URIBE GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF PLOTTING AGAINST CHÁVEZ

URIBE GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF PLOTTING AGAINST CHÁVEZ
Caracas, Friday April 25 , 2008

JUAN FRANCISCO ALONSO
EL UNIVERSAL

Promoting the independence of Zulia state, northwest Venezuela, is one of the purposes outlined in an alleged plan to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez -a plot former Attorney General Isaías Rodríguez has reported repeatedly.

In a document entitled Shock and Awe (Provoking Shock to Get Respect) -which Rodríguez filed last week with the Attorney General Office-, it is stated that both the US and Colombian authorities, including Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, have held meetings to support Zulia state's secession from Venezuela.

Rodríguez filed the document in an attempt at showing that recent reports claiming that the investigation -conducted while he was the Attorney General- into the murder in 2004 of public prosecutor Danilo Anderson is plagued with defects are part of a plot.

In the file, which the former Attorney General attributed to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Zulia state governor Manuel Rosales is said to support the plan. Further, the document explains that even though the plan may fail the purpose is to deviate the Venezuelan government's attention from other subjects matters.


http://english.eluniversal.com/2008/04/25/en_pol_art_uribe-government-acc_25A1537671.shtml

Remember El Universal is virulently anti-Chavez, has been from the first. It's going to take some time before we get a chance to hear more of the IMPORTANT details.

The Attack on Latin American Democracy
April 25th 2008, by John Pilger - New Statesman

Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

http://wwwv.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3385

http://snipurl.com/25udh

It's your Pilger article published in a different source. Looks like a lot of people who read without moving their lips will be seeing this soon! Thanks for calling our attention to it. Pilger is very important, and I'm hoping that ugly little slime Uribe won't be able to target him for assassination just because he can and does call him what he is. From your Pilger article:

Under "Plan Colombia", more than $6bn in arms, planes, special forces, mercenaries and logistics have been showered on some of the most murderous people on earth: the inheritors of Pinochet's Chile and the other juntas that terrorised Latin America for a generation, their various gestapos trained at the School of the Americas in Georgia. "We not only taught them how to torture," a former American trainer told me, "we taught them how to kill, murder, eliminate." That remains true of Colombia, where government-inspired mass terror has been documented by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and many others. In a study of 31,656 extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances between 1996 and 2006, the Colombian Commission of Jurists found that 46 per cent had been murdered by right-wing death squads and 14 per cent by Farc guerrillas. The para militaries were responsible for most of the three million victims of internal displacement. This misery is a product of Plan Colombia's pseudo "war on drugs", whose real purpose has been to eliminate the Farc. To that goal has now been added a war of attrition on the new popular democracies, especially Venezuela.

US special forces "advise" the Colombian military to cross the border into Venezuela and murder and kidnap its citizens and infiltrate paramilitaries, and so test the loyalty of the Venezuelan armed forces. The model is the CIA-run Contra campaign in Honduras in the 1980s that brought down the reformist government in Nicaragua. The defeat of the Farc is now seen as a prelude to an all-out attack on Venezuela if the Vene zuelan elite - reinvigorated by its narrow referendum victory last year - broadens its base in state and local government elections in November.

America's man and Colombia's Pinochet is President Álvaro Uribe. In 1991, a declassified report by the US Defence Intelligence Agency revealed the then Senator Uribe as having "worked for the Medellín Cartel" as a "close personal friend" of the cartel's drugs baron, Pablo Escobar. To date, 62 of his political allies have been investigated for close collaboration with paramilitaries. A feature of his rule has been the fate of journalists who have illuminated his shadows. Last year, four leading journalists received death threats after criticising Uribe. Since 2002, at least 31 journalists have been assassinated in Colombia. Uribe's other habit is smearing trade unions and human rights workers as "collaborators with the Farc". This marks them. Colombia's death squads, wrote Jenny Pearce, author of the acclaimed Under the Eagle: US Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean (1982), "are increasingly active, confident that the president has been so successful in rallying the country against the Farc that little attention will shift to their atrocities".

Also to be found at this link: http://www.newstatesman.com/200804240026

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