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Ambassador Castro supports democratic Maduro and blames a “ferocious media attack”
The Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro, openly revealed her support for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro as protests in the nation continued, while criticizing what she saw as a “ferocious media attack” carried out by opponents of the head of state. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“In no other country do they have as many elections than in Venezuela”
Feb 25th, 2014 - 04:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cough Cough... think i just choked on a crumpet when i read that.
Venezuela has presidential elections every 6 years unless called early, like in 2013 with the death of chavez.
Britain has General Elections once every 5 years, with l have elections for either local, regional, European (MEP's), police commissioners or for others at least once a year. So yeah Venezuela really has more elections than any other country...NOT!!
As always rubbish spouts every time she opens her mouth.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 07:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Also, she is the Ambassador to the Court of St James - what diplomacy she is showing by interfering in the internal matters of Venezuela!
Democracy? Does that include bribing voters with 100 Peso notes and free petrol?
Feb 25th, 2014 - 07:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Get out on the streets like the Ukranians, throw out your dictators, rise up and seek freedom. South American despots are shivering with fear.
“That is how president Cristina Fernández put it: there is nothing more important than democracy, which means respecting the popular will.”
Feb 25th, 2014 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, well, well. Wellity wellity wellity. Goodness gracious me.
And how about a democratic vote in which 98%+ expressed the same popular will?
Still an ugly air hostess.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 08:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0“CASTRO ” Any relation to the Cuban despots? DIPLOMACY something Latam countries have no idea about.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now that Kiev/Ukraine have overthrown their Czar ( see photos of house) maybe the people of Venezuela will get the necessary front pages to cover their stories.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maduro and his cronies are taking the country further into the sewer, and a change at the top is needed ,desperately
Argentina has the worst Foreign Ministry staff.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think there is any other country in the world that puts out more delusional statements than these boobs.
It must be exasperating for other countries to deal with these fools.
Apparently Ms Castro is very useful at UK Foreign Office bashes. She is a dab hand at pushing the drinks trolley around. Its just when she opens her mouth the problems start.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not only Cristina supports the grotesque dictatorship of Venezuela out of the fear its consequences may hit here too, (which already have, becuase the free lance protestors are already organizing for another mass cacerolazo in Easter) but also its seems she owes the Bolivarian Republic Billions.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For Chavez giving aid and handouts for free to Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia to Argentina its not free and with a 14% interest rate
http://www.jorgeasisdigital.com/2014/02/24/kiev-caracas-buenos-aires/
10. When a new gov't takes over and audits the books they are going to find a lot of terrible terrible problems.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Expect lots of investor lawsuits
Lots of unaccounted debt
Papered-over reserves.
A complete mess
and a bankrupted State.
Its a known fact
Feb 25th, 2014 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Obviously they wouldn’t have implement the dollar clamp in October 2011 if the reserves had really being 54 billion USD and the liabilities were meaningless.
Most of those “reserves” have been loaned out and back and out again until nobody really has any idea what is there.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The cash certainly isn't
Maybe it's high time that every nation submits a “believable” annual audit, so that an international body could be given oversight to halt the disintegration, before, not after a collapse; with all it's resounding effects. The world can no longer countenance the bad behaviour of “rogue states.” I give you Romania, Zimbabwe and Ukraine as recent examples, but when I was very small I remember King Farouk being booted out for his excessive ways
Feb 25th, 2014 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah yes, Argentina that bastion of democracy who gave the poor 500 pesos each to sign on for Cretina and her corrupt cronies at the last election.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wasnt Castro the one who got bollocked for calling Malvinas the Falklands? so much for free speech in RG Land.
It may have been Louis 14th who said it first: however, methinks ”it will all end poorly,I fear!
Feb 25th, 2014 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The season of strikes and road cuts have begun. This is one of the top reasons I am so glad I live in a civilized country.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a horrible mess that place is...
This ambasador is an idiot !
Feb 25th, 2014 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think the civilized thing is Chapter 11, followed by the appointment of a receiver-manger, whose fees would be far less than the bribes and outright theft that goes on in these 2 “model states” Check out the photos of some of the ousted dictator of the Ukraine's little homes and playthings. Also ,maybe a garage full of toys of his son, one worth $500K
Feb 25th, 2014 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6 Castro is a somewhat common surname in Spanish speaking countries.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 like a true politician CFK is destroying everything she can so the next government pays the costs.
Following the “you say, I say” crap from the Troll from Patagonia :
Feb 25th, 2014 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alicia Castro says :
“Venezuela is under a ferocious international media attack. Who wins with violence? Clearly it is not the government, it is the opposition.“
I, and everyone with a brain, say : ”what's wrong with that ??“”
No-one in the UK takes this woman seriously.
Feb 25th, 2014 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This dolly is off her trolley
Feb 25th, 2014 - 10:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_wKhXurFyI#t=25
Feb 26th, 2014 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marco Rubio has a great speach about Venezuela and Cuba.
Good for you Marco!
“Castro” is a very common family name in Galicia, the northwest region of Spain. Because of the poverty of the reason many more “gallegos” emigrated to Spanish America than from any other reason of Spain.
Feb 27th, 2014 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed, in Argentina people of Spanish origin are referred to as “los gallegos” - whether they are vascos or catalanes or from other parts of the Iberian Peninsular.
@24 yankeeboy
Feb 27th, 2014 - 08:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0thanks for the video link
Stirring stuff!
I shall follow the Senator with more interest from now on
I really liked Marco until he started with his immigration/amnesty plan. It is a non-starter and he should never have signed onto it. I think he learned his lesson though.
Feb 28th, 2014 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think he has his eye on the Prez job. So he'll probably go back and be a Gov of FL first. I think the USA has had enough of someone who has not at least run a state or very large business.
I think the populace has woken up to the community organizer in chief/man-child running our country and won't let it happen again.
Well said Ambassador - and someone who should know what she's talking about as a former Ambassador in Caracas. I hope she feels as welcome here as she did there but at an official level I doubt it for obvious reasons! We should be honoured as Brits to have been sent such a senior envoy, with experience in one of the really important countries and of leading a left political party =) Hope she goes further still in politics, maybe she could replace Timmerman as FM if he becomes Pres =)
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0#5 Actually she looks good, certainly for her age, and I like what she's wearing here. Maybe your comparing her to Cristina but that would be unfair competition for almost any woman =)
#24,27 Marco Rubio - now he really WOULD be an extremist latino President!
@28, BK, Castro is just spouting the usual CFK crap for the Trolls to lap up....Since she was the Rg ambassador to Caracas when Chavez was in power, she knows deep down, in her flabby gut, that the current chaos originates from years of arbitrary repression and violence by the government, and the protests are merely a reaction against that. Why shouldn't the people be allowed to protest ? If it were a free country, Maduro would just have to put up with the protests and criticism, but the megalomaniac can't take it...so, kill the protesters, get rid of the opposition. Your statement that “We should be honoured as Brits to have been sent such a senior envoy”.....speak for yourself, numbuts !!
Mar 03rd, 2014 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Castro states the obvious : “” These are not peaceful protests“”“....not any more, they aren't ....started off peacefully, and only turned violent after the police beat and killed protesters.
I know you will stick to your twisted, leftist view of whose to blame for the chaos in VZ. I'm also sure that you ”Think” Cuba is a social paradise.
And, as far as your finding Alicia Castro attractive, can only say it's lamentable....either your eyesight is rotten, or you are an old fart , who gets aroused by ANYTHING with a pair of tits.
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