Planes to Venezuela: Come again?
From today’s International Herald Tribune:
The United States has refused to give Spain permission to sell military aircraft containing U.S. technology to Venezuela. Articulating U.S. opposition to the deal, embassy officials in Madrid said that the sale amounted to support for an oppressive regime that threatened to spread instability across parts of Latin America.
“Despite being democratically elected, the government of President Hugo Chávez has systematically undermined democratic institutions, pressured and harassed independent media and the political opposition and grown progressively more autocratic,” the embassy said in a statement.
Wow, if you hadn’t told me, changed C-h-a-v-e-z to B-u-s-h, I would have thought we were describing the current state of American democracy.
