Venezuelan Government Foils Destabilisation Plans
Venezuelan Government Foils Destabilisation Plans
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim
Military and government officials have stated that Colombian paramilitaries procured Venezuelan military uniforms, C4 explosives and 50 high capacity magazines for use in an attack on Venezuelan soil (YVKE).
Merida, April 12th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan security forces have foiled a plot to violently destabilise the country, Vice-president Jorge Arreaza announced this afternoon.
“The Bolivarian National Armed Forces and state security agencies have dismantled a plan that would affect the election or post-election,” Arreaza told Venezuelan media.
He further stated that the plot involved Salvadorian mercenaries who “wanted, but could not, intervene to disrupt the peace of the republic at the last minute”.
The government first announced the presence of two groups of Salvadorian mercenaries operating in Venezuela on April 6.
Internal Affairs and Justice Minister Nestor Reverol warned that the groups were funded by drug trafficking, and have links to far right terrorists including Luis Posada Carriles. Currently living in Miami, Carriles has been convicted in Panama of a number of terrorist attacks, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airline that claimed 73 lives.
Arreaza also stated that a group of students have been arrested after attempting to “storm” the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Airbase in Caracas. The same group previously tried to enter the National Guard headquarters in Paradise, near the capital, according to Arreaza.
Yesterday, security forces also arrested Colombian paramilitaries operating in Venezuela, interim President Nicolas Maduro announced last night.
In a series of early morning raids, authorities reported that the paramilitaries possessed Venezuelan military uniforms, and were stockpiling C4 explosives and other material.
Among the confiscated materiel, the Bolivarian Guard seized 50 high capacity magazines, Defence Minister Diego Molero Bellavia said today.
Maduro has stated the paramilitaries “came to kill”, and urged Venezuelans to be vigilant, “without falling into provocations” of violence.
Within hours of Maduro's announcement last night, an employee of the state run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) died in a Caracas hospital from gunshot wounds.
According to VTV, the employee was gunned down outside PDVSA's La Campina offices, where a number of workers were engaging in a pro-Maduro celebration. VTV reported that witnesses believe the attack was politically motivated.
Mining and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez warned earlier this week that the oil sector is a potential target for destabilising forces.
“We are aware of destabilisation and chaos attempts, and we are committed to maintaining peace and stability,” AVN reported Ramirez as stating on Tuesday.
Today, however, Arreaza praised the work of security forces, stating that a peaceful vote on Sunday is “guaranteed”.
Published on Apr 12th 2013 at 6.08pm
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men so desperate for money, as one of them said, they were willing to carry in bombs to Cuba and plant them in places where Carriles wanted to do the most damage to destroy Cuba's tourism business.
There were 3 caught at one time and I think one was a woman. One was slated for execution, Leon Cruz, who killed an Italian young man, but Cuba decided to put aside the death sentence for him. The Italian tourist's father decided he wanted to move to Cuba to live out his life there.
The some of this new information sounds exactly like the mercenaries who were caught living on the ranch of Cuban-Venezuelan (with Miami ties, of course) opposition creep, Roberto Alonso, near Caracas. Over a period of time they eventually rounded up more than 100 of these guys. After they had all been interrogated and served time in prison, Hugo Chavez released a lot of them to return to Colombia.
Earlier there had been many Venezuelan people who marched in the streets protesting this plot by the opposition all those years ago, around the time of the recall attempt, although almost no one in the U,S. heard about it, of course!
Here's one article posted in the Guardian:
Colombian paramilitaries arrested in Venezuela
Jeremy Lennard and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Monday 10 May 2004 07.20 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/may/10/venezuela.jeremylennard
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Published on Monday, May 17, 2004 by the Agence France Presse
Thousands Protest Colombian Paramilitary Presence in Venezuela
Chavez to Set up 'People's Militia'
President Hugo Chavez announced his government would establish "people's militias" to counter what he called foreign interference after an alleged coup plot by Colombian paramilitaries Caracas claims was financed by Washington.
