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A12 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 20 May 2017

Venezuelan leader to Trump: ‘Get your pig hands out of here”

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) controlled assembly of its
— Venezuelan President remaining powers ignited a
Nicolas Maduro delivered deadly wave of unrest.
his most scathing critique While Venezuelan lead-
of U.S. President Donald ers have lashed out at U.S.
Trump yet Friday, telling presidents frequently in the
him to stop intervening and past, Maduro had largely
“get your pig hands out of been careful not to antag-
here.” onize Trump. But Trump’s
Speaking before a crowd repeated criticisms of the
of supporters, a fired-up troubled South American
Maduro accused Trump of nation appear to have
promoting an intervention- struck a nerve.
ist policy that infringes on Speaking alongside Co-
his socialist government’s lombian President Juan
sovereignty. Manuel Santos Thursday,
“Go home, Donald Trump!” Trump expressed dismay at
he said in heavily accent- Venezuela’s crisis, asking
ed English. how a country holding the
The remarks come a day nation’s largest oil reserves
after the Trump adminis- could be stricken by so
tration slapped sanctions much poverty and turmoil. In this May 3, 2017 file photo, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro waves to supporters outside
against eight members Trump described Venezue- the National Electoral Council headquarters, in Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuelan Foreign
of Venezuela’s Supreme la’s current state as a “dis- Ministry announced Friday, May 19, 2017, that Russian President Vladimir Putin had promised to
Court, accusing them of grace to humanity.” start delivering several thousand tons of wheat after speaking on the phone with Maduro.
Associated Press
damaging the nation’s Nearly two months of street
democracy. A ruling by protests throughout Ven- strators are demanding triple-digit inflation, rising ing the special assembly
the court in late March ezuela have left at least new elections and blam- crimes and vast food short- would likely only serve to
stripping the opposition- 46 people dead. Demon- ing Maduro for the nation’s ages. further accelerate the na-
El Salvador judge reopens case Maduro is pushing to re- tion’s upheaval.
“It’s not necessary, perti-
solve the crisis by conven-
ing a special assembly to
nent, or convenient to car-
of archbishop’s 1980 murder rewrite the nation’s consti- ry out a transformation of
the state in the terms that
tution. That proposal has
been rejected by the op- a new constitution could
SAN SALVADOR, El Salva- position, and on Friday, a imply,” she wrote.
dor (AP) — A Salvadoran letter by the nation’s chief Maduro said Friday the
judge on Thursday ordered prosecutor, Luisa Ortega constitution rewrite would
a reopening of the case of Diaz, a long-time govern- proceed.Trump’s sanc-
the 1980 murder of Roman ment loyalist, made it clear tions and comments
Catholic Archbishop Oscar that she will not support it against Venezuelan offi-
Romero. either.Ortega Diaz broke cials played to the govern-
The decision stems from a with the government ment’s longstanding accu-
separate court ruling that shortly after the Supreme sations of U.S. imperialism in
overturned an amnesty Court’s controversial ruling Latin American affairs. Mai-
law blocking investigation in March, calling it a “rup- kel Moreno, the president
and punishment of crimes ture” of the constitutional of Venezuela’s Supreme
from the Central American order. Days later Congress Court, and among those
nation’s 1980-1992 civil partially reversed its de- sanctioned by the U.S.
war. cision amid international government, said Friday
The ruling also overturns a In this March 24, 2011 file photo, protesters carry portraits of outcry. that Trump’s executive or-
release order for a former slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero on the 31st anniversary In her letter, Ortega Diaz der was an attempt to im-
military captain who is the of his death in San Salvador, El Salvador. hailed the country’s 1999 pose its authority over Ven-
only one to have been Associated Press constitution as one of the ezuela’s institutions and
prosecuted for the killing. most advanced in the compromise the judicial
The judge asked prosecu- sniper while celebrating and Catholic officials world and a best legacy branch’s independence.
tors to report on other sus- Mass at a hospital chapel have said they are study- of the late President Hugo “Get your hands out of
pects who may have been in the Salvadoran capital ing a possible miracle that Chavez. She said that far here,” Maduro said to the
involved. on March 24, 1980. could lead to Romero’s from resolving the nation’s U.S. president. “Get your
Romero was slain by a He was beatified in 2015, canonization.q current crisis, convok- pig hands out of here!”q