Is Washington planning a bloodbath in Caracas?

[donsu]

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=7579


The Venezuelan government headed by President Hugo Chavez repeatedly accused the US government of planning a “new aggression” against Venezuela, including a plot to assassinate Chavez, despite pro-Chavez forces winning nine national elections in six years. Caracas claims to have information of an assassination plot to be carried out “within 100 days” against Chavez, although the government has refused to reveal its sources.*

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A March 17 /Washington Post/ article, entitled “Anti-Bush fears assassination”, reported that the previous week “former CIA operative and prominent Bush supporter” Rodriguez, when asked by his interviewer about the assassination plot accusations, stated ‘‘that he had information about the administration's plans to 'bring about a change' in Venezuela, possibly through 'military measures’”.

Rodriguez went as far as to set out possible scenarios. He said that an air-strike aiming to kill Chavez was one possibility, pointing to the bombing raid then US President Ronald Reagan ordered in 1986 to kill Libyan President Muammer Qadhafi (Qadhafi survived the raid, but his daughter was killed). The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported on March 15 that in the interview Rodriguez had stated that he personally expected to participate in a CIA operation to kill Chavez.

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The United States openly supported a military coup against the Chavez government in April 2002, which was reversed two days later by a popular uprising. Since then, however, the US Congress-funded National Endowment For Democracy has poured millions of dollars into the groups that supported the coup.
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america, the country that tortures, invades, and murders to get what it wants.

Central America and South America better fight back.

[htuttle]

1. That's what they've been training those terrorists in Florida to do

Anti-Castro Group's Leader Talks To Local 10
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y04/nov04/25e6.htm

WPLG Click10.com. Wed Nov 24.

The leader of a South Florida anti-Castro group admits that the group does train Venezuelan exiles in military tactics, but he denies having any role in a bombing that killed a top Venezuelan government prosecutor last week.

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The charge echoed Chavez's earlier accusations that Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" were training in Florida to execute him and were using the media to call for his overthrow.

DKos article mentioning it:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/19/135039/235

NOTE: I dug up an article about the F4 Commandos (America's official Cuban terrorist group) training Venezeulan exiles in Florida from the F4 Commandos own website a year or two ago. If I can find it again, I'll try and post it. The Washington Post also covered this at the time, IIRC.

[w8liftinglady]

6. apparently,some history there

http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Venezuela

[sui generis]

2. we're definitely trying to stir up some shit - there is no doubt

and we're doing it in our own inimitable subtle way; with a sledgehammer.

[kweerwolf]

3. No way will we get involved in Venezuela

For one thing most of the neocons and Repugnantcans realize it would be an international embarassment everytime the Commander-in-Chimp snickered when he pronounced "Crack-Ass" for the capitol of the country during press conferences.

[IronLionZion]

4. Sure, because of all their WMDs

:eyes: They must be an imminent threat to the US....oil interests.

An Air Force recruiter was talking to me on campus yesterday. I told him I'd consider it more seriously if the Democrats were in charge.

[Igel]

5. Of course; they're going to invade, kill all the inhabitants,

and construct a giant wombat farm.

Oh, no wait, that's going to be Syria. Or was it Iran?

No, sorry for the sarcasm, but I don't see much chance of the former coup-plotter being the subject of another coup.