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 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:21 am Post subject: Chavez Kicks DEA out of VENEZUALA! |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050807/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us_drugs
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By PATRICIA RONDON ESPIN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of using its agents for
espionage, and said Venezuela was suspending cooperation with the U.S.
agency.
Chavez, who regularly accuses the U.S. government of plotting against
him, said "the DEA isn't absolutely necessary for the fight against drug
trafficking."
U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield said last week that the United States
had hoped to maintain cooperative anti-drug efforts in Venezuela, and
that without them "there is only one group that wins, and that group is
the drug traffickers."
But Chavez maintains that the DEA has been using the fight against drugs
as a pretext to gather intelligence on Venezuela.
"The DEA was using the fight against drug trafficking as a mask, to
support drug trafficking, to carry out intelligence in Venezuela against
the government," Chavez said.
"Under those circumstances we decided to make a clean break with those
accords, and we are reviewing them," Chavez said, referring to the
cooperative agreements under which the DEA has operated in the South
American country.
Prosecutors last month opened an investigation into the DEA in Venezuela.
"We have detected intelligence infiltration that threatened national
security and defense," Chavez said.
He acknowledged that Venezuela is a major transit point for cocaine
moving from Colombia to the United States and Europe. But he said
Venezuela's own armed forces have made important advances against
trafficking.
As for the DEA, he said specifics of his government's decisions will be
announced soon. Chavez's comments were the most specific to date on the
accusations against the DEA.
Chavez criticized U.S. policy on drugs, saying that while the United
States is the world's top consumer of drugs, its government does little
to try to lessen consumption.
He also criticized the
CIA and
FBI of not doing enough to catch major drug kingpins in the United
States. "How strange they don't find them," he said.
The relations between Venezuela and the United States have been marked
by tension during Chavez's more than six years in power. Chavez accuses
the U.S. government of backing a brief coup against him in 2002, while
U.S. officials have dismissed such accusations as ridiculous.
Despite frequent harsh words between the governments, Venezuela remains
a major supplier of oil to the United States.
Hugo is so cool!!
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Too bad Paul Martin didn't have the balls to do the same in Canada.
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Amerikkka's only interest in Venezuela is oil.
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posted April 20, 2005, updated 12:30 p.m.
Venezuela flexes oil muscle
US sees oil and Chavez's ambitions as a troublesome mix
By Jim Bencivenga | csmonitor.com
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may be in Moscow, but she has Caracas on her mind.
Ms. Rice, who arrived in Russia Tuesday for talks with that country's leaders is "concerned" about some arms sales in Latin America, specifically Venezuela, reports Bloomberg News.
The Russian government played down US concerns by countering that any of its proposed arms deals with Venezuela are in line with international agreements and international law.
Prior to Rice's trip, the US State Department issued its own accusations saying that Venezuela's purchase of 100,000 Russian Kalashnikov rifles, Brazilian helicopters and Spanish patrol boats, might find its way into the hands of Colombian "insurgents."
The Bush administration has also accused Venezuela President Hugo Chavez of having a "poor human rights record and of meddling in the internal affairs of neighboring countries," reports Bloomberg.
Venezuela signed a $120 million contract for Russian military helicopters that includes attack, assault and transport aircraft last month. The purchases are the largest for the country's armed forces since Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999....
The arms are intended to beef up security along the Colombian border where kidnappings and armed incursions by Colombian irregulars are common, Venezuela's information ministry said.
Venezuela is also studying the purchase of Russian MIG-29s, the Russian press has reported.
For its part, Venezuela, the "Saudi Arabia of Latin American" maintains a heightened wariness about US foreign policy vis-a-vis its oil reserves, reports India Daily.
Last week, Mr. Chavez celebrated the second anniversary of a failed coup to overthrow his government by swearing in "commanders of a new military reserve" patterned after Fidel Castro's local militias, which Chavez says are "meant to deter aggression against his country," reports the BBC.
Twenty-thousand reservists paraded before Mr Chavez at the main military barracks in Caracas. The new formation, which the president wants to become a two million-strong force in the near future, will be directly under his command. The move comes amid growing tension between Venezuela and the US.
Chavez claims the ultimately unsuccessful April 2002 coup was backed by US interests. Believing he will face more such coups, Chavez has expanded his relations with Russia, China, India and Iran, says India Daily.
