(fwd) CIA Agent Tells of US Plans for Chavez's Assassination in Venezuela

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demoratically

elected popular leaders... Wait! Does Canada have oil? And

do they have

free health care too? Canooks would do well to prepare for

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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1549

 

Former CIA Agent Affirms Possibility of Chavezs

Assassination in Venezuela

 

By: Gregory Wilpert Venezuelanalysis.com

 

Former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez talked about Venezuela on

the talk show

" Maria Elvira Confronta. "

Credit: Channel 22, Miami

 

Caracas, Venezuela, March 15, 2005In an interview on Miamis

Spanish-language channel 22, the former CIA agent Felix

Rodriguez said

that the U.S. government has plans to bring about a change

in Venezuela.

When pressed as to what type of plans these might be,

Rodriguez responded

that the Bush administration could do it with a military

strike, with a

plane.

 

The former CIA agents comments were made last week, on

Thursday, during

the talk show of a well-known supporter of the anti-Castro

movement, Maria

Elvira Salazar. Rodriguez affirmed during the program,

According to

information I have about what is happening in Venezuela, it

is possible

that at some moment they [the Bush administration] will see

itself

obliged, for national security reasons and because of

problems they have

in Colombia, to implement a series of measures that will

bring about a

change in Venezuela.

 

The moderator, not satisfied with his vague answer, asked

Rodriguez what

kind of measures these might be and he responded, They

could be economic

measures and at some point they could be military measures.

He then added,

If at some point they are going to do it, they will do it

openly. As an

example, Rodriguez gave the Reagan administrations strike

against Khadafi,

whose residence was bombed and whose adoptive daughter was

killed in the

process.

 

Felix Rodriguez is presumed to have been one of the CIA

agents who

captured Ernesto Ch Guevara in Bolivia and who was involved

in his

assassination in 1962.

 

For the past several weeks, President Chavez has been

saying that he has

evidence that the Bush administration is planning his

assassination. Bush

spokespersons, such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,

have dismissed

the charge, calling it absurd. Chavez and officials from

his government,

however, have insisted that they have intelligence

information about a

possible assassination, but that they cannot reveal their

sources, as this

would ruin their investigations.

 

Venezuelas Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez has also pointed

out that the

U.S. denied for a long time its involvement in the

overthrow of the

governments of Chile in 1973 or of Guatemala in 1954, but

that their

involvement was eventually proven.

 

Yesterday, the British newspaper Financial Times reported

that, " Senior US

administration officials are working on a policy to

'contain' President

Hugo Chavez. " the report went on to say, " A strategy aimed

at fencing in

the Chvez government is being prepared at the behest of

President George

W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state,

senior US officials

say. "

 

The Financial Times quoted Roger Pardo-Maurer, deputy

assistant secretary

for western hemisphere affairs, as saying that, " Chavez is

a problem

because he is clearly using his oil money and influence to

introduce his

conflictive style into the politics of other countries. "

 

Roger Pardo-Mauro became known during the Reagan

administration's

Iran-Contra scandal, when he was a spokesperson for the

Nicaraguan

Contras. He is also said to have met with Venezuela's top

general, Lucas

Rincon Romero, in the weeks prior to the April 2002 coup.

 

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=26654

 

Chavez Frias says he will use oil as weapon for planetary

equality

Published: Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Bylined to: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has had more harsh

words for the

USA before leaving India for Qatar.

 

Chavez Frias says he will use oil as a weapon in the fight

for planetary

equality.

 

" The USA wants to keep our oil reserves for itself but we

want to share

them around. "

 

In a bullish mood, Chavez Frias also warned that any

invasion on the part

of that country to oust him could jeopardize oil supplies

and raise prices

to $100 a barrel.

 

The President says the USA could accuse Venezuela of

possessing weapons of

mass destruction (WMD) but the only WMD in Venezuela are

hunger and

poverty.

 

" We don't want to see any nation with those kind of WMD,

that is why we

will use oil as a weapon on behalf of equality ... we don't

want to use

oil to give more power to nations just because they are

powerful. "

 

Indian business sectors have been invited to visit

Venezuela to explore

trade possibilities.

 

During the last day of his visit, the Venezuelan President

traveled to

Bangalore to visit the Biocon Biotechnology Co. and the

Infosys Industry

whose president Narayana NR Murthy commented that Chavez

Frias was

impressed by the company's software program efficiency.

 

One of the Venezuelan government's plan is to install a

free software

system in all the country's Ministries and public offices.

