tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post8130402800592174860..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: No more ambassadors for the US and VenezuelaDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-68096630806271919702010-12-31T18:29:51.891+01:002010-12-31T18:29:51.891+01:00Blogger Greg Weeks, who doesn´t strike me as a Cha...Blogger Greg Weeks, who doesn´t strike me as a Chavez apologist, thinks the Administration is making a mistake. I don´t agree with his take, but it´s worth reading.<br /><br />http://weeksnotice.blogspot.com/ConsDemohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15312125878554292999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-85230541925685963402010-12-31T12:53:23.841+01:002010-12-31T12:53:23.841+01:00Boludo,
Could you for-Good-ness-sake stop praisin...Boludo,<br /><br />Could you for-Good-ness-sake stop praising Obama? It is so much not you!<br /><br />;-p Just kidding.<br /><br />I reckon the gringos have been doing fine so far when it comes to Venezuela, but for some useful idiots, as we had here in Europe.<br />There is little the US can do but promote the use of electric cars or fuels based on rubbish so that oil prices go down.<br /><br />Venezuela's mess has to be solved by Venezuelans. What the US can best do, in my opinion, is to provide intelligence about corruption, drugs, etc, in Venezuela. To my dispair, though, that kind of intelligence is not very well developed (contrary to locating guerrilla camps).<br />Europeans could provide some interesting know-how about political education, but that won't be the case now with the new laws.<br /><br />It's up to us, guys.<br /><br />Still, Chigüire Bipolar did one of the best analysis, as usual:<br />http://www.elchiguirebipolar.net/30-12-2010/venezuela-toma-medidas-drasticas-contra-eeuu-decide-venderle-mas-petroleo/Keplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11125538872924743270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-17674629652052193802010-12-30T17:48:58.692+01:002010-12-30T17:48:58.692+01:00I am pleasantly surprised that the Obama administr...I am pleasantly surprised that the Obama administration had the cojones to do this. At the same time, the Obama administration nominated someone for ambassador who told the truth about Venezuela in congressional hearings. Also a good thing.Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-37356025342911870612010-12-30T16:09:52.540+01:002010-12-30T16:09:52.540+01:00I think it is appropriate that Obama's governm...I think it is appropriate that Obama's government withdrew the visa from the Venezuelan ambassador.<br /><br />Up til now they have taken all of the Chavez's insults laying down, trying to ignore them, or else making some mild comments.<br /><br />In some ways by being politically more towards the left Obama is better positioned than the previous government to confront Chavez without the media getting getting his case.As the left dominates the media,it might reconsider its coddling of Chavez if Obama takes more of a stand against him.firepigettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17348890269608169297noreply@blogger.com