Elías Jaua in Argentina: Venezuela "is a country of peace"

Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, who accompanied Jaua during a news conference, confirmed "(Argentina's) total and absolute support for the path chosen by the Venezuelan people in the last election, with the message of respecting life, supporting peace and defending institutions"

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua on Thursday visited Argentina, where he met with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and argued that "Venezuela is a country of peace" and that the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro cannot be mapped to "the violent groups trying to overthrow him."

"Protests in Venezuela are not the result of political and social unrest, but a planned strategy, encouraged and promoted since at least five years ago, which has now entered the picture to overthrow the democratic government," Jaua said during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Efe reported.


For his part, Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, who accompanied Jaua during the press conference, confirmed "(Argentina's) total and absolute support for the path chosen by the Venezuelan people in the last election, with the message of respecting life, supporting peace and defending institutions."

Source: El Universal
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Jake Tapper: Argentina Ambassador Nominee Has Never Even Been to Argentina

CNN’s Jake Tapper doled out some subtle mockery of the U.S. ambassadorship nomination process on Friday by looking at the latest campaign fundraising bundler for President Barack Obama to face a congressional committee for confirmation.
As Tapper reported, Obama’s nominee to be ambassador to Argentina Noah Bryson Mament, “who just happens to have raised half a million dollars for President Obama and the Democrats” testified before Congress this week and “got tripped up on what you might think would not be too difficult a question: if he’d ever been to Argentina.” While he told the panel he has traveled “extensively around the world,” he has not made it to that country.
And while Obama has said that “some” of his ambassador appointees could be “political,” Tapper found that the “majority of President Obama’s second term ambassadorial nominations have been political.” He cited research showing that Obama has appointed 23 major fundraisers who brought in over $16.1 from him since 2007.

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