Reuters: US welcomes anti-Chavez backlash at meeting

[Eugene]

US welcomes anti-Chavez backlash at meeting
Sun Jun 4, 2006 10:33pm ET

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - The United States welcomed friction
between Venezuela and some of its regional neighbors on Sunday, the opening day
of a meeting of the Western Hemisphere's top diplomatic body.

"It is encouraging that democracies in Latin American feel that Venezuela has been
infringing on their own democratic process are speaking up on their own," U.S. Deputy
Secretary of State Robert Zoellick told reporters.

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He spoke after Peruvian Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua told a news conference
he had vigorously denounced alleged Venezuelan meddling in Peru's electoral process
during a meeting of OAS foreign ministers, and heads of delegations with OAS Secretary-
General Jose Miguel Insulza.

Maurtua said he had voiced Peru's "formal and categorical rejection of interventionist
acts by President Hugo Chavez in Peru's internal politics."

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Full article: http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-05T023304Z_01_N01374339_RTRUKOC_0_US-LATAM-OAS.xml

[Webster Green]

1. Yankee go home!

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick is a fucking chimp-licking asshole!

[Robbien]

2. BushCo creates the situation, gets caught, but still lies about it

Boyer also claimed that he went to Peru with 19 other soldiers with orders by the Venezuelan president to train groups to cause social chaos during the next election.

“The campaign of Peruvian candidate Alan Garcia and of the government of that country against President Hugo Chavez Frias continues advancing without scruples: this time they have reached the extreme of contracting a known mercenary,” said the statement.

The Ministry of External Relations denied that Boyer was ever a soldier in the armed forces of Venezuela.

Some Peruvian officials have also expressed skepticism about Boyer’s identity. “If really is Venezuelan, he has lived in Trujillo for more than three years. He works as a bellhop in a restaurant called Al Carbon, owned by a militant , named Jorge Olivera.

What’s more, in the last electoral campaign he worked as a bodyguard for a congressional candidate of Congreso de Alianza por el Futuro,” said Alberto Escudero, Congressman Elect for Union por el Peru , according to Peru’s El Comercio.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=59830

So a bellhop living in Peru for three years also working as a bodyguard for someone on Garcia's staff publically claimed he had been working in Venezuela's army and was sent to Peru six months ago to cause disorder under Chavez's orders.

BushCo tells bad lies and picks stupid people to carry them out.

[jerry611]

3. Venezuela is the one causing problems

Isn't Venezuela increasing military forces on the Columbian border?

And it really isn't any of Hugo's business who the Peruvians elect for president.

I think latin American countries are starting to wonder what Hugo's true motivation is and what agenda he is trying to fulfill.

[Robbien]

4. You have that backward

Isn't three billon of OUR taxpayer money going to Columbia each year. Isn't it our military training schools Columbia sends their military to be trained. Isn't it our US funded contractors building bases at the Columbian border with Venezuela.

Didn't you read the thread at all. Bush is sitting there grinning ear to ear saying how glad he is that his friend Garcia is elected. What business is it of Bush's who gets elected in Peru? Never mind the threat he held over Peru saying the US will not talk trade with Peru unless Garcia gets elected. No that isn't interfering at all.

Latin American countries aren't worried about Chavez. The threat comes from the oil hungry big military country in the Northern Hemisphere.

[Judi Lynn]

5. You need to read more.Take time to scan this material.

Why do you imagine these Colombian paramilitaries are hiding their faces in Venezuela?

Victory in the War on Terrorism: Venezuelan Government Detains Colombian Paramilitaries

VICTORY IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM:
VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT DETAINS COLOMBIAN PARAMILITARIES AND PREVENTS MAJOR TERRORIST SCHEME

By: Eva Golinger

On Sunday, May 9, 2004, the Venezuelan government captured more than 70 Colombian paramilitaries, found illegally in the outskirts of Caracas on a farm owned by the extremist opposition leader, Robert Alonso. Mr. Alonso, a naturalized Venezuelan citizen of Cuban descent, has ties to the radical Cuban American community in Miami and is the founder of the “Guarimba”, a call for Venezuelans to resort to violent civil disobedience in order to force the ouster of President Hugo Chávez. The initial arrests were just the beginning of an investigation that has led to more than 100 detentions of Colombians tied to paramilitary groups in Colombia and several Venezuelan military officers charged with treason and rebellion.

Support from the Colombian Government

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Vélez has praised the Venezuelan government’s advance in the war on terrorism and has pledged its full support and collaboration in the capture of additional parties to the terrorist plans in Venezuela. In recent days, the Colombian government’s own investigations have revealed the involvement of the ex-director of the Cúcuta Prosecutor’s office, Ana María Flórez Silva, with paramilitaries on the Colombian-Venezuelan border. Specifically, the Colombian government possesses audio-tapes of intercepted conversations that evidence how the Cúcuta Prosecutor’s office facilitated illegal activities on the Colombian-Border that may have permitted the influx of paramilitaries into Venezuela.

