Former general arrested in Venezuela on charges of involvement in bombings

[struggle4progress]

February 6, 2005

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Military intelligence officers have captured a former general was wanted for involvement in bombings that rocked the Spanish Embassy and Colombian Consulate two years ago in a reputed attempt to embarrass the government of President Hugo Chavez.

Defence Minister Gen. Jorge Garcia Carneiro said in a statement broadcast on state television Sunday that former National Guard Gen. Felipe Rodriguez was captured Saturday "after a difficult search at the national and international level." <snip>

Rodriguez was among top military officers who rose up against Chavez in a short-lived 2002 coup. He later helped lead demonstrations in a plaza in Caracas along with other military commanders opposed to Chavez's leftist government.

Prosecutors have charged Rodriguez, along with former lieutenants, Jose Antonio Colina and German Varela, of carrying out the attacks on the Spanish and Colombian diplomatic missions in February 2003, which injured four people. They face charges of placing explosives, damage to property and causing personal injuries. <snip>

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=929bbae5-5ef2-4433-9672-7ccf26ec3ad9


Car-bombing, Coup-plotting & the CIA in Venezuela
By Charley Allan
Friday, 03 December 2004

This article by Charley Allan, organiser of the London Hands Off Venezuela campaign, appeared in the Morning Star of December 2.

<snip> Then came the assassination of Danilo Anderson. The 38-year old State Prosecutor was blown up in his car by two attached bombs with remote control detonation, after attending a graduate class at the Bolivarian University. Two suspects in the murder were killed in shoot-outs with police during the following week, and two others have been arrested.

Danilo Anderson was leading the case against the "golpistas" (the coup-plotters who had orchestrated the kidnapping of Chávez and the overthrow of his democratic government in April 2002) and was only days away from formally presenting his case, having just issued over 400 subpoenas. <snip>

Also, a top secret CIA document titled "Venezuela: Conditions Ripening for Coup Attempt", was obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request by Eva Golinger, a New York-based lawyer. The memo was written on April 6th 2002 - just five days before the coup. <snip>

Golinger also discovered that, since 2001, the US government has channelled over $20-million to forces fiercely opposed to President Chávez. Three-quarters of it came from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a quasi-governmental entity entirely funded by Congress and widely perceived to be a CIA-front. <snip>

http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/coup_cia_venezuela.htm

[Moderator]

1. Kick

:kick:

[leesa]

2. Well now, this should be interesting!

As Mr Perkins would say in "Confessions of An Econmic Hitman", The jackels have failed and the military is next.

[Judi Lynn]

3. He sounds like a good guy to put on ice for awhile. He's not too nice.

He's probably a real asset to _Bush's friends, however.

Grenade explosion at pro-Chavez demonstration

The 23 of January of 2003, a hand grenade of the M-26 type exploded in a waste basket killing a person and injuring several others. Two individuals with previous convictions were accused, "Michael" and "Kojac", who are connected to a anti-Chavez Colonel Pigliery of the group of Plaza Altamira, and with general Felipe Rodriguez, nicknamed "the Crow." Rafael Villanueva Machado was a contact among them and Rubén Gámez, is supposed to have provided the supplies for the attack.

Villanueva Machado had made a declaration to 11th Court of everything that he knew about the grenades, which allowed the forensic police (CICPC) find the presumed attackers. "Kojac" is supposed to have been killed in a holdup of an armored truck, and Michael is still wanted by the police. Colonel Piliery was arrested for having violated an injunction, but he was released and is today being sought for homicide.

The grenade was prepared with a device called "chemical pencil", which would cause the grenade to explode in a certain moment. It was going to be placed in the route where the President was to pass by, but the individuals were frightened and placed it among the multitude in the Avenida Bolivar and preferred to leave it in trash bin, causing the indicated damage.
(snip)

In an earlier meeting in the Four Seasons Hotel , made before the signing of the pact between the military of Altamira and the opposition coalition Democratic Coordinator, sectors of the this organization met with general Felipe Rodriguez, colonel Piliery Carmona, and general González González, and arrived at the conclusion that it was necessary to generate violent actions, to destabilize, and to cause chaos because by the democratic route it was impossible to remove to president Chávez. In this meeting there were some members of the Democratic Coordinator who participated in the O.A.S., PNUD and Center the Carter dialogues, who approved of the action.
(snip/...)

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print.php?newsno=1118

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The murdered prosecuting attorney, Danilo Anderson.

Government spokesmen refrained from making any official declarations on the identity of the victim until forensics experts had positively identified the body as state prosecutor Danilo Anderson's late Friday morning. Shortly after arriving at the scene of the crime in the early hours of Friday morning, Minister of Justice and the Interior Jesse Chacon stated "there is no doubt that what took place was an assassination... Whoever did it prepared it with premeditation, and sufficient time." "Anderson had bodyguards assigned to him," continued Chacon, "but whenever he attended his class he dismissed them. It was a routine he had, and we assume that his murder was planned on this routine."

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http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Anderson_Danilo.shtml

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Thanks for posting the articles, struggle4progress.