US considering naming a new envoy to Venezuela following Caracas' rejection of first choice

US considering seeking new envoy to Venezuela
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama Administration says it may nominate a new ambassador to Venezuela after its previous choice was rejected by the government of President Hugo Chavez. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the U.S. believes it is important to have an ambassador in Caracas in order to manage relations, which have been strained by Chavez’s condemnations of the U.S. and by U.S. criticisms that Democracy is deteriorating in Venezuela. Crowley said Monday the administratio...

Caption This: Hillary shakes hands with Chavez
Saw this photo at Andrew Malcolm’s Top of the Ticket page: Photo courtesy: AFP/Adriano Machado Look familiar? It should . The AP’s write-up : Caracas, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shook hands and chatted briefly Saturday in a rare cordial encounter amid a diplomatic dispute that has left Venezuela and the United States without ambassadors in each other’s capitals. The handshake came as leaders were milling about at the inaug...

Is there an Iranian missile base in Cuba?
Hugo Chavez, the yanqui-hating dictator of Venezuela, will not accept Washington’s proposed emissary and has dared the United States to break diplomatic relations. It seems Ambassador-select Larry Palmer’s sin is that he did not applaud Chavez when he used his rubber-stamp parliament to perpetuate his dictatorial regime. The State Department’s limp-wristed response was to cancel the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador. That, and silence from the White House, told the megalomaniac...

US Revokes Visa of Venezuelan Ambassador
BBC reports: Washington has revoked the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador to the US, the US State Department has said. The move comes amid a diplomatic dispute between the two countries over President Barack Obama’s choice of ambassador to Caracas, Larry Palmer. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had been angered by comments Mr Palmer made about the country this year, and withdrew his approval of Mr Palmer. The US move in effect expels Venezuelan Envoy Bernardo Alvarez Herrera. It is not ...

Venezuelan ex-leader's burial in limbo due to feud
CARACAS, Venezuela - A bitter dispute between relatives of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez has derailed a plan to send his body from Miami to Venezuela, leaving the former leader's burial in limbo. Perez's family in Caracas said in a statement Monday that the plan to fly the body to the capital was canceled because Perez's longtime companion and daughters in the United States said through their lawyers that they had never agreed to transferring his remains to Venezuela. Tha...

Venezuela prices up after new devaluation
CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Consumer prices soared in Venezuela as the government of President Hugo Chavez devalued the bolivar and the currency fell further against the U.S. dollar on traditional unofficial markets. It was the second Venezuelan devaluation in 12 months and follows the second Central Bank annual report in the same period confirming the Latin American country's economy continues to shrink despite its oil wealth, international trade and recovery from severe drought last ye...

Is There an Iranian Missile Base in Cuba?
Chet Nagle, The Daily Caller Hugo Chavez, the yanqui-hating dictator of Venezuela, will not accept Washington’s proposed emissary and has dared the United States to break diplomatic relations. It seems Ambassador-select Larry Palmer’s sin is that he did not applaud Chavez when he used his rubber-stamp parliament to perpetuate his dictatorial regime. The State Department’s limp-wristed response was to cancel the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador. That, and silence from the White House, to

Hugo Chavez Takes Over the Federal Reserve
Time was when countries believed in strong currencies — strength measured not in the Rhetoric of bearded wise men but of bank vaults flush with gold coin. Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez recently announced that he would be devaluing his currency on New Year’s day.  As the Wall Street Journal reported: News of the devaluation came just after the Central Bank said the Venezuelan economy contracted 1.9% in 2010, the second consecutive year of declining output in the oil-rich nation after a...

Clinton Chats With Chavez at Brazil Inauguration
Despite a simmering diplomatic row, President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were seen having a brief, friendly chat at the inauguration of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff. The encounter Saturday came only three days after the United States revoked the visa of Venezuela's ambassador in Washington, in reprisal for Chavez's rejection of the US president's appointed ambassador to Caracas. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessi...

US and Venezuela cut diplomatic ties
Us and Venezuela cut ties. This originally stems from the refusal to seat the US Diplomat due to some obviously tender words which Chavez didn't like. We can't have Chavez dictating what a US ambassador can and can't say. The US followed suit and expelled their ambassador as is common procedure. I don't see the US changing their opinion on this matter so look for this to drag on for years. Life will go on for the US in Venezuela. Even though we don't have an official ambassador figurehead, a lo...

House GOP takes aim at health plan
Eager to show who's in charge, the House's new Republican majority plans to vote to Repeal President Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul before he even shows up in their chamber to give his State of the Union address later this month. Though full Repeal is a long shot — the House vote would be just the first, easiest step — Republicans vow to follow up with dozens of attempts to hack away at what they derisively call "ObamaCare." The strategy is not risk-free for the Republicans, w...

Obama Administration Hits Back against Health Care Repeal
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Washington (AP) - Republican Repeal of President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul law would take away personal freedoms and put power back in the hands of Insurance Companies, the administration's top health official said Tuesday. House Republicans have scheduled a vote next week to Repeal the law, calling it a job-killing mandate that raises costs all around and promotes government intrusion in decisions that should ...

