Threats to Hugo Chavez

While all eyes are on Iraq, Iran, and Korea, the bushistas are quietly making plans to re-establish domination in South America, and Latin America. They have already openly warned Nicaragua about grave consequences if the people should decide to elect a candidate that Washington doesn’t want.

In Venezuela, the corporatistas are deeply involved in the ongoing coup attempt that began at the time of Chavez’s election, and includes the 2002 coup that briefly deposed Mr Chavez.

As we have seen in Iraq, Palestine, and even our own country, little georgie doesn’t care what anybody thinks. What he wants, is what he wants, like a little kid.

Threats to Hugo Chavez As Venezuela's December Presidential Election Approaches
by Stephen Lendman
11/1/06

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There was also evidence uncovered at the time that violence was planned for around the time of the election to create unrest and further delegitimate the results. This is how an oligarchy puppet regime in the wings allied with the power structure in Washington operates. They have no respect for the law or norms of conduct and will use any means including murder to try to regain the power they lost to Hugo Chavez democratically. There's no doubt schemes have already been cooked up quietly that will be sprung between now and the election period. Already on September 2, Caracas Diario Vea reported it learned about a plot involving the right wing opposition. It's called Plan Alcatraz and is aimed at making unacceptable demands on the National Electoral Council (CNE) sure to be rejected so as to allege fraud and then organize street actions in protest including occupying CNE offices. Manuel Rosales is part of the scheme to lead the protests but he'd have to withdraw from the race to do it, which so far he's unwilling to do. He has been willing to consult with representatives of the Bush administration and met with them recently on a trip he made to south Florida where he reportedly met with the president's brother, Governor Jeb Bush.
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In the lead-up to whatever is planned, the Bush administration is relying on the usual kind of covert mischief from the CIA that specializes in it. It's been at it all over the world for nearly 50 years and in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez was first elected. Author and international human rights attorney Eva Golinger obtained top-secret CIA documents through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests showing the Agency had prior knowledge and was complicit in the two-day 2002 aborted coup attempt to unseat President Chavez and that the Bush administration provided over $30 million in funding aid to opposition groups to help do it.
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