Venezuela has made a formal complaint to the US authorities and the United Nations after its foreign minister was detained at a New York airport.
The US state department has apologised to Nicolas Maduro who was detained for 90 minutes at New York's JFK airport as he travelled home.
He had been attending this week's UN General Assembly meeting.
He said he was verbally abused and strip-searched in what he said was a "flagrant breach of international law". more at BBC-World
Fox's Full Day Of "Fair & Balanced" Questions About Chavez & The U.N.
When he called President Bush the devil earlier this week, Hugo Chavez was practically begging for press coverage -- and it worked.
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See the first part of his UN speech with his book recomadation.
"I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. ... I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house."
Hugo Chavez is right, Bush is a Vampire (see clip below)
The US reaction to Chavez remarks: