Kill Venezuela’s Chávez?

The VenGusanos in Miami are very active.... Miami, terrorist capital of the Western Hemisphere.

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Kill Venezuela’s Chávez?

...But his new verbal offensive only confirms US willingness to harass President Chávez. His clear electoral victory in the recall referendum of August 15, 2004 has demonstrated he has the support of the people. This was again demonstrated in regional elections of October. No dirty maneuver – not even the failed coup of April 2002, supported by Washington – has been able to halt the project of social transformation, in a framework of democracy and liberty, that has been launched by Hugo Chávez. His personal success at the Social Forum in Porto Alegre, where more than 15,000 enthusiastic young people praised his speech, has transformed him into an honored figure of the entire Latin American left.

This is more than sufficient reason for the raptors of Washington to intensify their pressure against him. Although they have not put Venezuela among the "six bastions of world tyranny," it appears to be first on the waiting list. And although they still haven’t dared to use against Caracas the now habitual argument of possessing "weapons of mass destruction," we can see how they are trying to convert, through an offensive propaganda campaign, a purchase of 100,000 rifles into a "danger to the security of the hemisphere…"

One must be afraid that the next phase will be a crime of State, the murder of Hugo Chávez. Venezuelan Vice-President José Vicente Rangel has exhibited photographs demonstrating the existence in Homestead, Florida, of a paramilitary training camp readying for incursions into Venezuela with no harassment from US authorities. Some of these terrorists are already working in Venezuelan territory. Proof of this: May 2nd of last year, on the outskirts of Caracas, a group of 91 Colombian paramilitares, linked to the CIA and whose principal objective was to kill Chavez, was detained. The leader of the group, José Ernesto Ayala Amado "Commander Lucas" confessed that their mission included "cutting Chavez’s head off."

The ranks of the opposition promote this type of assassination. On July 25, 2004, at the height of tension surrounding the recall referendum, former-president Carlos Andrés Pérez, in an interview published in Caracas newspaper El Nacional, did not hesitate to confess: “I am working to overthrow Chávez. Violence will allow us to take him out. Chávez must die like a dog.”

In an October 25th, 2004 broadcast on Miami TV's Channel 22, opponent Orlando Urdaneta, gave direct orders of action to his comrades: "The only solution for Venezuela is to eliminate Chavez: one person with a rifle and a telescopic sight, and it’s done."

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1383

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Cuban Right-Wing Terrorist Group"F-4 Commandos" Training Venezuelan Paramilitaries in the Miami Area

By Cort Greene

George Bush, who declared a "War against Terrorism", and has needlessly taken the world to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, has conveniently forgotten to look in his brother's own backyard in fighting it. Recently in Jeb Bush's Florida, Cuban paramilitary leader Rodolfo Frometa of the right-wing terrorist group"F-4 Commandos" openly admitted helping and training Venezuela paramilitaries associated with Luis Garcia Morales, a former National Guard captain who fled Venezuela after fomenting a military coup against the government of President Chavez. The Miami area has been a hotbed for terrorist groups for decades - the largest CIA center outside the Washington D.C. area is at the University of Miami. Many members of the Death Squads from the Wars in Central and South America of the 60s,70s, and 80s now reside in Miami. Also, two former members of the Venezuelan National Guard, wanted for terrorist attacks on the Spanish embassy in Caracas are currently being held at the Krome Detention Center - but efforts to extradite them for prosecution in Venezuela and / or Spain are being stalled by the US government. It's clear that for the US imperialists, "terrorists" aren't so bad when they're pro-US.

