"she was bringing 20 satellite phones and a technician"
Oh, that SYMBOLIC GESTURE is really going to help!!
Pfffffft!!
Related: US Puts South America On Notice With Catastrophic Chile Quake Test
Yeah, I guess they did get the message.
"Chile remains on Clinton’s itinerary" by Associated Press | March 1, 2010
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s weeklong five-nation tour of Latin America is certain to focus on the earthquake in Chile while she also tries to build support for fresh penalties against Iran.
Maybe NOW is not such a GOOD TIME, you blood-drinking bitch!
The itinerary released before the quake Saturday included a visit to Santiago, Chile’s capital, beginning tonight. While authorities were assessing quake’s damage, State Department officials said Clinton planned to go to Chile, although her schedule of events once there may change.
But Clinton, set to depart yesterday evening, made clear that she would show US support for disaster rescue and recovery operations.
Clinton starts her trip in Uruguay at today’s inauguration of the country’s new president, former guerrilla Jose Mujica. Mujica’s election in November won praise from other left-leaning populist leaders in the region, including Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, a perennial thorn in the side of the United States who is cultivating closer ties with Iran.
I'm sick of the WAR S*** in EVERY DAMN PIECE, how about you, readers?
Clinton’s announced schedule puts her in Chile late today for talks with President Michelle Bachelet and President-elect Sebastian Pinera, who takes office March 11. She is also scheduled to meet with other regional leaders during stops in Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Uruguay....
I really don't care where she goes and what she does anymore.
The Obama administration has been pleased by Uruguay’s contributions to UN peacekeeping forces and Argentina’s stance on Iran’s nuclear program, and Clinton will encourage Mujica and Fernandez to continue those policies, US officials said.
Fernandez may raise Argentina’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, but Clinton is not expected to bring it up. “This is a matter for Argentina and for Britain, and it’s not a matter for the United States to make a judgment on,’’ the top US diplomat for the Americas, Arturo Valenzuela, said Friday.
But on Iran..... !!!!!!!!
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Btw, that Brit-Argentinian dispute ALL ABOUT GAS and OIL RESERVES!!!
"Troops strain to control looting, clashes in Chile; Chaos reported amid rubble in Concepcion; President seeks help from UN" by Jonathan Franklin, Washington Post | March 2, 2010
SANTIAGO, Chile - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will discuss aid efforts with Bachelet when she arrives in Santiago today.
Clinton, who began a weeklong South American tour on Sunday, told reporters traveling with her that she was bringing 20 satellite phones and a technician on her plane in response to the Chileans’ request for communications equipment. She said she was continuing with a previously planned stop in Chile - only at the airport - in order “to assess whatever else they might need and immediately to begin the process of providing it.’’
How is flying in and clogging up vital air space and government resources going to help?
It REALLY WAS about delivering a message: CLINTON CALLING!
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World, for the record, I am DISGUSTED by this woman being the FACE of DIPLOMACY from my country to yours.
She is a tactless bore, I regret when the president sends her to you, and I apologize in advance for any country she may yet set foot forth.
"Uruguay inaugurates a former guerrilla leader as its president; He vows to unify; Clinton attends" by Raul O. Garces, Associated Press | March 2, 2010
Wow! Pretty timely apology, huh?
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - A former guerrilla leader who won the trust of voters with his homespun manner and promises to govern as a conciliator became Uruguay’s new president yesterday.
Jose Mujica, 74, is the second consecutive leftist president in a country which, until 2005, had been ruled by right-wing parties or the military for 150 years.
You know, OUR GUYS, AmeriKa!
Related: Uruguay Says Up Yours, AmeriKa!
He took the oath administered by his wife - also a former guerrilla leader - while wearing a blue suit and no tie, an accessory he says he will shun as president, in keeping with the flower farm owner’s gruff, antipolitician image.
Uh-oh! Another Ahmadinejad!
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is on a five-nation tour of South America, was among the dignitaries attending the inauguration.
One wonders what she was doing there other than SENDING a MESSAGE and SOWING DIVISION by visiting with our agents in-country?
She is scheduled to visit Chile today, bringing an offer of earthquake aid....
Right, it was on here way to Chile.
Uruguay was one of the few Latin American countries whose economy grew last year.
A LEFTIST-CONTROLLED ECONOMY GREW last year, Amurka?
WTF?!!
Why didn't you then (and I don't mean those government lies that said we did)?
Mujica, who was elected in November, has also promised to promote Latin American unity, and his victory was widely welcomed in a region of prickly relations between some leftist and conservative governments.
And THAT is why Clinton stopped there!
AmeriKa will HAVE NONE of THAT in the world, dammit!!
“I wish to not only congratulate the president-elect and the new government, but to applaud the way in which the government is unifying and bringing together even opposition parties,’’ Clinton said at a news conference before the inauguration. “Indeed, Uruguayans are rightly proud of their leaders and their democracy.’’
Mujica urged reconciliation between conservative President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Venezuela’s leftist leader, Hugo Chávez.
Oh, I'm sure that went over well with Clinton as she is working on a war case against Iran!
A bitter spat between the two at a summit in Mexico last week marred efforts to create a new Latin American political bloc.
Really, AmeriKan MSM?
And WHY am I ONLY READING ABOUT IT NOW in the AFTERTHOUGHT paragraph in this PoS?
HOW MANY OTHER THINGS are you NOT TELLING US as you serve up such s***-slop day after day?!!!
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