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jetdawgg
04-22-07, 01:56 PM
<TABLE id=ViewArticleTable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>by Chris Carlson

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<TABLE id=ViewArticleTable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=left colSpan=2>"I want to kill that son of a *****," said the Capitan of the Venezuelan National Guard, Thomas Guillen in a recorded telephone call with his wife. In the call, played on Venezuela's state TV channel last month, the Capitan reveals his and his father's plans to kill President Hugo Chávez. The next day, the Capitan and his father, retired General Ramon Guillén Dávila, were arrested and taken into custody for conspiring to kill the President of Venezuela. [1]

In recent weeks, Hugo Chávez has increasingly warned that the United States has plans to kill him and is stepping up its activity against him and his government. Chávez has also claimed that the CIA is working with associates of the famous Cuban terrorist and CIA agent Posada Carriles, designing plans for his assassination. But could there be any truth to all of this? Could this be a classic CIA-conspiracy to kill another official "enemy" of the United States? A quick look at the connections between the CIA and the General Ramon Guillén Dávila shows that it definitely is a possibility.

The United States manages to spread its tentacles into different countries around the world in various ways, influencing and intervening in the politics of sovereign nations. In Latin America, one of the most common ways is through supposed "drug operations." The CIA has been known to run "anti-drug" operations in countries like Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador.

In Venezuela, such CIA-created "anti-drug" operations were led in the 1980's by the same General Ramon Guillén Dávila who was recently planning to kill Chávez. According to the Miami Herald, Guillen was the CIA's most trusted man in Venezuela and the senior official collaborating with the CIA during the 1980's. [2]

As head of the Venezuela National Guard, Guillén worked closely with the CIA to infiltrate and gather information about Colombian drug trafficking operations. But instead of curbing drug operations, Guillén and the CIA ended up smuggling cocaine themselves, and the whole thing exploded when 60 Minutes aired an expose in 1993. The CIA had collaborated with Guillén to smuggle the incredible sum of 22 tons of cocaine into the United States. [3]

After US customs intercepted a shipment of cocaine entering the country through Miami Internatoinal Airport, an official investigation revealed that General Guillén was responsible. But according to investigative journalist Michael Levine, Guillén was a CIA "asset" operating under CIA orders and protection, a fact that was later admitted by the CIA. General Guillén was never extradited for trial in the U.S. [4]

So is General Ramon Guillén Dávila still a CIA "asset" working to knock off the Venezuelan President? Whether or not the General maintains ties with the CIA, it does seem that he would be a likely candidate for destabilization efforts against the Chávez government.

According to the web page School of the Americas Watch, General Guillén graduated from the infamous U.S. combat training school in 1967. [5] The School of the Americas, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001, is a US military facility that is used to train Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques and interrogation tactics.

As another of the many tentacles of the U.S. Empire, the School of the Americas has been called the "biggest base for destabilization in Latin America." Located in Fort Benning, Georgia, the school sends its graduates throughout the region to repress left-wing and communist movements and to influence the political situations in Latin American countries. The school has frequently supported regimes with a history of employing death squads and torture to repress their populations.

Last week, during the 5th anniversary of the 2002 U.S.-supported coup attempt against the Venezuelan government, Chávez emphasized that "the empire never rests." He assured that the United States, along with the Venezuelan elite will continue conspiring in order to remove him from power, and that they would never accept the Bolivarian Revolution.

It would be no surprise, however, if the CIA were planning to kill or overthrow Hugo Chávez. The criminal organization has a long and dirty history of covert operations including assassinations, economic warfare, and rigged elections. In Latin America alone the CIA has overthrown numerous regimes in places like Nicaragua, Chile, Panama, Brazil, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and, most recently, Haiti in 2004.

What would be more surprising is if the CIA is not searching for a way to get rid of the popular Venezuelan President. After all, Chávez has proven to be quite a threat to the interests of the U.S. Empire and their corporate sponsors. Chávez has sharply rejected Washington's neo-liberal agenda, nationalized major sectors of the economy, freed his country from IMF and World Bank mandates, strengthened OPEC, taken control of the nation's oil industry, and strengthened south-south integration across the world.

