Rice, Venezuelan foreign minister spar over TV station closure
Panama, NU Online U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Venezuela’s foreign minister traded verbal broadsides over the closure of an opposition television station in Venezuela. Rice on Monday protested the shuttering of Radio Caracas Television, RCTV, calling it Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s “sharpest and most acute” move yet against democracy as thousands of university students marched in Caracas to protest.