 

Afterwards, Chavez Frias attended an Indian-Venezuelan

business meeting.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-03-16-venezuela-chavez_x.htm

 

Posted 3/16/2005 5:26 PM

Chavez followers get paramilitary training

 

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Chanting " fatherland or death, "

dozens of

President Hugo Chavez's supporters lined up in formation,

vowing to defend

the country if the United States tries to invade. Led by an

army

reservist, the volunteers in black caps said their numbers

would swell in

the coming months.

 

The start of training for " Popular Defense Units " marks a

more

confrontational stage in U.S.-Venezuelan relations.

 

Chavez is tightening his personal security, accusing

Washington of backing

a plot to assassinate him. While U.S. officials seek to

isolate a leader

who has become a symbol of anti-American sentiment in Latin

America,

Chavez is warning he will cut off oil exports to the United

States if it

supports any attempt to overthrow him.

 

The socialist leader called last month for creation of

civilian groups to

help defend Venezuela if necessary; in one poor Caracas

neighborhood,

about 120 supporters began military-style drills last month

even though

they have not been issued weapons.

 

" If an invasion comes, we know what we're going to do, "

said Manuel Mayan,

36, saluting during training in a parking lot Tuesday

night, the first

attended by international journalists.

 

Other similar units will begin training soon in at least

two nearby

neighborhoods, said Sgt. 2nd Class Ricardo Nahmens.

 

Some of the men and women — street cleaners, retired

teachers and the

unemployed — wore military patches on their sleeves, even

though they are

civilians and they have yet to obtain formal recognition

from the

government. They consider themselves part of the army

reserve forces.

 

" Reserve! The guarantee of national defense and security! "

they chanted,

wearing black caps and standing at attention.

 

Organizer Rafael Cabrices said the group eventually plans

to train with

weapons to prepare " to defend the fatherland. " But Interior

Minister Jesse

Chacon said only the military is authorized to carry out

armed training

and that officials would investigate the group's

activities.

 

The training is only one sign of growing tensions between

Chavez and U.S.

officials, who have traded increasingly sharp accusations.

 

State TV shows video of U.S. officials criticizing Chavez,

while playing

the " Star Wars " theme music for the " evil empire. " Many

observers say a

U.S. invasion is highly unlikely, but Chavez's warnings

have struck a

chord on the streets of the capital, where graffiti now

declares: " If they

kill Chavez, he will return as millions. "

 

Chavez has said his socialist " revolution " for the poor is

by nature

" anti-imperialist, " claiming that has angered the United

States. Chavez, a

former army paratroop commander who is up for re-election

next year, has

said U.S. plans to support the Venezuelan opposition are an

" obscene

interference. "

 

The president has been busy signing oil deals with

countries from China to

India. Analysts suggest he is lining up alternative allies

through oil

deals to diminish Venezuela's reliance on the United

States, its top oil

buyer.

 

" Venezuela will now help the Southern Hemisphere countries

with its oil

more than it has helped the United States, " Chavez said in

India this

month.

 

" Chavez has already spent years weaving a clever and

intelligent network

of interests in the Americas and the rest of the world to

accept this

challenge, " lawyer Italo Luongo Blohm wrote Wednesday in

the Venezuelan

newspaper El Universal. " Chavez is preparing for a

conflict. "

 

Information Minister Andres Izarra denied such an agenda,

telling

reporters Chavez's government " wants to re-establish the

best relations

with the United States " and hopes there is " a change in

policy that is

aimed at strengthening, normalizing relations with

Venezuela. "

 

It remains unclear how the tensions could affect the oil

market. Venezuela

is the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil to the United

States, and top

Venezuelan officials have pledged to continue supplying the

rising U.S.

demand.

 

U.S. diplomats say they are concerned about Venezuelan

democracy, freedom

of the press, Chavez's stance toward leftist Colombian

rebels and moves to

buy 10 helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles from

Russia.

 

Every critical statement by officials of the United States

— which Chavez

calls " the empire " — has drawn a sharp Venezuelan response.

 

" Whoever throws a stone at us, we will throw a stone back, "

Chavez said

Sunday. " We will not keep quiet like before, and even less

with the

Empire. "

 

Chavez last month accused President Bush of backing a plot

to kill him,

saying " If anything happens to me, forget about Venezuelan

oil, Mr. Bush. "

 

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the accusations

" ludicrous " and

also denied Chavez's claim of U.S. involvement in a

short-lived coup

against him in 2002.

 

Izarra said Tuesday that Venezuela's presidential guard had

boosted

security to protect Chavez in response to an assassination

plot.

 

Officials provided few details of the plot, but have

previously demanded

the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan

" terrorists " in

Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez. Izarra

said Venezuela

is considering legal options after a woman this week called

for Chavez's

assassination on a Miami television program.

