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September
15th., 2008
“Attention members, this note contains vile language”,
warned Reuter upon broadcasting information that
Chávez was giving the US Ambassador 72 hours to get out
of Venezuela. !Go to hell, shitty Americans!”, he
exclaimed, inflamed, in a support event for Mario Silva,
his candidate for the Carabobo State´s Governor’s
Office. Precisely, it was Silva, the night before, in a
TV show by the Government’s channel, where such
language is frequently used to insult his opposers, who
broadcasted the recording of conversations which,
according to him, came from Military who conspired and
planned to assassinate Chávez. He called on the phone
to confirm the claim and threatened with a “demolishing
counter coup”. The magnitude and scope of the “counter
coup” was explained upon his return from Carabobo,
before a group of party men summoned to Miraflores. He
manifested his conviction that a coup d´etat or a
genocide would have more devastating effects than the
worst of hurricanes. “The pitiyanquis would know what
the force of the people defending the revolution would
be like, an armed revolution, and this time, Hugo Chávez
is not willing to be tolerant as he was on April 11”.
He made prolonged references to Bolivia and announced:
“If Evo is overthrown or killed, I would be getting the
green light to support any armed movement to restore the
power of the people”. The US responded with the
expulsion of the Venezuelan Ambassador. Washington
declared that they want good relations with the region,
but it assumes that Venezuela and Bolivia do not.
“Accordingly, the treatment given to both countries will
not be the same”. The following day, in a telephone
interview broadcasted by the Government’s channel,
Chávez, in a serene tone, said that his decision was
“just a diplomatic gesture of solidarity with Bolivia”,
and that it should not alter the commercial or energetic
relations. The expert, Ramón Espinasa, in a study
regarding the performance of the oil sector in the last
years, shows that the exportations to the US have
declined, by the middle of 2008, to 1,170,000 barrels a
day, and generate almost the totality of the cash
income, since the sales under government agreements are
mostly financed at long term or subject to barter
mechanisms.
The spokespeople for the opposition coincided in
condemning the expulsion of the North American
Ambassador and in pointing out that this was all about a
“circus” to distract the voters and to stop the breaking
apart of the pro Chávez movement. They stated that 29
denounces of coups d´etat have been formulated,
including the assassination hypothesis, and there is
nobody processed or sentenced for these crimes. The
High Military Command declared that there was unity in
the Armed Forces. “We have a very efficient
intelligence and counter intelligence apparatus. We
knew of the denounces, but the fact is that we were
informed of the details upon the President’s public
declarations”. As per El Universal, Chávez is
ever more cornered by his own mistakes, in a context of
corruption that is being perceived by the population and
the dissatisfaction by the inefficiency of the social
programs and the plans for the poorest sectors. “The
expulsion of the US Ambassador is a manifestation of
desperation, before the international opinion and before
the country. Regrettably, these mistakes have a cost
that we will all pay”.
ANTONINI´S BRIEFCASE EXPLODES
The
suitcase full of Dollars ceased in Buenos Aires to the
Venezuelan business man Guido Antonini in August of 2007
turned out to be a bomb with a tremendous explosive
power. Again, it is highlighted in the media of many
countries due to the evidence that is surfacing at the
trial in the US by the District Attorney’s Office
against Franklin Durán, accused as an undercover agent
to disguise the origin and destiny of the money.
Testimonies presented confirm that the $800,000 were
supplied by PDVSA for Cristina Kirchner´s campaign.
She affirms that it is a “garbage operation” and her
Chancellor’s Office issued a communication alleging
that the relations with the US “are affected”. For
Chávez, these are “lies from the Empire”, and announced
that during the following days he will have an interview
with Mrs. K to ratify cooperation agreements. The Casa
Rosada informed that the interview was suspended.
Venezuela Hoy (August 15, 2007) commented on
the antecedents. Antonini appeared at Customs as the
carrier of the suitcase, in a rented plane by Enarsa
(the Argentinean State oil company), accompanied by
Pdvsa´s officers and Claudio Uberti, one of the, at the
time President´s Kirchner trusted men, allegedly in
charge of collecting funds for Cristina´s campaign.
For two days he remained free in Buenos Aires,
identified as an attendant to the meeting in the
Presidential house and traveled to the US, since he also
holds a US citizenship. Partners of the business man
were sent to Miami to inform him of the concern in
Caracas regarding the issue and they warned him that his
actions could risk the lives of his children. Scared,
Antonini resolved to collaborate with the authorities,
in exchange of not being tried, agreeing to work with
the FBI recording the following conversations that he
had with officers very close to Chávez. The information
obtained determined that three of the partners pledged
guilty of having conspired, pressured and blackmailed
Antonini so that he would not implicate Chávez´ regime,
in exchange of a reduction in the sanction. This is how
the District Attorney´s Office is presenting evidences
that surface the mafia signs of the so called Bolivarian
Revolution.
