Vice President warns that US may be targeting other nations

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela Electronic News Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 By: Robert Rudnicki

Venezuela's Executive Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel has cautioned that the United States may be looking at targeting other nations once the current war on Iraq is over. Rangel's comments come during a visit to Santiago, Chile as part of his whistle-stop Latin American tour to explain the current Venezuelan political situation in the country to its neigbors. 

"The United Nations has received a blow that now leaves our peoples' sovereignty defenseless. What they are today doing to Iraq can also be carried out against other nations. No one is safe from now onwards because the only safeguard, the UN, has collapsed. 

Rangel's comments come amid strong criticism from leading Venezuelan government representatives, including President Hugo Chavez Frias himself who has openly defied the US by slamming their invasion on Iraq.