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U.S. flight crew held by foreign authorities for 'insulting' Chavez

The Venezuelan government once detained an American Airlines pilot and crew on suspicion that one of the crew members "insulted" Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez by calling him crazy, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable posted today by WikiLeaks and reviewed by WND. The cable revealed that on Sept. 30, 2008, the U.S. embassy in Caracas received word the American Airlines crew had been detained, apparently after a friend of a Venezuelan politician believed he heard a crew member insult Chavez. As of 2006, it became a crime in Venezuela to insult the country's president. The cable related that a passenger who had been on American Airlines flight 903 to Caracas claimed he overheard a crew member announce the current local time as "loco Chavez time." "Loco "in Spanish means "crazy."

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