12/15/2014
CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said in a recorded television interview aired Sunday that he had wanted to break “all” relations with the United States and close Washington’s embassies and consulates, but he decided not to out of “Chavista wisdom.”
In a TV interview taped, evidently, on Saturday evening and aired while he was speaking on Sunday in Cuba at the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, or ALBA, presidential summit, Maduro confirmed that on Monday a march to repudiate U.S. policies against him will be held in Caracas.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in recent days have approved measures awaiting signature by President Barack Obama to deny visas and freeze assets of Venezuelan officials accused of violating the rights of Maduro opponents.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest announced last Friday that Obama approves of the initiative, although he offered no details about when the president might sign the bills.
“What is the U.S. Congress thinking, the congressmen and senators? That we Venezuelans – in the face of their resolution threatening Venezuela – are going to get down on our knees and that I’m going to go running to the U.S. Embassy here to apologize?” asked Maduro rhetorically.
“They don’t know our psychology, they don’t know the love we carry inside. It’s an insult that creates indignation for the U.S. Congress and now the White House to go out and applaud sanctions against Venezuela,” Maduro – the designated successor of Venezuela’s late iconic president, Hugo Chavez – said.
Maduro went on to say that it was “very dangerous” for the U.S. “ultraright” to impose sanctions on Venezuela that he compared to the embargo against Cuba, a policy with “50 years of failure” behind it.
He said that Obama had opted to maintain that policy and thus had transformed himself into the “hostage of U.S. imperial power, of the (U.S.) industrial, military, communications and financial apparatus.”
Maduro also said that one must insist on “the diplomacy of dignity ... in seeking to halt the monster in time,” warning that “the United States is going down a street with no exit ... (because) when you mess with Venezuela you’re messing with all of Latin America.”
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CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said in a recorded television interview aired Sunday that he had wanted to break “all” relations with the United States and close Washington’s embassies and consulates, but he decided not to out of “Chavista wisdom.”In a TV interview taped, evidently, on Saturday evening and aired while he was speaking on Sunday in Cuba at the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, or ALBA, presidential summit, Maduro confirmed that on Monday a march to repudiate U.S. policies against him will be held in Caracas.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in recent days have approved measures awaiting signature by President Barack Obama to deny visas and freeze assets of Venezuelan officials accused of violating the rights of Maduro opponents.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest announced last Friday that Obama approves of the initiative, although he offered no details about when the president might sign the bills.
“What is the U.S. Congress thinking, the congressmen and senators? That we Venezuelans – in the face of their resolution threatening Venezuela – are going to get down on our knees and that I’m going to go running to the U.S. Embassy here to apologize?” asked Maduro rhetorically.
“They don’t know our psychology, they don’t know the love we carry inside. It’s an insult that creates indignation for the U.S. Congress and now the White House to go out and applaud sanctions against Venezuela,” Maduro – the designated successor of Venezuela’s late iconic president, Hugo Chavez – said.
Maduro went on to say that it was “very dangerous” for the U.S. “ultraright” to impose sanctions on Venezuela that he compared to the embargo against Cuba, a policy with “50 years of failure” behind it.
He said that Obama had opted to maintain that policy and thus had transformed himself into the “hostage of U.S. imperial power, of the (U.S.) industrial, military, communications and financial apparatus.”
Maduro also said that one must insist on “the diplomacy of dignity ... in seeking to halt the monster in time,” warning that “the United States is going down a street with no exit ... (because) when you mess with Venezuela you’re messing with all of Latin America.”
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