U.S. Detained Venezuelan Foreign Minister

September 24th, 2006 at 17:26 Björn Hallberg

Someone is having trouble abiding by international law.

Maduro told CNN Espanol shortly after being released that he was confined to a small room and told to remove his clothes.

Maduro said that when he explained that he was the Venezuelan foreign minister and showed his diplomatic passport, he said he was threatened, pushed and yelled at by immigration and police officials.

“They were violating diplomatic conventions,” he said.

A measly apology followed. Hopefully Americans will soon feel the same kind of hands-on disrespect across the world. They sure are setting themselves up for that sort of backlash.

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