Chávez
would have personally ordered General Rangel Silva, his
director in the intelligence agency, to “resolve” the
scandal. The ones implied appear as the Vice President
at the time, Jorge Rodríguez, as well as Ministers,
amongst which appears the current Ministry of Justice
and Interior, the President of Pdvsa, whose
authorization was indispensable for the delivery of the
Dollars. For the first time, in a reliable criminal
trial, the x ray of the so called “Boli bourgeoisie”
appears. As per the confessions of four “Bolivarian”
emblematic characters, who, at the beginning of the
regime shared their lack of money with their lack of
scruples, and who ended up as royal owners or
intermediaries of major companies that made business
with the government, received dozens of Millions of
Dollars to pay commissions to high ranking officers,
placed public funds in private banks to profit and
distribute the commissions, they bought and sold arms in
complicity with the Governors and Military Chiefs, whom
they blackmailed. They said that in one operation they
won over $100 Million and paid a bribe of $23.8. The
trial is the documentary that explains Chávez´ efforts
to distract the public national and international
opinion with his scatological shows. La Nación
of Buenos Aires published a report with new data that
appeared in the Miami trial, according to which, other
briefcases were transported in the Enarsa plane, which
contents, all together, were of $ 5 Million. During the
whole process, Chávez´ argument is that this is a
fallacy from the Empire which is dedicated to
destabilize the Revolutionary government.
WILLING TO DIE FOR BOLIVIA
For
Chávez´ judgment, the communication from the Office for
the Control of Foreign Goods from the Department of the
Treasure of the US (OFAC), who pointed out the top heads
of his intelligence agency as collaborators of
international terrorism, is an infamy from the Empire.
The black list includes the Director of Military
Intelligence, Hugo Carvajal; General Rangel Silva, Head
of the Political Police and Captain Rodríguez Chacín,
who was, until recently, the Ministry of the Interior.
As per the communication, the three men “supported and
financed the FARC, protected drug shipments and supplied
arms to the drug guerrilla so that they maintained
control in the Arauca Department, which borders with
Venezuela, known as a zone for the cultivation and
elaboration of cocaine. They are pointed out as
suppliers of official identification documents from the
Venezuelan government to members of the FARC, to
facilitate their travels. As a consequence of the
measure, their assets and funds in the US were frozen
and it is forbidden to any US citizen to make business
with the mentioned officers. Although the measure is
only applied in the US, in practice it has grave
implications at the international level for the ones
affected. Apart from the US banks, many international
institutions have of policy of closing the bank accounts
and canceling the credit cards to the persons outlined
by the OFAC, which black list is disclosed in the world
financial system and which is available in Internet.
Aló
Presidente was the
opportunity for Chávez to show his satisfaction for the
presence of the Russian bombers in Venezuela. They are
the biggest war planes in the world. The Tu-160 may
carry 12 rockets with nuclear or conventional missiles
and 40 tons of bombs. Moscow announced today that
Russia will temporarily install in Venezuela attack
planes for submarines. The Venezuelan Navy, on their
part, published a communication informing that 4 Russian
vessels with approximately 1,000 men will be maneuvering
in territorial waters from November 10 through November
14. “On the part of the Venezuelan Navy component, the
missile vessels, patrol and transport squadrons, air,
navy and submarine units, as well as other patrol planes
from the Aviation will participate in the operational
exercises”. Chávez explained that three months ago he
had signed with Russia an agreement for this Military
exercises. “The Russian decision – he manifested – was
taken on account of our initiative”. According to
Chávez, thanks to the strategic cooperation with Russia,
those planes and the naval patrolling over the Atlantic
in the days to come will allow to be duly informed of
the movements of the IV North American fleet. “So that
it hurts you, pitiyanquis”. “If something were to
happen to Evo Morales, if he were overthrown, I will not
remain with my arms crossed”. This was the phrase used
to announce his trip to Chile, for the meeting of Unesur,
where, as he affirmed, he proposes to obtain a unanimous
condemnation to the conspiracy of the Bolivian oligarchy
with the barefaced support from the US. He challenged
the Bolivian Military, specially the Commander of the
Army, for his rejection expressions over his
collaboration offer. “There are many gorilla generals
in Latin America, show me, General Trigo, that I am
mistaken with you”. He asked the Bolivian Military not
to join the game of Imperialism. “Do the same as the
Venezuelan soldiers…I am a soldier of the big country,
and just the same way that I fight for Venezuela, I am
willing to die for Bolivia”.
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