 

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday that

U.S. concerns

about Chavez's government are " shared by many in the

region " — which

Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel quickly

contested.

 

" The only one that is concerned is the government in

Washington, " Rangel

said.

 

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Spreading Bush brand of de-mocracy via assassination of demoratically

elected popular leaders... Wait! Does Canada have oil? And do they have

free health care too? Canooks would do well to prepare for a new kind

of democracy! Their OIL belongs to US! No Free Health Care!

 

- C.B.

-------

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1549

 

Former CIA Agent Affirms Possibility of Chavezs Assassination in Venezuela

 

By: Gregory Wilpert Venezuelanalysis.com

 

Former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez talked about Venezuela on the talk show

" Maria Elvira Confronta. "

Credit: Channel 22, Miami

 

Caracas, Venezuela, March 15, 2005In an interview on Miamis

Spanish-language channel 22, the former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez said

that the U.S. government has plans to bring about a change in Venezuela.

When pressed as to what type of plans these might be, Rodriguez responded

that the Bush administration could do it with a military strike, with a

plane.

 

The former CIA agents comments were made last week, on Thursday, during

the talk show of a well-known supporter of the anti-Castro movement, Maria

Elvira Salazar. Rodriguez affirmed during the program, According to

information I have about what is happening in Venezuela, it is possible

that at some moment they [the Bush administration] will see itself

obliged, for national security reasons and because of problems they have

in Colombia, to implement a series of measures that will bring about a

change in Venezuela.

 

The moderator, not satisfied with his vague answer, asked Rodriguez what

kind of measures these might be and he responded, They could be economic

measures and at some point they could be military measures. He then added,

If at some point they are going to do it, they will do it openly. As an

example, Rodriguez gave the Reagan administrations strike against Khadafi,

whose residence was bombed and whose adoptive daughter was killed in the

process.

 

Felix Rodriguez is presumed to have been one of the CIA agents who

captured Ernesto Ch Guevara in Bolivia and who was involved in his

assassination in 1962.

 

For the past several weeks, President Chavez has been saying that he has

evidence that the Bush administration is planning his assassination. Bush

spokespersons, such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have dismissed

the charge, calling it absurd. Chavez and officials from his government,

however, have insisted that they have intelligence information about a

possible assassination, but that they cannot reveal their sources, as this

would ruin their investigations.

 

Venezuelas Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez has also pointed out that the

U.S. denied for a long time its involvement in the overthrow of the

governments of Chile in 1973 or of Guatemala in 1954, but that their

involvement was eventually proven.

 

Yesterday, the British newspaper Financial Times reported that, " Senior US

administration officials are working on a policy to 'contain' President

Hugo Chavez. " the report went on to say, " A strategy aimed at fencing in

the Chvez government is being prepared at the behest of President George

W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, senior US officials

say. "

 

The Financial Times quoted Roger Pardo-Maurer, deputy assistant secretary

for western hemisphere affairs, as saying that, " Chavez is a problem

because he is clearly using his oil money and influence to introduce his

conflictive style into the politics of other countries. "

 

Roger Pardo-Mauro became known during the Reagan administration's

Iran-Contra scandal, when he was a spokesperson for the Nicaraguan

Contras. He is also said to have met with Venezuela's top general, Lucas

Rincon Romero, in the weeks prior to the April 2002 coup.

 

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=26654

 

Chavez Frias says he will use oil as weapon for planetary equality

Published: Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Bylined to: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has had more harsh words for the

USA before leaving India for Qatar.

 

Chavez Frias says he will use oil as a weapon in the fight for planetary

equality.

 

" The USA wants to keep our oil reserves for itself but we want to share

them around. "

 

In a bullish mood, Chavez Frias also warned that any invasion on the part

of that country to oust him could jeopardize oil supplies and raise prices

to $100 a barrel.

 

The President says the USA could accuse Venezuela of possessing weapons of

mass destruction (WMD) but the only WMD in Venezuela are hunger and

poverty.

 

" We don't want to see any nation with those kind of WMD, that is why we

will use oil as a weapon on behalf of equality ... we don't want to use

oil to give more power to nations just because they are powerful. "

 

Indian business sectors have been invited to visit Venezuela to explore

trade possibilities.

 

During the last day of his visit, the Venezuelan President traveled to

Bangalore to visit the Biocon Biotechnology Co. and the Infosys Industry

whose president Narayana NR Murthy commented that Chavez Frias was

impressed by the company's software program efficiency.

 

One of the Venezuelan government's plan is to install a free software

system in all the country's Ministries and public offices.

