South America: CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chávez

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South America: CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chávez


by Kurt Nimmo,

"How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez?" asked historian William Blum in 2002. "Same way we know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. That's what it's always done and there's no reason to think that tomorrow morning will be any different."

Now we have a bit more evidence the CIA and the FBI connived with reactionary elements to not only briefly overthrow Chávez, abolish the constitution and the National Assembly, but later assassinate the Venezuelan State Prosecutor, Danilo Anderson. He was killed by a car bomb in Caracas on November 18, 2004, while investigating those who were behind the coup. Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas, a member of Colombia's right wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, claims he was in charge of logistics for the plot to kill Danilo Anderson. Vasquez De Armas told the Attorney General's office that those planning the killing, "all discussed the plan with the help of the FBI and CIA."

And the sun will rise tomorrow.

"According to the Attorney General, Vasquez De Armas said that during a meeting in Darien, Panama, on September 4 and 6, 2003, an FBI Officer called 'Pesquera' and a CIA agent called 'Morrinson,' attended a meeting along with two of the plot's alleged organizers, Patricia Poleo and Salvador Romani, as well as two of those who actually did the killing, Rolando and Otoniel Guevera," writes Alessandro Parma. "An official from the Attorney General's office, speaking on behalf of Vasquez De Armas, said that in Panama the FBI and the plotting Venezuelans agreed, 'to take out Chavez and the Government.' He said, 'the meeting's final objective was to kill President Chavez and the Attorney General.'" None of this is new or particularly revelatory.

Steve Kangas writes:

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator's security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be "communists," but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow.

Examples include the coup to overthrow the democratically elected leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, the ouster of democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala, one coup per year (between 1957-1973) in Laos, the installation of the murderous "Papa Doc" Duvalier in Haiti, the assassination of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, the overthrow of Jose Velasco in Ecuador, the assassination of the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba in the Congo (later Zaire), the overthrow of the democratically elected Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart in Brazil, the overthrow of the democratically elected Sukarno government in Indonesia, a military coup in Greece designed to install the "reign of the colonels" (when the Greek ambassador complained about CIA plans for Cypress, Johnson told him: "F— your parliament and your constitution"), the overthrow of the popular Prince Sahounek in Cambodia, the overthrow of Juan Torres in Bolivia, the overthrow and assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile, the assassination of archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador, and dozens of other incidents rarely if ever taught in American school history lessons.

As John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man), as a former respected member of the international banking community and National Security Agency economist, told Amy Goodman: "Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring—to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government…. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men." Perkins' job was "deal-making":

It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of the loan—let's say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador—and this country would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure—a Halliburton or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, "Look, you're not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil." And today we're going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they've accumulated all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

Most of the money for these loans, according to Perkins, is provided by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the two premier neolib loan sharking operations (it is important to note that the Straussian neocon, Paul Wolfowitz, is now president of the World Bank, thus demonstrating how closely related the neocons and traditional neolibs are).

If the loan sharks are unable to steal natural resources (oil, minerals, rainforests, water) as a condition of repaying this immense debt, "the next step is what we call the jackals."

Jackals are CIA-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work, they perform assassinations—or try to. In the case of Iraq, they weren't able to get through to Saddam Hussein… His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die and kill, which is what we've obviously done in Iraq.

Hugo Chávez is now between the assassination point of this neolib plan and invasion, when "our young men and women" will be "sent in to die and kill" Venezuelan peasants the same way they are now killing poor Iraqis. Of course, it remains to be seen if Bush can actually invade Venezuela—the neocon roster is teeming with targets, from Syria to Iran—and so we can expect the Bushcons and their jackals to continue efforts to assassinate Chávez, as Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas reveals the CIA and the FBI are attempting to do, with little success. One notable failure by the jackals is Fidel Castro in Cuba, who experienced numerous assassination attempts and CIA counterinsurgency specialist Edward Lansdale's Operation Mongoose (consisting of sabotage and political warfare), also known as the "Cuba Project."

As Blum notes, we know all of this is happening, same as we know the sun will come up tomorrow.

[Don Quixote]

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1838

"Venezuelan Oil Pipeline Attacked for Election Day"

and so it begins. the CIA terrorists have been sent in to Venezuela to perform their normal duties of rape , murder , torture , bombings , child-killing and other acts of terrorism.

i remember how the Sandanista in Nicaragua said they would provide school busses , books and classrooms for every child in the country so that every child would be guaranteed an education.

i remember how the CIA planted fire-bombs (cia 'cannon') on the petrol tanks of those busses and burned hundreds of kids alive to discredit the Sandanista's education program

i remember how the CIA terrorists tortured , raped and murdered 4 young nuns.

i remember the 'disaparacido' in Argentina , chile , Ecuador , Paraguay , Bolivia , Columbia , Peru , Mexico , Honduras , Venezuela , Uraguay , Panema and all over the caribean islands.

i remember my American friends (REAL Americans) insisting that i march with them to the Brazilian embassy to protest against 'FUNAI' exterminating the Indians of the Amazon basin

i remember how one of my American friends was diliberately crushed against a wall by a 4 ton , armoured police van and suffered internal bleedind , a crushed pelvis and six severe fractures to both legs.

i remember the fear in her eyes as she lay on the ground and held my hand and begged me not to leave her alone and the look of condemnation in her parents eyes as they arrived at the english hospital to fly their daughter home to Calfornia.

i also remember how my father looked me in the eye and made me give my word 'never to take arms against , or to kill any human being'.

there were many times in my life when i regretted giving my word to my father , but when i look back at my life today i can honestly say i am glad and i am proud that i kept my word.

you cannot fight fire with fire , evil with evil , hatred with hatred.

if you become like your enemy you lose your legitemacy.you become no better than the evil you oppose.

the very greatest men and women of our species were ALL people who opposed violence and oppression , not with violence , but with courage , righteousness , integrity , dignity and honour.

most of them died for their beliefs , but we remember them because they did not compromise what they stood for.they lived by their beliefs and were not afraid to die by them.

i wish i could say i had that sort of strength and courage , but i don't.i am , however , proud to say that i have 'broken bread' with many men and women cut from that cloth.it was an honour to know them.there are many here at the THC-MINISTRY.

PEACE

JUSTICE

HUMANITY.

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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves."

"One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

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[Don Quixote]

there has been too much focus on US. involvement in Venezuela and not enough mention of British involvement.

britain ,under the orders of brit toffs like lord hansen and sir peter goldsmith and lord vestry have long been established as the single biggest destroyer of the Amazonian rain-forrest.

not even the US or japan can equal the devastation caused by this small , insignificant regime in the north atlantic.

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By: Karen Hill

Thurs 8th September, El Charcote, San Carlos, Cojedes

I decided I would go to El Charcote, near San Carlos, as I had heard that there was a land dispute between a wealthy English Company and some campesino families who had occupied the land.

I thought that perhaps our solidarity group could do something to support the campesinos in their struggle to stay on the land. El Charcote ranch is a 12,950 hectare piece of land which Agroflora, a subsidiary of the Vestey Group, claims to own.

The Vestey Group is vastly wealthy (Lord Vestey is the 56th richest person in the UK) and owns 13 farms in Venezuela alone, as well as land across the whole of South America.

They are known to have destroyed huge areas of rain-forest in Brazil in order to rear cattle which supply the meat for McDonalds.....

read the rest of this story here :--->

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1570

and read how at least 1000 british 'elite forces' troops (death squads such as SAS) were stationed INSIDE Venezuela.


PEACE

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