Venezuela furious at Colombia's meeting with opposition leader

[Zorro]

Venezuela reacted with fury to Wednesday's talks between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, saying it was a "bomb" in ties and recalling an envoy to Colombia's peace process.

Capriles met Santos in Bogota at the start of a tour around Latin America to press his case that last month's presidential poll in Venezuela was fraudulent and President Nicolas Maduro's government is therefore illegitimate.

Capriles, a 40-year-old business-friendly state governor, lost to Maduro, the successor to late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, by just 1.5 percentage points, according to official results.

The Maduro government has vilified Capriles as a "fascist" trying to stir a coup in Venezuela, and powerful Congress head Diosdado Cabello, who is also the No. 2 in the ruling Socialist Party, was the first to complain about the meeting in Bogota.

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-colombias-meeting-opposition-leader-hurt-ties-232553693.html

"Venezuela" seems to get furious over a great variety of things these days.

[COLGATE4]

1. File this under "Hissy Fit of the week".

Between the CIA orchestrating the supposedly non-existent shortage of toilet paper or the US planning on the assasination of Maduro (and the poisoning of Chavez) and now Capriles meeting with the Colombian President the Chavistas seem to have no shortage of issues to throw a tantrum about. Keeps the populace looking at the new shiny object...

[railsback]

2. It would be fun to see the oligarch lovers here

react to Mitt Romney pulling the same stunts after losing the election.

[COLGATE4]

3. I think there response here to that

scenario would be lots of hilarious laughter.

[joshcryer]

4. I'd cheer it if it was Al Gore.

Going to Canada, Mexico, EU, to talk about the illegitimate administration in the US.

[joshcryer]

5. All these hard allegations, they should charge him.

And arrest him.

But they got nothing because they're fucking liars. Full stop. Lying thieves.