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"Captain Compassion" |
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05 Apr 2006 03:51:05 PM |
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Secessionists threaten Venezuela’s unity |
Secessionists threaten Venezuela’s unity
The Guardian (Australia) ^ | 5 April, 2006 | WT Whitney
"It’s new evidence for a destabilisation plan that North American
imperialism, through the fascist government of George W Bush, is
carrying out in our country to torpedo and sabotage the revolutionary
process." Oscar Figuera, General Secretary of the Venezuelan Communist
Party and a National Assembly delegate, was referring to a new
secessionist movement in Zulia, the north-western Venezuelan state
where 40 percent of the nation’s oil reserves are located.
It is the latest in a series of extraordinary counter-revolutionary
actions spanning several years that includes a coup attempt, a strike
against the state-owned oil company and a boycott of parliamentary
elections.
On March 5, the Caracas daily El Nacional reported on plans of the
Zulian group Our Own Path to initiate a plebiscite there on October
24. Voters would vote on a "statute on autonomy" to "guarantee their
individual rights and their own free enterprise economic system".
Responding within hours on television, President Hugo Chávez accused
the US Government of plotting "to take control of the great oil wealth
there … and break the country into pieces."
"North American imperialists are reverting to old ways with a lunatic,
proxy fifth column with a mentality that is programmed, colonised and
traitorous", he said.
The separatists reportedly have ties with paramilitaries in Colombia,
adjacent to Zulia.
Chávez recalled that separatism is a recurring theme in Zulian
politics, beginning with the era of Simon Bolivar. A British observer
noted that secessionists and their US backers devised plans in 1935 to
convert Zulia into a US dependency.
Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez reported on a criminal investigation
of the secessionist movement but admitted that his department lacks
hard evidence of US involvement.
Homeland for All, a left political party, organised demonstrations
outside Rodriguez’s office on March 7 in favour of stepped-up
investigations. Rodriguez later announced the appointment of a judge
and hinted at "other action in addition to a criminal investigation".
Freddy Bernal, President of the Association of Bolivarian Mayors of
Venezuela, has called for a national mobilisation against the
separatists. On March 7, National Assembly President Nicolas Maduro
complained to reporters of "the conspiratorial silence of the
Venezuelan opposition [to Chávez]. … With this silence, they are
confirming their complicity."
Zulian Governor Manuel Rosales is one of only two state governors who
oppose Chávez. Giancarlo di Martino, Mayor of Maracaibo, the state
capital, accuses Rosales of secessionist leanings. William Lara,
national coordinator of Chávez’s political party, claims that Rosales
is a confidant of US Ambassador William Brownfield, the two of them
meeting 17 times last year, according to one source. Reportedly
Rosales crosses the border to meet with Colombian paramilitaries.
A multimillion-dollar publicity campaign for the separatist plebiscite
is under way, its onset timed with the reopening of the US Consulate
in Maracaibo after years of inactivity.
According to one report, NATO and US commanders staged a war game
invasion of Venezuela in Madrid five years ago. "Operation Balboa", as
it was called, was situated in Zulia.
Spokespersons for Our Own Path call for Zulian autonomy and "liberal
capitalism". They envision a president and senate instead of governor
and state legislature. Their model for Venezuela and Zulia is China
and Hong Kong: "one country, two systems". They look admiringly upon
Taiwan and Singapore.
The parallel situation of separatist agitation riling the eastern
Bolivian state of Santa Cruz, rich in natural gas, comes to mind.
Alberto Mansueti, one of the secessionist leaders, explains, "What we
want is a statute ... that will allow us to move from socialism to
free market norms". Secessionist ideologue Néstor Suárez argues that
Zulians "instinctively reject and resist against socialism" of any
variety.
Meanwhile, 500,000 civilian reservists in Venezuela will soon embark
upon a four-month weekend training course that emphasises tactics for
"asymmetric war", the term military planners apply to defence against
a powerful foreign force. Chávez predicted on March 5 that "If someday
a group of invaders comes looking for me, they will never take me
alive".
Communist leader Figuera condemned attempts "to split the country,
converting this region into a beachhead for fratricidal confrontations
among Venezuelans, to create international conditions that provide
justification for the gringo invasion plan for Venezuela". His party
calls for "the broadest possible national mobilisation. … The
Venezuelan people are not disposed to accept any action that threatens
the integrity of the national territory."
