Rangel on Fundamentalist Terrorism
"I don't even know who that person [Robertson] is," said Chavez, standing next to Cuban leader Fidel Castro at Havana's airport.
In Venezuela, however, Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said the U.S. response to [Pat] Robertson [who called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this past Monday] would be a test of its anti-terrorist policy and that Venezuela was studying its legal options.
"It's a huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those," Rangel said.
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Rangel called Robertson "a man who seems to have quite a bit of influence in that country," adding that the comments "reveal that religious fundamentalism is one of the great problems facing humanity in these times."
[Christopher Toothaker, AP, "Chavez lashes back at Robertson: The Venezuelan leader fought back against the '700 Club' host", The Oklahoma Daily, 23 August 2005.]