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Chávez calls Fox "a puppet of the empire"
By El Universal
11/10/05 "El
Universal" -- -- President Hugo Chávez, in his first
public appearance following the fourth Summit of the Americas,
Wednesday labeled his Mexican counterpart Vicente Fox as "a puppet
of the empire," which lead the Mexican Foreign Affairs Office to
react immediately by asking Venezuelan Ambassador Vladimir Villegas
to "render an explanation."
"I feel sorry for President Fox' selling out, this is sad," Chávez
said late on Wednesday in a mandatory nationwide radio and TV
address.
"It is so sad to see the President of such a dignified people as the
Mexican people lending himself to be a puppet of the empire," the
Venezuelan ruler claimed before an audience including
businesspersons, middle-class people and public officials.
Chávez accused Fox of kneeling down before the United States.
"They wanted to run over us, they wanted to run over us, but as they
could not, the Mexican President made a series of remarks against
(Argentinean President Néstor) Kirchner and myself," Chávez
asserted.
"In connection with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez' remarks
regarding Mexico's participation in the fourth Summit of the
Americas, the Foreign Affairs Secretariat informs that Venezuelan
Ambassador Vladimir Villegas has been convened to render an
explanation," said the Mexican Foreign Affairs Office in a
communiqué.
Ambassador Villegas told AFP that the Mexican Foreign Affairs Office
convened him to meet Thursday with foreign affairs "officials," but
he is not scheduled to meet with Foreign Affairs Secretary Luis
Ernesto Derbez.
"Let's see what they have to say," said Villegas.
When asked if this impasse between Venezuela and Mexico could lead
to the two countries recalling their diplomats, Villegas replied: "I
do not know, we will see. I do not think so, though."
Chávez' remarks came in response to Fox' statements this week that
Kirchner was to be blamed for the division seen at the end of the
Summit of the Americas.
Fox also lashed out at Chávez for the "ideological stance, detached
from reality" the Venezuelan ruler deployed during debates in the
Summit of the Americas and during his participation in an event
rejecting the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Copyright @ Diario El Universal C.A. 2005
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