US Embassy folks shot in Venezuela
Agency France Press is reporting that two Military attaches from the US embassy were shot near a strip club in Caracas, The injuries are reportedly not life threatening;
The Venezuelan media identified the two men as Roberto Ezequiel Rosas and Paul Marwin, and said they were military attaches at the embassy, but neither the State Department nor the embassy in Caracas would confirm those reports.
“My understanding is that they are other agency personnel, not from the State Department,” Ventrell said.
Venezuelan television channel Globovision reported on its website that the incident took place at the Antonella bar located in a shopping center in the Chacao district of Caracas, after an altercation with other bar patrons.
According to the article, there have been 3400 murders in Venezuela so far this year, so I guess guns are the first solution to disagreements there.
Category: Foreign Policy
Okay, the Strip Club explains why the spoke dweeb from State was having so much trouble explaining what type of “social club” venue this took place at during a news conference yesterday. he just could not spit it out. Why the hell do they need to try and hide things like that? it only looks worse when they try covering it up.
It was probably a cultural misunderstanding. At least, that’s what the White House is going to say.
How’s that gun ban working out?
http://www.examiner.com/article/venezuela-s-chavez-bans-gun-ownership-and-firearms-sales
They were IN the strip club and a fight broke out. The club had a gun-free policy but that sure didn’t stop someone from bringing in guns.
Could have sworn that due to previous Secret Service prostitution scandal and when some ho was tossed out of a moving embassy vehicle that DoD personnel attached to embassies weren’t allowed in those establishment any longer.
Considering how Hugo Chavez’s heir has been whipping up anti-American fervor in order to justify the purging of the anti-Chavistas (see also 3400 murders in the article above), ONLY a couple of Americans getting shot is a miracle.