Controversy Erupts Anew Over Investigation of Venezuelan Prosecutor’s 2004 Murder

[JohnnyCougar]

This is a good article for some background on the political situation in Venezuela. All those who still think Venezuela is a "dictatorship" -- as well as all you curious and rational-minded people out there -- would greatly benefit from reading this. It covers the terrorism, links to the CIA, links to the Colombian government, and the ongoing propaganda of the Venezuelan right wing that Chavez is constantly fighting.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3346

Caracas, April 11, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Controversy erupted this week surrounding the investigation into the car-bomb assassination of Venezuelan State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson on November 18, 2004, after a key prosecution witness, Giovanni Vasquez De Armas recanted his initial testimony. Vasquez’s testimony helped convict three men in 2005 for carrying out the murder and implicated a number of radical government opponents as the masterminds behind the crime.

Widely perceived as one of Venezuela’s best and brightest attorneys, Anderson, 38, was investigating the role of key opposition figures in the April 2002 military coup, which briefly ousted Chavez from office, when he was assassinated. His brief included up to 400 people who had signed the illegal decree by which Chamber of Commerce (FEDECAMARAS) president Pedro Carmona abolished the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the National Assembly and fired the Ombudsman, the Attorney General, as self-declared interim President during the coup.

The attorney was assassinated in Los Chaguaramos in Caracas, while driving home from the college where he was taking post-graduate classes. He was killed by a C-4 plastic explosive placed on the frame under the driver's seat of his Toyota SUV, apparently detonated by remote control. His murder shocked Venezuelan public opinion across the political spectrum.

Vasquez, a member of Colombia's right wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), initially testified that he had been in charge of logistics for the plot to kill Anderson, including the transfer 12kg of C-4 explosives into Venezuela, after Venezuelan opposition figures had asked his organization for operational assistance. Vasquez’s testimony also implicated FBI and CIA agents as being complicit in Anderson’s murder.

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[JohnnyCougar]

1. Kick.

Nobody's interested in this?

Well I thought it was fascinating and tragic at the same time.

[ipaint]

2. Thank you

I don't post much but I read everything about venezuela that you and a couple other posters (Judi Lynn, Peace Patriot, Warren Pease) write and link to. The whole movement gives me hope.

[Judi Lynn]

3. So glad to see this. Will read it after getting some sleep. It's really twisted, and ugly, isn't it?

I read about the witness earlier, and I'm looking foward to learning more about this. Thank you so much.

Would like to say "hi" to "ipaint," who's watching these things with us, and "welcome to D.U., ipaint!" :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

[JohnnyCougar]

4. It's just plain sad.

The CIA is out of control.