National shame

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Nothing since the treacherous behaviour of our government at the time of the Falklands War has made me so ashamed of being Italian as the appalling hero's welcome delivered to Hugo Chavez in the most beautiful city in the world. He should have been arrested and thrown in the local jail.

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[fishlivejournal.livejournal.com]

Diplomatic immunity needs to remain sacrosanct, so jail isn't an option. That said, welcoming any soldier who has betrayed his oath by conducting a coup is both immoral and insane.

(Okay, I can see an exception for a coup after electoral fraud, to force new elections; but even that is duangerous and should only be done to enforce an order by the law courts. And there's no way that Chavez can claim any such justification, given that the Venezuelan supreme court and congress proved willing and cpable of removing Perez when he was found to be corrupt).