An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization.

Sometimes countries also appoint highly respected individuals as Ambassador at Large who are assigned specific responsibilities, and they work to advise and assist their governments in a given area. The word is also often used more liberally for persons who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities and fields of endeavor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador

I been reading on MSNBC (Well actually I been hearing Comcast is buying them out) that the Obama Administration has appointed a person as Ambassador that apparently ruffles their feathers. Venezuela apparently canceled the visa for "Larry Palmer" who was nominated by Obama as Ambassador for Venezuela.

In what some claim to be "Revenge" the USA has canceled Venezuala's Ambassador to the USA's visa out of spite.

Now I don't claim to know all the details, and anything written on MSNBC can only be 1/2 truth anyway, but given the relationship between Obama and the controversial leader of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai who claimed in a video on September 24 2006 that if the money spent on the Iraq war was spent on rebuilding Afghanistan, his country would "be in heaven in less than one year". Well guess what? We been pumping money into Afghanistan for WAY MORE than one year, and the last few years we have been pumping money into Afghanistan by the BOAT LOADS! Yet recently released press articles have stated that there is "NO WAY" to seal their boarders. Day after day there are more US troop casualties with no clear military mission and no apparent gain for the USA, outside of Obama having somewhere to visit during his globe trotting vacations. 

Now it would appear to me that an Ambassador sent to another nation should at the very least have the respect of their people, after all what would be the point in sending someone there who is just going to piss them off? I could understand if we were at war with Venezuela, but given the fact that the President of Venezuela much like many Americans (Myself included) had high expectations of Obama, due largely in part to his aggressive campaigning speeches, many feel cheated.

Perhaps someone here could explain to me what the hell is going on, and if we can expect to have another Fidel Castro situation only this time with Venezuela.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40846053/ns/world_news-venezuela