Maduro appoints new US charge d’affairs for relationship based on respect

[Catherina]

2. I think he's wasting his time for the moment

But sooner or later... one day... the message has to sink in.

"We want to have the best ties with all the world's governments, and the U.S. government, but on the basis of respect. There can be no threats," said Maduro.

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"As we don't have ambassadors, we have for a while been considering naming a new charge d'affaires to our embassy in Washington," Maduro said.

"I have decided to name Calixto Ortega so that dialogue with U.S. society may increase, with the universities, the academic world, the social and union world, the Afro-American community, the Latino community, Congress, senators, representatives, the economic, trade and energy sectors."

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We hope one day to have respectful relations with the United States, a dialogue between equals, state-to-state," Maduro said. "Sooner rather than later, the elites running the United States will have to realize there is a new, independent, sovereign and dignified Latin America."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/23/us-venezela-usa-idUSBRE93M1J820130423