are worried that the South also exists.

From the south we respond, with dignity as our flag, and understanding the big responsibility we have as the descendants of San Martin, Artigas, O'Higgins, Abreu e Lima, and Bolivar.

"The role of the inhabitants of the American hemisphere has for centuries been purely passive. Politically they were non-existent. We are still in a position lower than slavery, and therefore it is more difficult for us to rise to the enjoyment of freedom. We were removed from the world in relation to the science of government and administration of the state. We were never viceroys or governors, save in the rarest of instances; seldom archbishops; diplomats never; as military men, only subordinates; as nobles without royal privileges. - Simón Bolívar, 1815

The Chavez government produces some of the best rhetoric on the planet.

After all we've done for them! Uh .... to them.

Get Negroponte on the case. Oh, right ... he's working his "magic" in Free Iraq.

Russia and Venezuela see eye to eye
24 March, 2005 by ashok

Russia and Venezuela share close or identical views on key international problems, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Russia and Venezuela share close or identical views on key international problems, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Moscow statement was circulated during a meeting held by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak during his visit to Caracas, Interfax reports.

Kislyak held ministerial consultations and a series of meetings on Monday and Tuesday with leading officials from the Venezuelan defense and mining ministries.

"The talks revealed a coincidence or closeness of positions on key international problems and the role of the United Nations as a central mechanism of maintaining peace and stability," the Foreign Ministry statement.
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