Chavez also said he would boost the strength of Venezuela's armed forces as part of a new "anti-imperialist" phase for his government.
"Each and every Venezuelan man and woman must consider themselves a soldier," said Chavez.
"Let the organization of a popular and military orientation begin from today."
The president's announcement came a week after authorities arrested 88 people described as Colombian paramilitaries holed up on property belonging to a key opposition figure.
Earlier, thousands of Chavez supporters draped in national colors marched through the streets of Caracas to protest the alleged coup plot.
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel claimed the United States and Colombians were involved in the conspiracy.
"This march is in response to the conspiracy mounted by the Colombian oligarchy and the North American empire, but we will defeat them," Rangel said.
Rangel said the number of paramilitaries and people arrested linked to the plot uncovered last week had now risen to 120, out of 130 believed to be implicated.
More:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0517-04.htm
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Chavez: Colombian plot foiled
PARAMILITARIES The Venezuelan president says that irregular fighters from Colombia had been planning to overthrow his troubled government
AP , EL HATILLO, VENEZUELA
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuelan police had arrested at least 77 suspected Colombian paramilitary members who were allegedly training to strike against his government. Opposition leaders said the raids were a government-hatched scheme meant to divert attention from their presidential recall effort.
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Now they are importing terrorists," Chavez said of his opponents, "and they are looking for people here."
Henrique Capriles, a mayor who supports the opposition, rejected Chavez's allegations that the captured men were being financed by opposition. He called the raids "a show organized by the government" to turn attention away from efforts to hold a presidential recall vote.
Capriles said municipal police were the first to discover the alleged paramilitaries, and then tipped off federal agents.
More:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/05/11/2003155014
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Three Venezuelan Officers and 27 Colombians Sentenced for Assassination Plot
A Venezuelan military court sentenced three Venezuelan military officers and 27 Colombians to two to nine years of prison for plotting an assault on Venezuela’s presidential palace and the assassination of President Hugo Chavez.Another 73 Colombians and 3 Venezuelan officers, who had also been suspected of participating in the plot, were freed after spending 17 months in prison.
118 Colombians were captured in May 2004 on a ranch just outside of Caracas, wearing Venezuelan military fatigues. Many of them appeared to be Colombian paramilitary fighters who had been recruited for a mission in Venezuela to attack the Chavez government and to kill the president. Six Venezuelan officers were also arrested in the course of the investigation.
Some of the Colombians were peasants who had been lured to come to Venezuela with the promise of jobs. Upon arriving, though, they were forced to engage in paramilitary training exercises and were forbidden to leave the ranch. 18 of the Colombians were released immediately after the capture and returned to Colombia because they were minors between 15 and 17 years. The ranch belongs to Roberto Alonso, a prominent Cuban-Venezuelan opposition activist. The highest level officer to be sentenced was General Ovidio Poggioli, who had been charged with military rebellion and was sentenced to 2 years and ten months of prison. The other two Venezuelan officers are Colonel Jesús Farias Rodríguez and Captain Rafael Farias Villasmil, who were each sentenced to nine years of prison. The 27 Colombians were each sentenced to six years prison.
When the group of Colombians were first arrested, many opposition leaders argued that the government had staged the arrests, in order to make the opposition look bad. They pointed out that no weapons were found with the paramilitary fighters and that the whole operation looked far too amateurish to have any chance of success. Also, it was argued that it is practically impossible to transport 120 Colombian paramilitary fighters undetected all the way from Colombia to Caracas, considering that there are numerous military control points along the way.
More:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article130297.html
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How many other countries' presidents would actually release men engaged in a plot to murder them, anyway?
The people involved in this would not have fared the same had the old oligarchy been in place, the one whose president ordered his military to fire directly into the faces of protesting poor Venezuelans, and pursue them far back into their barrios where they fled, hoping to escape being murdered. How many people would the right-wing parasites have let go home to their own lives? How many? Yeah, that's right, every one knows how many. They are filth. They wanted Chavez dead for holding the office the Venezuelan people wanted him to hold. How low and primitive can human beings really get?