At last weekend's Anti-Chavez rally in Miami, where less than 200 demonstrators attended, leaflets were handed out with a picture of Frometa and Morales dressed in military clothing and brandishing guns, along with a statement calling on Venezuelans to rise in insurrection and encouraging them to wage a war against President Chavez if the opposition fails to oust him by a recall referendum. Rodolfo Frometa, who is well-known as a terrorist to the United States government, having been imprisoned for 3 years for illegal weapons purchases, said: "Our camps are open to any Venezuelan who understands that there can be no dealings with Communists". In a speech at the rally, fugitive CTV boss Carlos Ortega called for the assassination of Chavez and subversion against the Venezuelan government.

http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/cuban_terrorist_f4_miami.htm

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THE Miami terrorists are not a priority for the FBI, affirmed Judy Orihuela, spokes person for the Federal Bureau of Investigations office in Miami, in an interview published by The Sun-Sentinel. The assassination in Caracas of Venezuelan Public Prosecutor Danilo Anderson ended up displaying, in all its horror, the result of that policy of tolerance on the part of U.S. authorities towards the Miami circles that openly preach and practice terrorism.

In the south of Miami-Dade county, a group of people dressed in camouflage, use high-caliber weapons and train, the article from this important South Florida newspaper continued in its April 6, 2003 edition, referring to the terrorist training camp maintained in the Everglades by the Cuban-American group Commandos F-4, led by notorious criminal Rodolfo Frómeta.

...Months earlier, in a September 4, 2002 wire, datelined Miami, the Spanish agency EFE had already revealed that “a retired captain from the Venezuelan National Guard” had formed “an alliance with a group of Cuban exiles in Miami.”

The dispatch specified that “attired in his country’s national guard uniform at the Cuban exiles group Commandos F-4 headquarters, Luis Garcia Morales, representing the Venezuelan Patriotic Junta” declared that from that moment he would be coordinating actions with the Miami terrorists.

“SECRET MISSION” IN WASHINGTON

On January 29, 2003, an article entitled “Miami’s Little Havana Finds New Foe in Venezuelan Leader,” published by The Wall Street Journal, illustrates the extent of the FBI’s criminal inertia.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/noviembre/juev25/48fiscal-i.html



Former captain of the Venezuelan army Luis Garcia, head of the terrorist Venezuelan Patriotic Junta, training at the Homestead camp in Florida with terrorists from Rodolfo Frómeta F-4 Commandos. Ex-generals Medina and González González were also present.

community to riot among other things--as they did during the Elian Gonzales fiasco. Listeners regularly hear callers saying that Chavez should be killed, etc., a common thing the Banana Republic of Miami. El Nuevo Herald, the Oligarch's Daily (aka Miami Herald) Spanish language rag, does much of the same. For some perspective about Cuban radio stations and media, here's a portion from Francisco Aruca's Progreso Weekly's about page. Aruca's businesses have been bombed several times and his life threatened frequently.

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Francisco G. Aruca founded Radio Progreso in 1991 as an alternative to the specific characteristics of Miami and their limiting effect on freedom of expression, diversity of opinion and objective information through the mainstream media. Our primary goal has been to bridge the cultural and bilingual gap in our diverse community. We started our first radio program “Ayer en Miami” (“Yesterday in Miami”) in Spanish in January of 1991. It immediately filled a void that existed in Spanish-language media in Miami for over 40 years. The success and usefulness of the program in Spanish prompted the launching of our English-language program, “Babel’s Guide” in June of 1999.

In order to understand the characteristics of Miami, you must first look at the Cuban-American community. The Spanish-language media in Miami has traditionally been dominated by a very powerful, hard-line, segment of the Cuban-American exile community, which has managed to prevent the free flow of information and ideas in relation to the Cuba issue. This extreme segment of the Cuban-American community has used, as a pretense, the thesis of affecting change in Cuba. However, as their power in Miami increased politically, economically and socially, the leaders of the hard-line exile community successfully extended what amounted to real censorship on any area that affected their interests here in Miami, such as local corruption, interracial and international relationships in this region. They depend on the image of a homogeneous Cuban-American community with regard to almost every issue that serves their narrow interests in order to ensure their continued power and influence here in Miami. While dominating the media with messages of fighting for freedom in Cuba, this extreme segment has used its power in Miami to accomplish everything EXCEPT freedom for ALL of us, Cubans and non-Cubans alike, here in Miami.

