This whole episode is a stark reminder that the United States can no longer even mobilize the regional body established to address this sort of outrageous maneuver by Chavez.

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We are in the early stages of this inquiry and no further comment will be made until the body is identified.

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But causation to the side, New Orleans and now New York have taken body blows from powerful storms, and this is clearly no laughing matter.

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