Venezuelan ex-leader's burial in limbo due to feud
Caracas, Venezuela — Relatives of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez have been unable to agree on sending his body from Miami to Venezuela, leaving the former leader’s burial in limbo. Carolina Perez is one of the late leader’s daughters. She told the Venezuelan television channel Globovision on Monday night that a plan to fly the body to Caracas was suspended after Perez’s longtime companion and daughters in the United States said that they had never agreed...

American University Political Campaign Training Class
This is really depressing: click for video See also: Discussion on Lobbying & the Regulatory Process Discussion on Political Fundraising Discussion on Lobbying Rules & Regulation Excerpt: American University’s Campaign Management Institute hosts a training program for people interest in working for or running political campaigns. The two week program includes a series of seminars with pollsters, media consultants and other political operatives. Part 1: Lobbying & the Regulatory ...

Venezuelan ex-leader's burial in limbo due to feud
Relatives of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez have been unable to agree on sending his body from Miami to Venezuela, leaving the former leader's burial in limbo. Carolina Perez is one of the late leader's daughters. She told the Venezuelan television channel Globovision on Monday night that a plan to fly the body to Caracas was suspended after Perez's longtime companion and daughters in the United States said that they had never agreed to it. A planned burial was halted in Miami l...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
MyWay: Without ambassadors, US-Venezuela tensions grow Jan 1, 2:32 PM (ET) By IAN JAMES Caracas, Venezuela (AP) - The United States and Venezuela are starting the year without ambassadors in Caracas and Washington due to an intensifying diplomatic dispute that is likely to persist and boost President Hugo Chavez's long-standing antagonism. Both sides have shown firmly entrenched stances and no willingness to Compromise in the past week as the U.S. government revoked the Venezuelan ambassador's...

Hugo Chavez's bipolar currency logic
Economy Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced late on January 8 the implementation of a new Exchange Rate that includes two official prices for The Dollar. The first Exchange Rate will be VEB 2.60 per dollar (previously at VEB 2.15), and the so-called "oil dollar" at VEB 4.30. The ruler also reported that the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), jointly with the Executive Office would step in the foreign exchange market to prevent speculative foreign exchange operations. The two official...

Chavez and the Drug Smugglers
Posted by Matt Gurney on Jan 4th, 2011 and filed under Email, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Despite the season, there hasn’t been a lot of occasion for good cheer in Venezuela recently. President Hugo Chavez has side-stepped recent Congressional gains by the opposition by asking for, and receiving, emergency powers to rule by decree for 12 months. He claims he needs ...

Caracas Cardinal Warns of Dictatorship in Venezuela
The Roman Catholic Cardinal of Caracas warned that the recently passed presidential request to give Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree -- the fourth such move by Chavez in his 11 years in office -- signals a slide toward Dictatorship in the Latin American country. More from El Universal: "The new package of laws recently approved by the Venezuelan National Assembly is unprecedented, according to Jorge Cardinal Urosa Savino. 'It is something that should be meditated and I say it to governmen...

Hillary Clinton and Hugo Chavez: the face of Obama's engagement
A fundamental tenet of President Obama's change to believe in is diplomatic engagement with countries that are less than friendly toward los estados unidos. The friendly outreach hasn't produced much but embarrassing rebuffs from Iran, which continues down its dangerous path toward nuclear armament. Without receiving anything in return, Obama used a Recess Appointment last week to return an American ambassador to Syria, which assassinated Lebanon's president, arms Militant groups t...

Bolivia's Morales apologizes for flag burning
Bolivian President Evo Morales has apologized for the burning of a Venezuelan flag during Protests against an abrupt rise in fuel prices. Morales said he "publicly apologized in the name of the Bolivian people" for the incident last week. He said the Venezuelan Embassy called the presidential palace to complain after the flag was torched by Protesters. Morales has close ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and the incident highlighted complaints by opponents that the Bolivian leader is foll...

Right Wing Fodder: Hillary Clinton And Hugo Chavez Shake Hands And Smile
The inauguration of Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rousseff was the sort of international diplomatic event that drew foreign dignitaries and world leaders alike, creating what some may see as inopportune photo opportunities like the image above. Yes, that’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sharing a felicitous handshake with Venezuelan President (and right-wing bogey man) Hugo Chavez . “We greeted each other,” Chavez told reporters at Brasilia’s airport acc...

Is Chavez Going Down the Tubes: Last Chance for Venezuela's Revolution?
BuzzFlash and Truthout offer an ongoing special focus on South and Central America and provide a variety of progressive viewpoints on the economic, sociological and political changes in the area.  This is one of them. The pulse of the revolution grows faint. Extreme measures are needed, since the extremely poor living conditions of most Venezuelans demand it. They are tired of the government taking half actions. Tired of the same super-rich oligarchy dominating The Economy, which creates th...

Bolivia's Morales apologizes for flag burning
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian President Evo Morales has apologized for the burning of a Venezuelan flag during Protests against an abrupt rise in fuel prices. Morales said he "publicly apologized in the name of the Bolivian people" for the incident last week. He said the Venezuelan Embassy called the presidential palace to complain after the flag was torched by Protesters. Morales has close ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and the incident highlighted complaints by opponents that the...

Hillary Clinton Chats it Up with Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez Video Report
Here is a video report on news that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was seen having a “friendly conversation” with Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez, as the two attended the the inauguration for Brazil’s President - Dilma Rousseff. Via Fox Nation ...