Incoming US Ambassador to Brazil and former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon said that his government message to the administration of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez was an advice not to repress, but to listen to his people in these troubled times.
"It would be our message to the government of Venezuela: not to repress, but make room and listen to the Venezuelan people," Shannon said the same day of his inauguration as US Ambassador to Brazil, AFP reported.
"Venezuela is undergoing an ordeal. From our point of view, it is important at a time of political crisis to make political room for the whole Venezuelan people and all Venezuelan citizens," he added.
Shannon, who made his remarks in Portuguese during a press conference in Brazil, acted as Political Advisor at the US Embassy in Caracas in 1996-1999.
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