 

Afterwards, Chavez Frias attended an Indian-Venezuelan business meeting.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-03-16-venezuela-chavez_x.htm

 

Posted 3/16/2005 5:26 PM

Chavez followers get paramilitary training

 

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Chanting " fatherland or death, " dozens of

President Hugo Chavez's supporters lined up in formation, vowing to defend

the country if the United States tries to invade. Led by an army

reservist, the volunteers in black caps said their numbers would swell in

the coming months.

 

The start of training for " Popular Defense Units " marks a more

confrontational stage in U.S.-Venezuelan relations.

 

Chavez is tightening his personal security, accusing Washington of backing

a plot to assassinate him. While U.S. officials seek to isolate a leader

who has become a symbol of anti-American sentiment in Latin America,

Chavez is warning he will cut off oil exports to the United States if it

supports any attempt to overthrow him.

 

The socialist leader called last month for creation of civilian groups to

help defend Venezuela if necessary; in one poor Caracas neighborhood,

about 120 supporters began military-style drills last month even though

they have not been issued weapons.

 

" If an invasion comes, we know what we're going to do, " said Manuel Mayan,

36, saluting during training in a parking lot Tuesday night, the first

attended by international journalists.

 

Other similar units will begin training soon in at least two nearby

neighborhoods, said Sgt. 2nd Class Ricardo Nahmens.

 

Some of the men and women — street cleaners, retired teachers and the

unemployed — wore military patches on their sleeves, even though they are

civilians and they have yet to obtain formal recognition from the

government. They consider themselves part of the army reserve forces.

 

" Reserve! The guarantee of national defense and security! " they chanted,

wearing black caps and standing at attention.

 

Organizer Rafael Cabrices said the group eventually plans to train with

weapons to prepare " to defend the fatherland. " But Interior Minister Jesse

Chacon said only the military is authorized to carry out armed training

and that officials would investigate the group's activities.

 

The training is only one sign of growing tensions between Chavez and U.S.

officials, who have traded increasingly sharp accusations.

 

State TV shows video of U.S. officials criticizing Chavez, while playing

the " Star Wars " theme music for the " evil empire. " Many observers say a

U.S. invasion is highly unlikely, but Chavez's warnings have struck a

chord on the streets of the capital, where graffiti now declares: " If they

kill Chavez, he will return as millions. "

 

Chavez has said his socialist " revolution " for the poor is by nature

" anti-imperialist, " claiming that has angered the United States. Chavez, a

former army paratroop commander who is up for re-election next year, has

said U.S. plans to support the Venezuelan opposition are an " obscene

interference. "

 

The president has been busy signing oil deals with countries from China to

India. Analysts suggest he is lining up alternative allies through oil

deals to diminish Venezuela's reliance on the United States, its top oil

buyer.

 

" Venezuela will now help the Southern Hemisphere countries with its oil

more than it has helped the United States, " Chavez said in India this

month.

 

" Chavez has already spent years weaving a clever and intelligent network

of interests in the Americas and the rest of the world to accept this

challenge, " lawyer Italo Luongo Blohm wrote Wednesday in the Venezuelan

newspaper El Universal. " Chavez is preparing for a conflict. "

 

Information Minister Andres Izarra denied such an agenda, telling

reporters Chavez's government " wants to re-establish the best relations

with the United States " and hopes there is " a change in policy that is

aimed at strengthening, normalizing relations with Venezuela. "

 

It remains unclear how the tensions could affect the oil market. Venezuela

is the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil to the United States, and top

Venezuelan officials have pledged to continue supplying the rising U.S.

demand.

 

U.S. diplomats say they are concerned about Venezuelan democracy, freedom

of the press, Chavez's stance toward leftist Colombian rebels and moves to

buy 10 helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles from Russia.

 

Every critical statement by officials of the United States — which Chavez

calls " the empire " — has drawn a sharp Venezuelan response.

 

" Whoever throws a stone at us, we will throw a stone back, " Chavez said

Sunday. " We will not keep quiet like before, and even less with the

Empire. "

 

Chavez last month accused President Bush of backing a plot to kill him,

saying " If anything happens to me, forget about Venezuelan oil, Mr. Bush. "

 

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the accusations " ludicrous " and

also denied Chavez's claim of U.S. involvement in a short-lived coup

against him in 2002.

 

Izarra said Tuesday that Venezuela's presidential guard had boosted

security to protect Chavez in response to an assassination plot.

 

Officials provided few details of the plot, but have previously demanded

the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan " terrorists " in

Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez. Izarra said Venezuela

is considering legal options after a woman this week called for Chavez's

assassination on a Miami television program.

 

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday that U.S. concerns

about Chavez's government are " shared by many in the region " — which

Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel quickly contested.

 

" The only one that is concerned is the government in Washington, " Rangel

said.

 

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.