Venezuela launches new US visa requirement
Venezuela began requiring visas for US travelers to the country Tuesday, implementing a measure announced by President Nicolas Maduro in retaliation for American "meddling."
In a notice published in the government's official gazette three days after Maduro denounced the United States in a fiery speech, the interior and foreign ministries said the US was now "excluded from the list of countries benefitting from the non-immigrant visa waiver."
Maduro has said American visitors should pay the same fee Venezuelans pay to travel to the United States -- between $160 and $190, depending on the type of application.
The bulletin also put the official seal on Maduro's announcement that he was banning a list of US "terrorists" from visiting Venezuela, including former president George W. Bush and his vice president Dick Cheney, as well as Hispanic American lawmakers Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-launches-us-visa-requirement-183015921.html
Now that's really gonna encourage US tourists to visit and spend their Yankee dollars there...