 CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched a new verbal attack on Sunday against US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, bluntly warning her "don't mess with me, girl".
| I've seen the Condi 'double-claw' move. Hugo, surrender now. |
Responding to remarks before the US Congress last week in which Rice called Chavez a "challenge to democracy" in Latin America, Chavez warned the top US diplomat to back off. "She messed with me again," he said in his weekly "Hello President" television show, deliberately mangling her name as "Condolences." Last week, after her US Congress testimony, Chavez dismissed Rice as "the imperial lady". He vowed that Washington would fail in its bid to arouse international opinion against Caracas, and accused the George W Bush administration of fomenting transit strikes and other unrest to destabilize his country. |