An Open Letter to the Media on the 'Irony' of Snowden's Request for Asylum in Venezuela and Ecuador

[Catherina]

1. K&R. This is a very important letter. Timely too since Samantha Powers is demonizing Venezuela

Fight the Power: Venezuela's Maduro Responds to Obama's Nominee for UN Envoy

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim

Mérida, 19th July 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has described comments made by US President Barack Obama's nominee for envoy to the United Nations as “despicable”, and demanded an apology.

Yesterday Maduro criticised the nominee Samantha Power's testimony to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. During the speech, Power called for a “contesting” of what she described as a “crackdown on civil society being carried out in countries like Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.”

“Power says she’ll fight repression in Venezuela? What repression?” Maduro responded on Venezuelan television.

“There is repression in the United States, where they kill African-Americans with impunity, and where they hunt the youngster Edward Snowden just for telling the truth,” he stated. His comments come in the wake of a Florida jury acquitting George Zimmerman on 13 July for the killing of Trayvon Martin.

He also called for an “immediate correction by the US government”.

“And the U.S. government says they want to have good relations? What tremendous relations they want,” Maduro stated.

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