Venezuela Warns of US
Aggression
Venezuelan deputy, Saul
Ortega, said the country
should be on the alert
regarding declarations
of US officials against
because they could be
used as a pretext for a
future aggression.
Ortega, president of the
Foreign Affairs
Commission of the
National Assembly,
pointed out that
Washington is mounting a
new media offensive to
overthrow the government
of president Hugo
Chavez, referring to
declarations of US
official, John Walters.
Walters, director of the
Office of National
Policy of Drug Control
of the White House
declared in Bogota that
the Chavez
administration is an
"important pawn" in
cocaine traffic to other
countries in the
hemisphere and Europe.
"Everyone knows that
drug trafficking has two
great problems, Colombia
the top producer and the
United States the main
consumer," the deputy
emphasized during a
special session
celebrating half a
century of an end of
dictatorships in
Venezuela.
Ortega questioned the
intentions of those
accusations and recalled
that Washington used a
similar strategy to set
the ground for military
interventions in Panama
and Iraq.
He also accused the
Bogota government of
participating in the
slander campaign
"because everyone knows
that it is where the
drugs are produced and
trafficked in
conjunction with the
United States. |
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