Freedom of expression in the Spanish-language media is virtually non-existent. Those who have expressed views and opinions differing from the hard-line position have done so at the high risk of physical, political, financial and/or social repercussions. They have violated one of the most important principles guaranteed by our Constitution, freedom of expression. Even today, if you analyze El Nuevo Herald, the only major Spanish-language newspaper, you will find not only that the news is presented with extreme bias and inaccuracy, but that not one single columnist writes an opinion different from the traditional exile position, portraying the false image that there is no diversity of opinion within the Cuban-American community.

http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=radioprogreso&otherweek=

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Bloque Democratica Alonso's role confirms Miami-Colombia-Venezuela axis

The main character in the alleged Colombian paramilitary drama in Venezuela, Robert Alonso has allegedly stated via Internet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has been after him ... he has told friends that he was being persecuted by Chavez Frias.

A report in El Universal has stated that Cuban-Miami based media have been attempting to interview Alonso who was not present at his ranch when security forces swooped on his Daktari farm in Miranda State, arresting 79 Colombians.

(Miami) Radio Mambi's Ninoska Perez Castellon, who frequently interviewed Alonso on her talk show, has confirmed that the last time her guest appeared on the show, he was worried because Chavez was persecuting him.

* Alonso has been described as a rabid anti-Chavist and top organizer for Venezuelan opposition group, Bloque Democratica (BD), which has rejected and condemned the Coordinadora Democratica's (CD) supposedly democratic approach to ousting President Chavez Frias from power.

BD claims it has contact with members of the Armed Force (FAN), both active service and retired and has constantly directed messages of rebellion.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=21092

...mafia thugs and political agitators! Here's what Michael Moore had to say on the subject of Cuba and Castro and the U.S.'s relationship with that country and situation:

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A history of cuban counter-revolution
While we're still on the subject of Cuba...

By Michael Moore

Have you ever wondered how Fidel Castro has stayed in power for so long? No one, other than the King of Jordan, has been in the top spot for a greater period of time. The man has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, ten Olympic Games, and the return of Halley's Comet. And no matter what the United States government does to try to dethrone him, he's got more lives than Cher has comebacks.

It's not that our American leaders haven't given it their best effort. Ever since Castro liberated his country from the corrupt U.S.- and Mafia backed Batista regime, Washington has tried a variety of methods to unseat him. These have included taxpayer-funded assassination attempts, invasions, blockades, embargoes, threats of nuclear annihilation, internal disruption, and biological warfare (the CIA dropped a bunch of African Swine Fever germs over the country in 1971, forcing the Cubans to destroy 500,000 pigs).

And, something that has always seemed strange to me, there is an actual US naval base on the island of Cuba! Imagine if we after defeating the British in our Revolution, we then let them keep a few thousand troops and a bunch of battleships in New York Harbor. Weird. President Kennedy, who followed through with President Eisenhower's plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, ordered the CIA to kill Castro, trying everything from a pen filled with poison ink to an exploding cigar. (No I do not get my information from Maxwell Smart; it's all in the Church committee report from the U.S. congress, 1975.)

Of course nothing worked. Castro became stronger and the U.S. continued to go nuts. Cuba was seen as "the one that got away." It became an embarrassment to us. Here we had every nation in this hemisphere in our back pocket - except those damn Cubans. It looked bad. Like when the whole family goes out to dinner and the one bad seed, little Billy, just won't sit still and do what he is told. Everyone in the place is looking at the parents and wondering just what kind of job they're doing. The appearance that they have no discipline or control is the worst humiliation. So they start whacking little Billy, but forget about it - he ain't ever going to finish his peas.
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<link> http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/exile/michael-moore.htm

Background on Radio Mambi and Perez-Roura:

....Radio Mambí is the biggest of Miami’s many Spanish-language talk-radio stations, and it’s all anti-Castro all the time. Armando Perez-Roura, Radio Mambí’s editorial director and its principal on-air voice, is an exile in his seventies. He has a trained, rum-smooth voice, and as a backdrop to his delivery of the evening news the station plays full-orchestra mood music that sounds as if it were emanating from the pit in an old-time movie palace—the effect is retro, rousing, and faintly threatening.

