U.S. Outburst at OAS Meeting Over Chavez & Bolivia

Thursday, 9 June 2005, 4:50 pm
Opinion: narconews.com

US Outburst at OAS Meeting: Chavez & the Bolivian Crisis

June 8, 2005
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Towards the end of the two-day session by the Organization of American States (OAS) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the U.S. ambassador to the organism, Roger Noriega, threw a temper tantrum.

After all, Washington had just received a stunning rebuke from the other countries around the table against its proposal to create mechanisms for foreign meddling in the affairs of other countries (read: Venezuela), and Bolivian President Carlos Mesa had just offered his resignation in the face of a massive popular movement to nationalize the Bolivian gas industry.

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Noriega, not used to losing gracefully, simply blew his top, spitting loudly that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is to blame for Bolivia's crisis.

Noriega has a point, but not in the way he thinks he has it...

Read all about it at:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/8/91629/48549

From somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
Correspondent
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com

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