[News] Hugo Chavez warns that Bush 2 is destabilizing Venezuela

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Posted: Monday, March 08, 2004
By: <mailto:news.desk at vheadline.com>David Coleman
http://vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=16272

President Hugo Chavez Frias warns that Bush 2 is destabilizing Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez Frias says his opponents are following a plan of 
violence against his government that was "Made in the USA" ... and 
referencing events in Haiti, he says that US President George W. Bush does 
not have the integrity to draw the line at kidnapping other countries' 
Presidents.

However, he warns: "Here in Venezuela the United States will get 'a little 
surprise' if they try the same thing..."

Chavez Frias showed pictures taken by security forces in the thick of 
opposition-inspired riots over the last week which ended in seven deaths, 
200 injuries and 300 arrests. Chavez Frias claims that opposition rioters 
used machineguns and rifle fire against the National Guard (GN) and 
innocent bystanders ... "I have no doubt ... we have experienced organized 
subversion groups armed with military weapons, supported by the 
Metropolitan Police (PM) as a private army of the so-called Coordinadora 
Democratica (CD) ... their strategy was designed in Washington ... Made in 
the USA!"

It is the second time that Chavez Frias has accused US President George W. 
Bush, despite Bush's Saturday statement in which he said that the United 
States work with the Organization of American States (OAS) to help 
guarantee the integrity of the Presidential recall and the referendum 
demanded by the Venezuelan opposition.

"The plan is not Venezuelan in origin, Chavez Frias says ... "Bush's 
government has its hands deep in the destabilization plan against 
Venezuela, against our people, against Venezuelan institutions, against 
Venezuelan democracy."  He says the Haitian leader was the victim of an 
"express kidnapping" although Washington has been at pains to claim that 
Aristide resigned voluntarily when it became apparent that no foreign 
troops would "protect him" from the rebel forces bent on ousting and 
assassinating him.  "The US government does not draw the line at kidnapping 
Presidents.  Here in Venezuela, I tell you ... they'd better not try 
something similar because they'll get a little surprise!"

Chavez insists that the Bush 2 administration was behind a coup d'etat 
against him in April 2002, and that the Pentagon had sent planes and 
warships into Venezuela waters ... although this too has been denied by 
Washington.

Chavez Frias says the US government had scrambled planes and ships to 
spirit him out of Venezuela ... or to drop him into the sea from a 
helicopter ... "What is Washington trying to do? Destabilize its secure 
source of oil?  I simply cannot understand Bush's attitude backing 
coupsters ... if they kidnap me, my friends would resist with everything we 
have and begin a 100-year war against US imperialism ... not only in 
Venezuela but all over Latin America and the Caribbean."


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