--
"There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to
whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is
impossible." -- Jack Vance
"Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce
"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
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--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net
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| User: "Mark Donovan" |
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| Title: Re: Secessionists threaten Venezuela's unity |
05 Apr 2006 04:42:51 PM |
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"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote in message
news:u8b832h84944kevr3ia95r3bp1p2g68nqv@4ax.com...
Secessionists threaten Venezuela's unity
The Guardian (Australia) ^ | 5 April, 2006 | WT Whitney
"It's new evidence for a destabilisation plan that North American
imperialism, through the fascist government of George W Bush, is
carrying out in our country to torpedo and sabotage the revolutionary
process." Oscar Figuera, General Secretary of the Venezuelan Communist
Party and a National Assembly delegate, was referring to a new
secessionist movement in Zulia, the north-western Venezuelan state
where 40 percent of the nation's oil reserves are located.
Of course CIA is busy working to create a mess in Venezuela and hopefully
overturn Hugo Chavez. It makes sense, however, to think about who is really
at fault that Communism, almost dead some four years ago, once again, is
rising from ashes and rising rapidly.
The current strongarm policy of hypocrisy, arrogance, violence and bullying
the world by the Bush administration, created the most fertile soil for all
leftist, terrorist, anti-American forces all over the world. Almost the
entire South America is turning red today (not Republican-red, but
Communist-red). The Arab world is boiling with anger and hate over American
attrocities and their arrogant attempt to impose, by my means of a brutal
force, their type of democracy, widely perceived as corrupt and perverted in
the Muslim world. The moronically short-sighted, lawless and violent foreing
policy of the US administration is the most powerful promotional and
recruiting tool for both the Communists and the Muslim terrorists alike, a
better recruiting tool than they have ever dreamed for.
Once again, I predict this century to be the bloodiest of all in the human
history, courtesy of the Bush administration. Forces of uncontrollable hate
and perpetual cycle of revenge, once almost tamed, now are being unleashed
upon the entire human race, by the stupid and evil human race. Maybe "Homo
Sapiens" is getting what it deserves.
Mark
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| User: "Gogarty" |
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| Title: Re: Secessionists threaten Venezuela's unity |
05 Apr 2006 05:02:21 PM |
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In article <vRWYf.49028$Fc.14200@trnddc08>,
says...
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote in message
news:u8b832h84944kevr3ia95r3bp1p2g68nqv@4ax.com...
Secessionists threaten Venezuela's unity
The Guardian (Australia) ^ | 5 April, 2006 | WT Whitney
"It's new evidence for a destabilisation plan that North American
imperialism, through the fascist government of George W Bush, is
carrying out in our country to torpedo and sabotage the revolutionary
process." Oscar Figuera, General Secretary of the Venezuelan Communist
Party and a National Assembly delegate, was referring to a new
secessionist movement in Zulia, the north-western Venezuelan state
where 40 percent of the nation's oil reserves are located.
Of course CIA is busy working to create a mess in Venezuela and hopefully
overturn Hugo Chavez. It makes sense, however, to think about who is really
at fault that Communism, almost dead some four years ago, once again, is
rising from ashes and rising rapidly.
The current strongarm policy of hypocrisy, arrogance, violence and bullying
the world by the Bush administration, created the most fertile soil for all
leftist, terrorist, anti-American forces all over the world. Almost the
entire South America is turning red today (not Republican-red, but
Communist-red). The Arab world is boiling with anger and hate over American
attrocities and their arrogant attempt to impose, by my means of a brutal
force, their type of democracy, widely perceived as corrupt and perverted in
the Muslim world. The moronically short-sighted, lawless and violent foreing
policy of the US administration is the most powerful promotional and
recruiting tool for both the Communists and the Muslim terrorists alike, a
better recruiting tool than they have ever dreamed for.
Once again, I predict this century to be the bloodiest of all in the human
history, courtesy of the Bush administration. Forces of uncontrollable hate
and perpetual cycle of revenge, once almost tamed, now are being unleashed
upon the entire human race, by the stupid and evil human race. Maybe "Homo
Sapiens" is getting what it deserves.
Well, now, that apocalyptic vision is a bit of a jump from yet another
restless and probably fuitless minor rebellion to the end of the world.
It is worthwhile recalling that Chavez won two elections and a recall election
and a coup and the strike against the oil industry. I doubt that CIA-funded
discontents who have been cut off from their usual source of graft will
prevail. And a shutdown of the Venezuelan oil industry in a US-provoked civil
war is not in the US's best interests. Not that that matters to the current
crowd.
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