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Prensa Latina 3/29/04
US Violates Human Rights in Guantanamo, Chavez Says

Caracas.- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez censured the
United States for its daily human rights violations against
the prisoners-of-war of different nationalities held in
Washington's illegal naval base in Guantanamo, eastern
Cuba. The president pointed out that while it holds
prisoners incommunicado and tortures them and asserts
pressure so that its soldiers are not held accountable in
international courts for crimes against humanity, the US
points the finger at other countries, such as Cuba,
claiming human rights violations. Chavez expressed the wish
that the people of the United States will once again take
the reins of their country - not only for themselves, but
for the benefit of international law, the peoples of the
world, and peace.



Published: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Bylined to: <mailto:news.desk at vheadline.com>VHeadline.com Reporters

Costa Rica cancels asylum for Venezuelan Confederation of Trade Unions 
(CTV) Carlos Ortega after repeated warnings to stop subversion against 
President Chavez Frias

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Fugitive trade union
mafia boss Carlos Ortega

Costa Rica's government says it has canceled political asylum conceded to 
fugitive Venezuelan Confederation of Trade Unions (CTV) leader Carlos 
Ortega after repeated warnings to the renegade to stop using his Costa Rica 
bolthole as a base for continued subversion against democratically-elected 
President Hugo Chavez Frias.

After Ortega's high-profile participation in anti-Venezuela demonstrations 
in Miami on Saturday, Costa Rica's vice foreign minister, Vinicio Vargas 
called time out and said Ortega's presence at the rally was "decidedly 
contradictory of the spirit in which asylum had been granted."

Earlier yesterday, Monday, Venezuela's Foreign Minister (MRE) Jesus Arnoldo 
Perez had said an official complaint would be sent to both Costa Rica and 
the the United States.  Recently, the United States granted political 
asylum to fugitive former Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce & 
Industry (Fedecamaras) president Carlos Fernandez who, with Ortega, had led 
a crippling December-January 2003 blockade of Venezuela's oil industry 
causing an estimated US$10 billion in revenue losses and strangling oil 
supplies to North America.  Fernandez now lives in Weston (Florida) after 
sneaking out of Venezuela by boat rather than face criminal 
charges.  Ortega had fled to the Costa Rican embassy in Caracas after an 
arrest warrant was issued against him.

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FEDECAMARAS fugitive
  Carlos Fernandez

The Venezuelan government states that Costa Rica and the United States 
should have barred both renegades from taking part in such overt political 
activities in clear abuse of their asylum status ... enough that both 
continue to conspire against the legitimate government in their homeland.

President Hugo Chavez Frias was elected in 1998 in a landslide victory on a 
reform ticket to purge rampant corruption in Venezuela.  He survived a 
2-day coup in April 2002, which saw the imposition of USA puppet dictator 
Pedro Carmona Estanga.  He has accused the United States of supporting the 
coup and of providing a ready-made bolt hole in southern Florida for 
anti-government terrorists while insisting that Venezuela unquestioningly 
submits to US Homeland Security dictates while negating Venezuela's 
security.  Two rebel military officers who are wanted on an international 
arrest warrant for bomb attacks in Caracas are claiming asylum in the 
United States which repeatedly denies clear evidence of its subversive 
intrusion in Venezuela's domestic political affairs.




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