Senior US Official in Venezuela for Meetings With Maduro

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Senior US Official in Venezuela for Meetings With Maduro

CARACAS, Venezuela — Apr 8, 2015, 3:22 PM ET
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Associated Press

A senior U.S. diplomat was in Venezuela on Wednesday for talks with President Nicolas Maduro ahead of a regional summit in which tensions between Caracas and Washington threatened to overshadow a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations.

News of the visit by State Department counselor Thomas Shannon came after Maduro announced promotions for two of the seven officials the United States sanctioned in March for alleged human rights violations and corruption.

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Shannon flew to Venezuela on Tuesday after its leaders invited the Obama administration to send a senior official to Caracas in advance of the three-day Summit of the Americas, which begins Friday in Panama.

An opposition coalition spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks said Shannon would meet with the group later Wednesday.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/senior-us-official-venezuela-meetings-maduro-30163568

[99th_Monkey]

1. I sure hope someone is keeping a close eye on this one

and I'm guessing it won't be CNN, CBS or NBC.

Please note that Shannon is meeting with "both sides" ... as though the CIA & US corporate
marauders masquerading as "the opposition" has any legitimacy with the People of Venezuela.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. How's the ruling government's performance been? Looks pretty shitty n/t

[99th_Monkey]

4. Hint: Venezuela is a democracy

The People of Venezuela (to the chagrin of Capitalists everywhere) have greatly benefited from the Chavez/Maduro administrations, which is why they keep re-electing them.

Is that so difficult to understand?

The US should quit our meddling in their internal affairs.

[hack89]

5. Sky rocketing crime and wide spread shortages of basic necessities

I doubt the people consider those to be benifits

[99th_Monkey]

7. Well then, if the People of Venezuela are truly dis-satisfied with Maduro Admin.

I'm sure they'll be voted out of office.

It's their country, it's their business, not the USA's business to
usurp and sabotage the People of Venezuela's democratically elected
government.

[hack89]

8. Democratic leaders don't rule by decree

think about it.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Thinking will help anyone see through everything, with time:

Executive orders: how a US president can rule by decree

Republicans say Obama's immigration rules are illegal and should be overturned, but executive orders have a long history





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Barack Obama has ordered some of the most sweeping changes to the US immigration system in decades with a raft of measures that will allow millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US to stay in the country, but Republicans have accused the president of acting illegally.

The changes were ushered in without the consent of Congress through what is known as an "executive order". In a prime time address to the US public, Obama said that alongside the new provisions, he would bolster border security making it harder for illegal immigrants to reach the country.

What is an executive order?

Orders directly from the president have been used by US leaders since George Washington in 1789 to help officers of the executive branch to manage the operations of the federal government. The instructions only became known as executive orders in 1862 under Abraham Lincoln, according to the American Presidency Project.

Today an executive order is defined as "a directive issued to federal agencies, department heads or other federal employees by the President of the United States under his statutory or constitutional powers", explains Robert Longley, on the website About.com. "In many ways, presidential executive orders are similar to written orders, or instructions issued by the president of a corporation to its department heads or directors."

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/61445/executive-orders-how-a-us-president-can-rule-by-decree#ixzz3Wm1ov0cS

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Rules by decree are not at all uncommon in the Americas, in the present. The subject has been discussed at length in this forum, and others, repeatedly.

[hack89]

10. Except there are limits on EOs

they cannot violate existing laws nor can they infringe on the powers of the judiciary or Congress. There are no such limits on Maduro.

[Judi Lynn]

6. It IS time the U.S. stopped meddling in Latin American countries' internal affairs.

As Evo Morales, and Luis Inacio Lula de Silva already said, they would be happy to work with the US as partners, but not as subjects.

[Bacchus4.0]

3. My guess is he's trying to get a one on one with Obama nt