However, what is even more threatening to the interests of the empire is that the revolution in Venezuela serves as an example in the region, and is now spreading to other places. Countries like Bolivia and Ecuador are now living their own revolutions, replicating the Venezuelan experience.

It seems feasible that former CIA "asset" General Ramon Guillén Dávila was conspiring with the CIA to get rid of the most consolidated leftist movement in Latin America today. But regardless of whether or not the CIA can manage to extinguish the fire in Venezuela, it might be too late for them to control the growing wave of leftist revolutions in the region.

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President Chavez to visit Iran soon: Mottaki


Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday evening that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is to visit Tehran in the near future.
He made the remark while talking to reporters following his meeting with the Venezuelan president.

Mottaki said he submitted a written message from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to his Venezuelan counterpart, inviting him to pay a visit to Tehran. The invitation was accepted by the Venezuelan president, he added.

Terming his meeting with President Chavez as "constructive and fruitful", he said the latest international developments were discussed in the meeting.
He praised Chavez's strong support for Iran's peaceful nuclear program.
On Tehran-Caracas relations, he said the two countries witnessed a good progress in bilateral ties in the past one-and-half year.

Great efforts are being made to increase direct flights between Tehran and Caracas, he added.

Congratulating the Venezuelan government and nation on the occasion of the country's National Day (April 19), he said the Iranian government and nation support Venezuelan stand with regards to different world issues.

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0704213952125846.htm

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Zulu 36
04-22-07, 02:00 PM
One hopes so . . .

drumcorpssnare
04-23-07, 11:00 AM
If the CIA is planning to take out Chavez, they had better get some practice in first. They tried numerous times to get rid of Castro, and "flubbed" every attempt.
So, if practice is in order before an attempt on Chavez...I think the CIA should practice on Hillary, Nancy, Rosie, Ms. John Kerry, (and the list goes on and on...):D
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

davblay
04-23-07, 11:15 AM
Why not sent in the UNIT? According to TV, they do that stuff all the time! Old Snake Doctor can do it! Ooops, maybe that is just a fantasy of our government officials!

davblay
04-23-07, 11:16 AM
If the CIA is planning to take out Chavez, they had better get some practice in first. They tried numerous times to get rid of Castro, and "flubbed" every attempt.
So, if practice is in order before an attempt on Chavez...I think the CIA should practice on Hillary, Nancy, Rosie, Ms. John Kerry, (and the list goes on and on...):D
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

YEP Washington needs an EMEMA! Totally!

drumcorpssnare
04-23-07, 01:38 PM
davblay- That's "enema." And yes, they should stick the tube right in Pelosi's face!:D
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

bootlace15
04-23-07, 01:55 PM
not to mention up her azz......................

bootlace15 out

FistFu68
04-23-07, 02:50 PM
:evilgrin: SINCE EVERYONE IS GETTING IN ALL THE HOLES,LET'S MAKE SURE "HUGO" GET'S A NICE HOLE; AIR-CONDITIONING HIS BRAIN!!!

Sgt Leprechaun
04-24-07, 12:44 AM
Now, now. If we whack Ole Hugo, then who will Cindy hug?

http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060129/060129_ven_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg (http://http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060129/060129_ven_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10704025

jetdawgg
04-24-07, 09:26 AM
SGT Lep, here is where the policy of this admin has been miserable. Due to the fact that we have put so much resource into the MENA we allowed Chavez to undermine CALA (China and Iran) also.

He is providing oil to a lot of poorer communities around the globe, undermining foreign policy for this nation. Condi Rice (Sec State) has not been punctual in her attendance of this matter.

Under Powell, Chavez was removed from office (coup). I saw in the budget for '08 that the USA is putting more money into this region. Bush recently made a trip to CALA. You have to understand that Chavez is Castro on steroids. His oil wealth gives him a base that Castro never had.

These issues like this is what upsets me about the current admin.:usmc: