U.S., Venezuela trade barbs over media freedom, rights

Source: Reuters
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Venezuela and the United States traded barbs in public over freedom of speech and human rights on Monday in a public spat sparked by Venezuela's closure of an opposition television station.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's decision to take opposition broadcaster RCTV off the air "undemocratic" and called for the Organization of American States (OAS) to investigate the incident.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro shot back by comparing the U.S. imprisonment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to Nazi Germany and by accusing Washington of meddling in his country's affairs.
The testy exchanges played out at a meeting of the OAS that was supposed to be about energy but instead was marked by Rice and Maduro making dueling speeches and then each demanding the right to respond to the other.

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