The oil asset of Venezuela makes it vulnerable. But China, India and Russia have interest in the same. [For Chavez] that may make some difference. The BRIC alliance (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will oppose any invasion or external intervention in Venezuela. It will be of interest to see how BRIC will defend its Venezuelan oil interests in case of a similar crisis.
Venezuela currently supplies the United States with over 15% of its oil, making the South American nation its 4th largest supplier, after Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Mexico.
On related energy matters, Houston-based Citgo Petroleum Corp., owned by Venezulea's state oil company, PDVSA, announced plans on Wednesday to sell two of its eight US refineries, reports the Houston Business Journal.
[Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez] reiterated previous assertions that Venezuela does not intend to sell all of Citgo's assets, which include about 13,000 service stations in the United States.
Ramirez and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have complained that Venezuela's contracts with refineries in the US are unprofitable for Venezuela and constitute a subsidy for the US economy.
They have said the same thing about the country's production contracts with US and multinational oil companies and have warned that all of these operating agreements will have to be rewritten with higher fees paid to Venezuela and with greater control given to PDVSA.
Chavez has said he wants to diversify the client list for Venezuela's oil, and in recent months he has struck a series of energy accords with neighboring countries, as well as China and Spain.
In his weekly live television show, Chavez called on fellow Venezuelans "to follow the example of Don Quixote" reports The CBC.
Let us all read Quixote to feed ourselves once again with that spirit of a fighter who went out to undo injustices and fix the world," he said. 'To some extent, we are all followers of Quixote.'
Chavez's remarks came ahead of a planned [one million book] giveaway of the novel. On April 23, free copies of the book will be given away by the Venezuelan government in the country's public squares.
Quixote is the central character in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, the 17th-century work that is widely regarded as history's first novel.
In the story, a would-be knight, depicted as brain-adled from reading too many chivalric romances, travels the Castillian countryside righting imaginary wrongs. His most famous battle is against imaginary giants which are, in reality, windmills. The knight of the woeful countenance is accompanied by his faithful, more realistic servant, Sancho Panza.
How much the dreamer, or realist, Chavez turns out to be remains an open question.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0420/dailyUpdate.html
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Oh, you're such a pessimest, Aero!
Surely they have other goodies we can plunder!!!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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We have oil 
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We have oil |
Note to self: Canada...has...oil...
Thanks, Indicaspice! When "Our Boyz" come to "liberate" you from your godless, tyranical government, be sure to throw flowers!
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Daily Press Briefing
Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman
Washington, DC
August 8, 2005
MR. ERELI: Well, first of all, the accusations that somehow the Drug Enforcement Agency is involved in espionage are baseless...
QUESTION: Back to the (inaudible) issue. Given that you're so clear that the accusation is baseless, are you doing anything to explain what the agents do in Venezuela or allay the host government's fears?
MR. ERELI: I think, you know, I don't -- you see, the fears are baseless...  
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That IS funny....and, it's just like every other answer they give about...anything...
They have a talking-point-sound-byte ... and that's ALL.
They can't point to facts...or come close to telling the truth...about anything... because they've screwed up EVERYTHING so very, very badly.
Pass the popcorn, please.
Bliss,
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| Chavez called the United States the "most savage, cruel and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world." |
WOW!! Chavez knows about history.
The more I hear about Chavez, the more I like him. 
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Stinkweeds?
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Stinkweeds? |
Or better yet...BC BUD ... that should put an end to hostilities right away.
Should, anyway.
Bliss on,
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This translated report comes from http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/8/9/151929/2139
Another piece of the puzzle behind Venezuela’s rejection of the DEA: according to Justice Ministor Jesse Chacón, the U.S. agency had taken over an entire floor of a Venezuelan government building and refused to let Venezuelans into it.
Aporrea report (in spanish):
[Chacón] explained that the current controversy with the DEA has do with the fact that in the CONACUID (Venezuela’s drug control agency) building, “there was a floor where Venezuelans could not enter, only DEA agents could go inside. As we make this change, we demand that they please open that floor.”
The minister said that “on the day that the DEA lets us open a floor in their office in the United States where only Venezuelans can enter, we will allow them to have a floor in the CONACUID where only U.S. citizens can enter. Until then, no.”
Of course this must come as a shock to the gringos, many of who can’t seem to fathom that when they leave their own country, THEY become the foreigners and need to act with some courtesy for their hosts. |
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we should have a poll on how long it will take the CIA to assasinate mr.Chavez.
or will they simply arrange a coup again.the last one was a typical CIA shambles.
i got family there and the people are definately benefitting from his leadership
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