VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: I simply couldn't believe my ears, yesterday, when I heard Danny Esquilin, the New York State co-chairman of the coalition for John McCain, pontificate on the subject of what I presume to be McCain's perspective on Latin America and Venezuela in particular 'live' on-air on the VHeadline Venezuela Newshour (broadcast daily by the American Voice Radio Network, 10 a.m. Pacific).

In fact I was so astounded that, despite anchor John Sanchez' admirable restraint with his guest, I couldn't stop myself from calling in to the show during the second 30 minutes to rebut the plethora of outrageous allegations that Esquilin was making.

Republican McCain's NYC spokesperson actually claimed from the heart of the USA dictatorship that the democratically elected President of Venezuelais a 'dictator'! Of course he didn't want to broach the sensitivities surrounding the US State Department and National Endowment for Democracy (NED) bank-rolling of rebel forces in the Chavez opposition who sought to overthrow the legitimate government of Venezuela in April 2002 and he barely skirmished on the imposition of the USA-puppet 'Dictator for a Day' Pedro Carmona Estanga who proceeded to dissolve the Venezuelan National Congress, the Constitution and the Judiciary in one fell swoop while boasting that he would maintain executive control (=dictatorship) for at least 10, perhaps 15 years.

Danny Esquilin retorted that he receives hundreds of emails from concerned Venezuelan each day deploring the "unacceptable state of affairs in Venezuela" which he then goes on to claim, in shades of neo-McCarthyism, is a "Communist