According to investigations by the Venezuelan government, the paramilitary scheme was orchestrated in part by three known paramilitary leaders from the Norte de Santander State, of which Cúcuta is the capital city. José Ernesto Ayala, a/k/a “Lucas”; Rafael Antonio Omaña, a/k/a “Comandante Richard”; and Jefferson Gutiérrez, a/k/a “Comandante Jefferson” are the leaders thought to have directed the paramilitary infiltration from Colombia into Venezuela. Per the Colombian government’s investigations, it appears highly probable that these individuals were able to carry out the plans against the Venezuelan government with the assistance from the Cúcuta Prosecutor’s office and other corrupt law enforcement agencies in the State that are currently under investigation. The accused ex-director of the Cúcuta office, Ana María Flórez Silva, fled to Miami as soon as the current scandal became public.

Revelations

It is widely known in Colombian that paramilitary groups in the Norte de Santander State obtain their primary financing from gasoline and that they have been fighting to acquire a monopoly on the oil business prospering on the Colombian-Venezuelan border. The Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, on May 17, 2004, reported that the paramilitary infiltration into Venezuela had three layers: at the top of the hierarchy are the paramilitary leaders named above, followed by a second-tier group of individuals with some military experience and finally, at the lower level are the subjects recruited primarily from Cúcuta, some through deceitful means, to enter into Venezuela. This last group is the focus of the recent detentions in Venezuela.
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http://www.embavenez-us.org/news.php?nid=158#

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Published on Monday, May 17,
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.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0517-04.htm

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12.30pm update

Colombian paramilitaries arrested in Venezuela

Jeremy Lennard and agencies
Monday May 10, 2004

Venezuelan police have arrested more than 70 Colombian paramilitary fighters who were allegedly plotting to strike against the government in Caracas, according to the country's president, Hugo Chávez.
Opposition leaders, however, were quick to dismiss the president's claim, calling the raids on a farm less than 10 miles from the capital a ruse to divert attention from their efforts to oust Mr Chávez in a recall vote.

During his weekly radio and TV broadcast, Hello Mr President, Mr Chávez said that 53 paramilitary fighters were arrested at the farm early on Sunday and another 24 were picked up after fleeing into the countryside.
The country's security forces were uncovering additional clues and searching for more suspects, he said, adding that the arrests were proof of a conspiracy against his government involving Cuban and Venezuelan exiles in Florida and neighbouring Colombia.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1213445,00.html

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Maybe you can get someone to explain what it means to you. Most DU'ers who keep up on Latin American events heard about this long ago, and understood immediately why Venezuela would decide to increase border patrols.

[Selatius]

8. This is the reason why Chavez put more troops on the Colombian border

Precisely to keep out the paramilitaries from encroaching on Venezuelan territory.

[EFerrari]

6. OAS? Is that the Organization of American Sycophants

or am I confusing them with some other sketch group?

[Peace Patriot]

7. The Colonialists carved up Latin America into small exploitable countries

just like they carved up Africa and the Middle East. The great revolutionary hero Simon Bolivar wanted the South American states to unite, and form a stronger entity to fight off colonial and other outside financial/military interests--especially the Bolivia-Venezuela-Peru region. That is the revolutionary history that Chavez is promoting: regional strength against global corporate predators/US/Bush. Peruvians have much more in common with Venezuelans and Bolivians than they do with Texas oil billionaire thieves and mass murderers. Bush and Global Corporate Predators are the ones who have interfered, with bribes and promises. Garcia is a very corrupt Leftist/Centrist, who will drive Peru into financial ruin, like Argentina. The Left will eventually win in Peru, but will have a much bigger mess to clean up, after another term of Garcia playing free trade and national debt games. The true Left candidate, Ollanta Humala, came out of nowhere to win a 30% vote in the first round of the election, winning a runoff with Garcia, and eliminating the rightwing candidate. Humala surprised everybody. The trend in Latin America is overwhelmingly to toward a mixed socialist economy and national/regional self-determination. After the Bushites and global corporate predators are finished with Peru, the true Left will come back and wipe out corrupt colluders like Garcia.

Robert "death squad" Zoelleck may chuckle his evil Bush chuckle all he wants, over their dear buddy Garcia's 55% win over unknown Humala's 45%, but you can be certain they are gnashing their teeth over the rise of the principled, good government Left all over Latin America, and live every day of their lives in stark fear of transparent elections, there or here.

The South Americans will have the last laugh.

"The time of the people has come." --Evo Morales (Bolivia)