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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:12 PM Apr 2013

Venezuela's Maduro sends conciliatory message to U.S.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro named a new acting head of its U.S. diplomatic mission in Washington on Tuesday and sent an offer of dialogue after attacking the United States for "interference" in a row over his election.

Disputes between Venezuela and the United States were common during Hugo Chavez's 14-year socialist rule of Venezuela, leaving both nations without ambassadors in each other's capitals.

Maduro, who won an election this month to replace Chavez after his death from cancer, has wavered between reaching out to the U.S. government and condemning its policies in the same uncompromising terms as his predecessor.

In an address on live on TV, Maduro called for "respect" and "dialogue" while naming Calixto Ortega, an ally and member of Venezuela's delegation to the Latin American parliament, to the post of charge d'affaires in Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuelas-maduro-sends-conciliatory-message-u-235954058.html

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Venezuela's Maduro sends conciliatory message to U.S. (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2013 OP
seeing is believing Nicolas, no more stupid allegations of assassinations and sabotage Bacchus4.0 Apr 2013 #1

Bacchus4.0

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1. seeing is believing Nicolas, no more stupid allegations of assassinations and sabotage
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:51 PM
Apr 2013

take responsibility for the problems yourself and try to actually fix the country's problems.

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