Reply #30: Where in your article is there any indication Hugo Chavez killed anyone?

[Judi Lynn]

The coup against Carlos Andres Perez was led against a President who HAD HIS TROOPS FIRE INTO A CROWD OF VENEZUELAN CITIZENS.

Regarding anything your reference Jose Vivanco could offer in his appraisal of Latin American events, he is deeply disregarded for his flagrant puppetship to American interests, including Uribe. He is notoriously anti-left-wing policy in Latin America. He's definitely in the pocket of right-wing power-hungry cretins.

But who is Jose Miguel Vivanco?

What is Human Rights Watch?

What are their roles?

What do they have to do with Venezuela?

Maybe some readers can help out here – because I have found some information which I cannot decipher (mentioned later below regarding Jose Miguel Vivanco).

According to www.freerepublic.com/forum/a392db7a801ea.htm a Counter Punch article dated May 25, 2000 …”Jose Miguel Vivanco, a Chilean-born, Harvard-educated lawyer who heads Human Rights Watch Americas””

The article goes on to say: “The fact that Human Rights Watch should lend itself vigorously to the effort to push the military aid package (for the Colombian “drug‰ wars) through Congress is bad enough –”

“…People like Vivanco and unscrupulous outfits like Human Rights Watch will testify glowingly to great progress in imparting respect for human rights in the Colombian police and military. The killings of labor organizers, peasant leaders, church workers and any other threat to the right wing drug lords in Colombia will go on, done by the paramilitary death squads supervised by the army and the drug lords (very often identical) with extra direction from the CIA.”
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http://www.williambowles.info/venezuela/ven_hrw.html

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In reference to your support of _Bush's giving U.S. taxpayers' money to Venezuelan opposition groups in order to destabilize the Venzuelan government:

As court proceedings begin this month against four Venezuelans from an election campaign group that accepted donations from a foreign government - something that is indisputably a federal crime under both U.S. and Venezuelan law - it's no surprise that members of the Bush administration in Washington cry that the sky is falling.

After all, it's their money (well, on second thought, it is U.S. taxpayers' money) that is at the root of the alleged criminal enterprise. And the upcoming trial of accused Venezuelan electoral delinquents, held in the public light of day, will shine yet more sunlight upon Washington's secret recipes for meddling in the elections of other nations.

On Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey and Jose Vivanco of Human Rights Watch - thirteen blocks from the White House and on the same day - chirped in harmony to spin this story as a case of "persecution" against "legitimate electoral activities."

But as last year's presidential campaign in the United States revealed, Yankee political parties and candidates are prohibited from accepting foreign contributions from any source, especially from other governments. As John Kerry found out the hard way, the corrupting practices that Bush and Vivanco condone in Venezuela are strictly verboten in the United States…
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/071205_world_stories.shtml