[NYTr] Is another US backed coup brewing in Venezuela?

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

sent by Steven L. Robinson

Axis of Logic - Nov 10, 2007
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_25479.shtml


[Editor's Note: My two correspondents in Venezuela provided me with the
following report based upon their meetings with government officials
earlier today. -LMB ]

BREAKING! FASCIST CONSPIRACY, FUELED BY U.S. TAX DOLLARS TO LAUNCH 
2ND COUP D'ETAT in THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

By Arturo Rosales in Valencia and Ramon Santiago in Maracay.

14 DEPUTIES IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COME OUT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT

14 deputies are expected to go to the opposition side in the National
Assembly between now and the December 2nd National Referendum to
approve the constitutional reforms.

3 LEADERS, FORMERLY LOYAL TO CHAVEZ COME OUT AGAINST HIM

After ex-General and former Defemse Minister, Raul Baduel came out
against the constitutional reforms earlier this week, the Attorney
General, Isaias Rodriguez and Comptroller General of the Republic,
Cloudosbaldo Russian are expected to publicly pronounce their
opposition to the Constitutional Reform proposals. Such traitorous
actions will weaken the cohesive authority of the State and hence
Central Government.

VENEZUELAN MILITARY PENETRATED

Raul Isaias Baduel, former Four Star General and Minister of Defense
shocked the population when he came out against constitutional reforms
last Monday, November 5, and is now working hand-in-glove with Podemos
(political party now firmly in the opposition camp). Baduel has now
joined forces with Ismael Garcia (General Secretary of Podemos) who
consistently opposed the constitutional reforms alleging that they
would constitute a single political line of thought in Venezuela. His
position clashes with the pluralistic, democratic Articles 1 and 2 of
the 1999 Constitution, so prized by the people. Plans have already been
laid to launch candidates for mayors and governors in the 2008 local
elections. This would be the new opposition to Chavez were it to
succeed.

The 4th Armed Division in Maracay, formerly under of the command of
Baduel is said to be loyal to him. Moreover, the current minister of
Defense, Gustavo Briceno Rangel has been a close personal friend of
Baduel for 30 years just as Baduel has been a close personal friend of
President Chavez for the same number of years. In a seminar with oil
workers in 2003, Baduel stated that he had been offered $1 billion to
instrument the overthrow of Chavez and he stated that he turned it down
out of loyalty to the Bolivarian project. Is this now about money or
power? Earlier this week, in a public broadcast on VTV, Chavez stated,
"Baduel is a traidor not only to Chavez - but to the people of
Venezuela". In massive marches supporting Chavez this week, signs
appeared everywhere declaring "Baduel - Traidor a la Revolucion!"

Baduel took an oath with President Chavez on December 17, 1982 in
Maracay to create a Bolivarian Republic and overthrow the corrupt
oligarch system which kept 80 % of Venezuelans in poverty for 40 years.
Baduel also stood by Chavez and saved the day during the 2002 coup
attempt. This is the first hard evidence that the US-backed opposition
may have penetrated the existing standing Army after the 2003
non-violent purge of the Venezuelan Armed Forces by former Defense
Minister, Humberto Prieto. How did they do it? We suggest money and the
desire for power now that petroleum has almost reached $100-barrel.

Millions of dollars of US taxpayer money is being used through the
auspices of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED-Washington) to
buy the loyalty and consciences of all these men. In addition, a
pronouncement by at least one high-ranking active military officer
against the constitutional reform and against Chavez personally is
expected in coming days.

SPAWNED IN JOINT MEETINGS BETWEEN THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT AND
VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION IN PRAGUE, the CZECH REPUBLIC.

This is all U.S.-planned and supported following the meeting in Prague
when Paul Wolfowitz, Madeleine Albright and Venezuelan opposition
leader, Humberto Celli from the discredited Democratic Action Party
(AD) met earlier this month.

MONEY DOESN'T SPEAK - IT SWEARS - BOB DYLAN

In addition to these dramatic findings, Carabobo State Governor Luis
Felipe Acosta Carlez, one of the heroes in helping to break the
opposition-inspired food shortages of economic sabotage of 2002-2003,
has been bought off by NED funds in Washington and is expected to
resign as governor after making a deal with rancid oligarchy in
Valencia.

The Washington-spawned plan is also bent on blocking major routes to
cut off distribution of food supplies in order to bring the population
to its knees and with the hope they will demand Chavez' resignation.

URIBE'S PARAMILTARY SPAWN PLANTED IN VENEZUELA?

The plan also includes the use of Colombian paramilitary cells in
Venezuela to arbitrarily kill innocent civilians and create chaos which
they have been doing for the past month vis-B-vis the bourgeois student
protests.

This plan involves another economic sabotage - the closing of factories
to lock out workers - just as they did in the national managers' strike
in 2002-2003.

THE GROUNDWORK IS BEING LAID

The private media (mainly Globovision) is up to its neck in this
conspiracy against the legally and constitutionally-elected government.
Reruns of Baduel's speech and Ismael Garcia's interventions in the
National Assembly plus raising the profile of Israel Rodriguez are
currently being shown over and over again. We are certain that this is
a matter of laying the groundwork for an attempt to overthrow the
government. This groundwork is being laid to give media credibility to
these men. The opposition believes that the people in the barrios will
abandon Chavez for a new government under the leadership of traidores
like Baduel, Garcia and Rodriguez. Also, they hope that the people will
be intimidated to believe "there is no other way". This is directly out
of the CIA handbook.

On a regional level, some who have claimed to be die-hard Chavez
supporters have also been bought off to facilitate chaos on a local
level and to disarticulate the influence of Central Government in
cities and towns in all 24 Venezuelan States.

SOURCES

This information came from Arturo Rosales and Ramon Santiago directly
from Venezuelan military intelligence. This information has been known
for at least 3 weeks by the government. Proof: The same sources knew
that Former Minister of Defense Raul Baduel would come out against the
reforms before he made is speech on Monday, November 5. Therefore,
while we are not making any hard predictions, our best intelligence
indicates that some or all of the destabilizing actions described above
will take place within the next few days or weeks.

Once again the opposition plans do not take into account the political
awareness of the people ("el pueblo"). This was the major error of the
opposition in the April, 2002 coup attempt and the economic oil
sabotage of 2002-2003.

This week, Chavez held 3 pro-reform rallies trans-Venezuela before
going to Chile, in Carabobo, Maracay and Charallave and hundreds of
thousands of people poured into the street to see and support their
beloved president. Chavez obviously knows about the
opposition/Washington plan and these mega marches were designed to
serve as a warning to the Venezuelan, undemocratic bourgeoisie.

There is a very real possibility that a "flash-point" will occur, in the
midst of these actions or to launch this plan such as hasn't been seen
since the April 11, 2002 coup attempt, when President Chavez was
kidnapped by the US-backed coupsters. In world history, there has been
no humanistic Head of State comparable to him. Period!

The fact that Chavez is fully aware that this mega-conspiracy is not an
objection to the constitutional reforms, but in reality, is another
attempt to eliminate a democratically-elected Head of State. His
awareness tells us that element of surprise has already been defused
and his administration has plans in place to neutralize the actions of
the US fascist opposition.

THE RISKS FOR THE OPPOSITION

The former Chavez supporters, bought off with millions of dollars by
NED do not realize the risks they are incurring. If these plans go
forward, "el pueblo" may not respond as peacefully as they did in the
2002 coup-attempt when Chavez told them to go back to their homes and
be calm. Caveat Emptor! (Let the buyer beware!).

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