CARACAS, Friday July 28, 2006 | Update
Venezuelan Executive Vice-President José Vicente Rangel
replied to US ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield,
who said his government is asking for "transparency" in Venezuela
purchase of military equipment from Russia.
In a press release published on Friday, Rangel reminded the
US diplomat that Venezuela "has the right to restock the National
Armed Force and has no problem to account for this to the
international community."
Rangel stressed that the United States "could actually have
some problems (of accountability), given its systematic violation
of the international order."
The official said the US foreign policy is "wrong and chaotic,"
and is characterized by the contradictions of its spokespeople.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."