Chavez pricks Fox, Fox in a snit wants apology, smirk smirks

[donsu]

http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=7067

Mexico to sever Venezuela diplomatic ties

Mexico said it will withdraw its ambassador and severe diplomatic ties with Venezuela if that country's president doesn't apologize Monday for warning Mexican leader Vicente Fox: "Don't mess with me."

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Tensions between Fox and Chavez spilled over after this month's Summit of the Americas in Argentina, where Fox sought to defend a U.S.-backed proposal for a free trade zone while Chavez proclaimed the idea dead.

"President Fox left bleeding from his wound," Chavez said Sunday during his weekly radio and TV show, echoing remarks last week in which he accused Fox of being a "puppy" of the U.S. government for supporting its plans for the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Chavez recalled a folk song from Venezuela's cattle-raising plains about a thorn, saying it seems appropriate for Fox since "you're a man of horses." After reciting the lyrics, Chavez said: "Don't mess with me, sir, because you'll come out pricked."
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LOL

Fox has a smirk on his back, poor thing.

[murray hill farm]

1. That is hillarious!!

This is the first i have heard of the remarks from Chavez..so funny! Latin pride rules heavy! So, such a remark will cause a snit...but it wont last.

[Vincardog]

2. There is a smirk on the fox's back

[kenny blankenship]

3. Unless he thinks Fox is facing imminent political death

for some reason, I can't see any reason why Chavez would deliberately and personally insult the President of Mexico. It's not a smart idea for him to make enemies among his Latin American neighbors.

[Village Idiot]

4. South American leaders don't see Mexico as Latin American.

They see it as American, period.

[Bacchus39]

5. oh really?? how so?

n/t

[murray hill farm]

6. fox is in the last year of his presidency...

he cannot run again....so....he only insulted the outgoing president...and the new one will be more likely much more intuned to the Chavez philosophy.