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Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Monitoring Political, Economic and Diplomatic Issues Affecting the Western Hemisphere

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The State Department’s Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy

by Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Caracas (Venezuela) | 25 May 2006

Following the announcement by the State Department that it was imposing an arms sale sanction against Venezuela, a Chávez advisor infuriated Washington when he responded with an apparently retaliatory announcement that Caracas would consider selling its American-made F-16’s to Iran.

State Department Looking for a Fight in which it Might get a Black Eye

by Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Caracas (Venezuela) | 23 May 2006

In yet another blow to the credibility of one of its annually released “certification” reports on the performance of other nations on some broad social or political issue – this time on the degree of cooperation in the anti-terrorism struggle – the State Department in its 2006 compilation (...)