Venezuela's Public Defender ... denounces US interference in paramilitary

[bemildred]

case.

The shit is hitting the fan in Venezuela too. Quite a
few interesting stories on Vheadline, and a classic pic of
Shapiro with a shit-eating grin on his face (here).
A sample includes:
. Kicking the US military out
. First exchange of fuel for food with Argentina
. Venezuela retires $250M foreign debt
. and of course this attempted paramilitary coup case

VENPRES reports: Public Defender German Mundarain has stated categorically that there is well-founded historical
evidence to suspect that the US State Department participated in the paramilitary operation frustrated last Sunday by
state security agencies.

The maximum defender of human rights said that he?s convinced that ?there are (local) groups who are conniving with
traditional terrorist and criminal groups.? He added that he is fed up with knowing how paramilitary groups operate in the
world, principally in Colombia, almost always with funding from drug trafficking; they are permanently dedicated to
developing terrorist acts.

Vheadline

[Judi Lynn]

1. Shapiro is a malignant remnant of a person. Only resembles a man.

Thanks for the info. I'm coming back to study it later.

[maddezmom]

2. here's another link: Miami, Colombia Behind Paramilitary Invasion-Chavez

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5124516

[htuttle]

3. About the Miami connection

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print.php?artno=1031

Waiting for a response to U.S.-based terrorists

On January 29, 2003, The U.S. daily, the Wall Street Journal, published an editorial revealing the existence of terrorist training camps in Florida. Rodolfo Frómeta, a Cuban, and former Army Captain Luis Eduardo García, a Venezuelan, are named in the article as the leaders of the paramilitary coalition formed by the "F-4 Commandos" and "The Venezuelan Patriotic Junta." García, a former Captain, was one of the leaders of the defeated coup against democratically elected president Hugo Chavez Frías in Venezuela in April 2002.

The training camps located in the Florida Everglades seem to have escaped the reach of the Department of Homeland Security, which was created by President Bush as a way of protecting the United States against terrorist attacks. This oversight seems to come from the fact that this coalition was not set up to attack the United States; instead, it follows the tradition of the Contras and their terror campaign in Nicaragua, and other groups such as Alpha 66 and the F-4 itself and their terror campaigns against Cuba. This time the coalition between F-4 and the Venezuelan Junta has been set up to train paramilitary forces to terrorize Venezuela.

Shortly after the Wall Street Journal article came out, the Venezuelan government made information available to the U.S. embassy in Venezuela specifically detailing the activities carried out by these two groups. The Venezuelan government did not receive a response from the U.S. embassy at that time. It was not until plans to assassinate President Chávez surfaced, during his planned visit to Harlem, New York last September, that the Venezuelan government went public denouncing the plot and the existence of terrorist groups, training freely in Florida, conspiring to overthrow the government. In addition, in a televised appearance before the international media, Chavez revealed that his government is in possession of a video, secretly recorded by his security forces, of a CIA officer giving a class to Venezuelans on surveillance.

(much more at link)
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/print.php?artno=1031

Here's a link to the Wall Street Journal article on the F-4 Commandos own website:

Miami's Little Havana Finds New Foe in Venezuelan Leader

MIAMI - As if beleaguered Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez didn't have enough problems already, now the F-4 Commandos are on his case.

With headquarters in a shabby second floor walk-up in the down-at-the-heels neighborhood of Little Havana, the Commandos are one of a raft of tiny, and largely toothless, Cuban-American groups dedicated to the overthrow of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Not long ago, the self-proclaimed leader of the F-4 Commandos, Comandante Rodolfo Frómeta, 56 years old, signed a "civic-military" allegiance with dissident Venezuelan Cap Luis Eduardo Garcia, leader of the Venezuelan Patriotic Junta. The two groups have vowed to join their combined military experience and exchange "intelligence and counterintelligence" to combat Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Mr. Chavez, whom the groups brand as "traitors to the Latin American fatherland."

"Our goal is to see Venezuela and Cuba be free," says Mr. Frómeta, a slight man who sports a black, Ho Chi Minh-style wispy beard and whose day Job consists of chauffeuring elderly patients to a medical clinic. "We want Venezuela to be free by peaceful means but in Cuba the only way is through an insurrection."

These days, it's deja vu all over again in Miami.

(more)
http://www.comandosf4.org/newspaper/2003-01-29.htm

If you browse around the 'commandos' website, you can see a selection of photos that include automatic weapons training sessions with Venezuelans. This has been happening in Florida for some time.

[bemildred]

4. It's an interesting (and cool) situation.

Hugo is getting his way, and things are getting better
in VZ, and there doesn't seem to be much Uncle Sugar can
do about it. The coups keep failing, more and more dismally
each time. And VZ is getting it's shit together, no IMF,
no WTO, shipping more oil than before, paying off sovereign
debt, working out bi-lateral trade arrangements, building
schools and micro-radio stations and farms. Getting rid of
the obstructionist judges in the courts. What I can see of
economic stats look better all the time.

It's a really bad example from Uncle Sugars point of view, and
the longer it goes on the more it will be imitated.