Radio Mambí’s listeners are in great part los historicos, who are drawn to Perez-Roura’s hard-line stands, such as his unapologetic support for Orlando Bosch and others with violent pasts. Jeb Bush is a regular guest on Perez-Roura’s show, and, people say, uses Perez-Roura to reach the abuelitas—the little grandmothers, who turn out reliably on Election Day, and who follow Perez-Roura’s political advice.

When I visited Perez-Roura at Radio Mambí, the atmosphere of denunciation with which he fills the airwaves was absent. Instead, I found a pale, heavyset, polite, elderly man in an immaculate cream-colored suit. He had only nice things to say about the Bushes. He had been invited aboard Air Force One when the first Bush was President. The Bush whom he, Perez-Roura, knows best is the Governor, and he told me that Jeb is someone “who profoundly understands our pain.” (Of Perez-Roura, Jeb says, “I proudly consider him a friend.”)

Of course, it’s not only Republicans who kowtow to the hard-liners. Watch the Democratic Presidential nominee this year come to Miami and swear fealty to the embargo. The math is not difficult. Endorsing the embargo (which is, after forty-five years, surely the single most unsuccessful major piece of American foreign policy ever) might lose a candidate ten votes in Iowa. But not doing so could lose him a hundred thousand votes in South Florida.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040315fa_fact

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Cuban Exiles Fundraise For Defense Of Terrorist, 1/01

The Spanish language news agency EFE reported on December 15 from Miami that Cuban exiles in that city participated in a radio marathon to raise funds for the legal defense of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and another 3 henchmen arrested with him in Panama.

Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo, Pedro Remon Posada, and Gaspar Jimenez were arrested in the Panamanian capital on November 17 after Cuban intelligence notified Panamanian police of a plot by the four men to assassinate President Fidel Castro Ruz during the X Ibero American Summit.

"We are going to free the four compatriots and will not allow that a crime of this nature be committed against them" swore Armando Perez Roura, director of Radio Mambi (WAQI-AM) in Miami.

According to Roura, "the accusation is the pure invention of a regime that uses all of its resources to make lying accusations against its enemies".

The goal of the radio marathon is to collect $200,000, organizer Santiago Alvarez told EFE. He added that the "success of the marathon has been complete: the calls are constant and the pledges are very encouraging".

http://www.afrocubaweb.com/posada-arrested.htm#Fundraise

...terrorist group operating out of Miami FL:

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June 4, 2002

THE PRESIDENT’S DANGEROUS LIAISONS
Which Cuba does Bush dream of?

• It’s not necessary to ask why a Miami court punished five Cuban patriots so cruelly for committing the ‘crime’ of trying to halt the criminal plans of Miami’s terrorist mafia, associated with George W. Bush

BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD (Special for Granma International)

THE recent triumph of George Bush II, holding court in Miami, gives a fairly clear idea of the Cuba of the empire’s dreams. In his preaching about democracy and free and honest elections, the current resident of the White House selected an audience of extremists, terrorists, drug traffickers and heirs of well-known Batista supporters.

Standing out among the great “democrats” who showed the most adulation for the U.S. president on May 20 are some characters whose connection with the most revolting aspects of the Batista dictatorship leave no doubt about their concept of democracy.

A good example of the “new Cuba” dreamt of by Bush is represented by the spokesperson for the Cuban Liberty Council, Ninoska Lucrecia Pérez-Castellón, who is among the president’s avid admirers, along with the hysterical Marisleysis González, one of Elián’s kidnappers.
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<link> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/junio02/23amist-i.html

Is it any wonder why Cuban naturalized U.S. citizens vote in lockstep for republicans and George W Bush in this last election?