US Ambassador Shapiro admits feeding false information about Venezuela

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Monday, April 21, 2003 By: David Coleman

Smug-faced US Ambassador Charles Shapiro has admitted responsibility on accusations by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Roy Chaderton Matos that he's feeding false information about Venezuela to the US State Department in Washington.

Unashamedly Shapiro has told reporters "I am to blame since it corresponds to me to inform the US government and I am keeping them constantly informed."

MRE Chaderton Matos had earlier complained that US Secretary of State Colin Powell has been badly informed on prevailing realities in Venezuela...

Shapiro says he has just hosted a Monday meeting to exchange opinions between US Congressmen and their counterparts in the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) ... "it was a courtesy visit!"

AN 1st vice president Ricardo Gutierrez, deputising on this occasion in the absence of AN president (speaker) Francisco Ameliach, told the US visitors that a new board of directors of the National Electoral College (CNE) is to be constituted shortly.

However, Shapiro didn't let up one second on his anti-Venezuelan stance ... asked by opposition Globovision reporters if  the US Congress delegation was worried about the situation in Venezuela, Shapiro quipped "we're permanently worried by the situation in Venezuela!"

Press hacks at the bunker on Colinas de Valle Arriba have been scrambling today to "damage control" Shapiro's incredibly stupid statement ... but the cat's already out of the bag!

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