Top Venezuela Diplomat Says U.S. Reaction Leaves Doubt After Call for Chavez to Be Killed - from TBO.com

Top Venezuela Diplomat Says U.S. Reaction Leaves Doubt After Call for Chavez to Be Killed - from TBO.com: "Aug 26, 2005

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's foreign minister criticized the U.S. government for stopping short of condemning remarks by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said at a meeting in Bariloche, Argentina, on Thursday that the U.S. reaction had been 'a bit strange,' according to a Foreign Ministry statement issued in Venezuela.

'There has been no forceful condemnation by the United States as everyone expected,' Rodriguez said, according to the statement.

He also said Robertson's comments were clearly a crime of incitement but that no legal proceedings have been opened in the United States."