Chávez Says Military to Oppose Destabilization Attempts During Venezuelan Elections

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Wow, what was actually said is different from the way Reuters reported on it! Gee, imagine that!

While campaigning in support of candidates for governor and mayor from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has threatened to use military force in several states if opposition leaders attempt to sabotage the political process during or after the November 23rd elections.

At a recent campaign rally in the state of Carabobo, Chávez said that if opposition mayors and governors are elected in and around Caracas, their efforts to sabotage the "Bolivarian Revolution" could make next year "a year of war," in which case he would deploy tanks to maintain control of the coastal state.

Chávez also said he would send the military to the western state of Zulia, where former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales is running for mayor of the state capital, Maracaibo, if destabilization occurs there. According to Chávez, opposition leaders in Zulia are planning to negate the results of the election and launch violent street protests if PSUV candidates win.

Opposition groups have launched violent street protests against the government in the run up to every election over the past four years, in all but one of which the pro-Chávez candidates have emerged victorious. Just the 2006 presidential elections, thousands of black T-shirts with the word "FRAUD" in white letters had already been printed and distributed to opposition groups.

In September, a plot by retired military officers to assassinate Chávez and overthrow the government was foiled, further intensifying the current election cycle.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3945">Venezuela Analysis - read more

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1. Comparing the Reuters 'story'...

Reuters: Chavez Mentions Tanks if Ally loses Venezuela vote

Truth: Chávez Says Military to Oppose Destabilization Attempts During Venezuelan Elections

So, opposing destabilization attempts somehow got twisted into "if his ally loses". And some here insist on trusting Reuters to the very end!

[EFerrari]

2. People fall for this bs every time. Thanks for this article!

[Billy Burnett]

5. Got to love the brain trusts on the other "tanks" thread.

Hoo boy. You betcha. :rofl:

I waded into the top several posts and I thought for a second that I had clicked on a FR thread. :wow:

[Judi Lynn]

3. Pathetic, isn't it? It's unfortunate some people don't make it a practice to pay attention

well enough to have a clear view of things.

You remember the violent demonstration the opposition employs, called "guarimba," apparently runs all the way up to, and including the "guarimba" advocate, Cuban Venezuelan Roberto Alonso's housing and arming over 100 Colombian paras near his ranch, "Daktari," outside Caracas, which, when they were arrested after living there for over 3 months, they testified was the preliminary stage of their plan to overthrow the government, force their way into Miraflores, and kill Chavez, after breaking into a National Guard armory and stealing enough weapons for 1,500 men.

This is on record, in testimony from the Colombian men captured and arrested, and imprisoned who revealed they were hired and organized by Venezuelan right-wing opposition.

(Roberto Alonso is directly connected to the violent reactionary Cuban "exiles" in South Florida who participated in innumerable acts of violence all over the world, including the assassination teams in Operation Condor, killing leftists all over Latin America, even car bombing Chilean leftist diplomat and his American assistant, on the streets of Washington, D.C. in broad daylight, and deep involvement in Iran/Contra. Alonso is the leading proponent of "guarimba.")

Who can forget the vicious violence of the opposition in 2002, when they started dragging their ####ing industrial sized slingshots to "demonstrations" and killed a man with a marble fired into his brain?

That's where something far nastier developes where "freedom of speech" used to be!



Opposition's version of "free speech" during demonstration.

It's so sad when clearly underinformed people enter discussion here among people who've been following Latin America policy for years and years at D.U., and insist others attend them and respond to their hopelessly ignorant gibberish.

They need to do as we all have done ourselves, in order to know anything: shut the #### up and start reading, and read until they know what the #### they're attempting to discuss. You can't get there from a position of total ignorance and belligerance.

They have to disengage their mouths first, and start doing their homework.

Thanks for the article. I'll be back to read it later today, when I have some quiet time.

[Judi Lynn]

4. I'd be willing to bet the violent opposition to the democratically elected government

of Venezuela is going to go through rapid change as soon as the sponsor of the oligarchy's violent, murderous opposition leaves Washington, D.C., and our require-by-law tax dollars are more likely going to funneled into honorable causes.

Thanks for the article.

[Bacchus39]

6. wow, what Chavez actually said was different from what Venanalisys reports

how about that?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooVlAa3Y53s&feature=channel