Mounting provocations against Venezuela

Mounting provocations against Venezuela

Washington backs kidnapping of Colombian guerrilla exile in Caracas

By Bill Van Auken
26 January 2005

The barrage of US provocations against Venezuela since the beginning of the year is a clear indication that the oil-rich South American country will be one of the principal targets in the global war on “tyranny” elaborated by George W. Bush in his inauguration speech last week.

The latest campaign mounted by Washington has centered on the kidnapping in Caracas last month of a senior international representative of the Colombian guerrilla movement, the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

The FARC representative, Rodrigo Granda, was abducted by a combined force of US-trained Colombian special forces and elements of the Venezuelan military, who were reportedly paid over $1.5 million to collaborate in the kidnapping. Several Venezuelan national guardsmen—ironically, leading members of an elite anti-kidnapping unit—have been placed under arrest for their part in the seizure of Granda.

The operation, a flagrant violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty, recalled the cross-border seizures and murders of exiled political dissidents carried out by Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s under the CIA-backed “Operation Condor.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/vene-j26.shtml

any country is 'tyrranical' if they have oil and refuse to give it to us.

the greatest tyrannical force the Earth has ever known. History has taught us that every empire build on evil has a very catastrophic and humiliating collapse.

overthrowing a government, or some such thing that you could be guilty of a felony... (it was the thread about the kids drawing some violent stick figures) so I ask you, if your own government is plodding along upon a path that is inevitably going to take down your country... are they not as guilty, even though they mean well, and the path they are pursuing is due to their own stupidity.... I wonder.

Bush administration, good for the military industrial complex, bad for America.

you lost me there.

President Hugo Chavez won with 59% of the vote. The US will not accept a Democratically elected government that doesn't kneel and kiss bushes ass.

What a bunch of freaking hypocrites.

Are the ones pushing the unrest that Bush his secretly aiding. This has happened all over the globe where Socialist, Marxist or Populist Governments want control of national resources for the citizens and not multi-nationals.

did to Iraq.

now there is an unbiased source of info :eyes:

The American education system did succeed in inculcating its anti-socialist indoctrination. Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid, and continue to support the war (err, I meant to say the troops).

dont knock it just because its leftist.

Amazing how many Americans still believe in the same American press that lied to them about WMD in Iraq, while ignoring news sources that told them the truth all along. No wonder sheep are inherently dumb!

Venezuela like we did France and Russia in Iraq.

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The lying Lady Macbeth.