[News] Chavez: US and Colombia plan to attack Venezuela

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

http://www.chavezcode.com/2010/07/chavez-us-and-colombia-plan-to-attack.html



<http://www.chavezcode.com/2010/07/chavez-us-and-colombia-plan-to-attack.html>Chavez: 
US and Colombia plan to attack Venezuela

By Eva Golinger

Caracas, July 24, 2010 – Venezuelan President 
Hugo Chavez denounced this Saturday US plans to 
attack his country and overthrow his government. 
During a ceremony celebrating the 227th birthday 
of Independence hero Simon Bolivar, Chavez read 
from a secret memo he had been sent from an 
unnamed source inside the United States.

“Old friend, I haven’t seen you in years. As I 
said to you in my three prior letters, the idea 
remains the generation of a conflict on your 
western border”, read Chavez from the secret missive.

“The latest events confirm all, or almost all, of 
what those here discussed as well as other 
information that I have obtained from above”, the letter continued.

“The preparation phase in the international 
community, with the help of Colombia, is in plain 
execution”, manifested the text, referring to 
last Thursday’s session in the Organization of 
American States (OAS), during which the Colombia 
government accused Venezuela of harboring 
“terrorists” and “terrorist training camps” and 
gave the Chavez government a “30-day ultimatum” 
to allow for international intervention.

The letter continued with more details, “I told 
you before that the events wouldn’t begin before 
the 26th, but for some reason they have moved 
forward several actions that were supposed to be executed afterward”.

“In the United States, the execution phase is 
accelerating, together with a contention force, 
as they call it, towards Costa Rica with the 
pretext of fighting drug trafficking”.

On July 1, the Costan Rican government authorized 
46 US war ships and 7,000 marines into their maritime and land territory.
The true objective of this military mobilization, 
said the letter, is to “support military operations” against Venezuela.

ASSASSINATION AND OVERTHROW

“There is an agreement between Colombia and the 
US with two objectives: one is Mauricio and the 
other is the overthrow of the government”, 
revealed the document. President Chavez explained 
that “Mauricio” is a pseudynom used in these communications.

“The military operation is going to happen”, 
warned the text, “and those from the north will 
do it, but not directly in Caracas”.
“They will hunt ‘Mauricio’ down outside Caracas, 
this is very important, I repeat, this is very important”.

President Chavez revealed that he had received 
similar letters from the same source alerting him 
to dangerous threats. He received one right 
before the capture of more than 100 Colombian 
paramilitaries in the outskirts of Caracas that 
were part of an assassination plan against the 
Venezuelan head of state, and another in 2002, 
just days before the coup d’etat that briefly 
outsted him from power. “The letter warned of 
snipers and the coup”, explained Chavez, “and it 
was right, the information was true, but we were unable to act to prevent it”.

US MILITARY EXPANSION

This information comes on the heels of the 
decision last Thursday to break relations between 
Colombia and Venezuela, made by President Chavez 
after Colombia’s “show” in the OAS.

“Uribe is capable of anything”, warned Chavez, 
announcing that the country was on maximum altert 
and the borders were being reinforced.

Last October, Colombia and the US signed a 
military agreement permitting the US to occupy 
seven Colombian bases and to use all Colombian 
territory as needed to complete missions. One of 
the bases in the agreement, Palanquero, was cited 
in May 2009 US Air Force documents as necessary 
to “conduct full spectrum military operations” in 
South America and combat the threat of “anti-US governments” in the region.

Palanquero was also signaled as critical to the 
Pentagon’s Global Mobility Strategy, as outlined 
in the February 2009 White Paper: Air Mobility 
Command Global En Route Strategy, “USSOUTHCOM has 
identified Palanquero, Colombia (German Olano 
Airfield SKPQ), as a cooperative security 
location (CSL). From this location nearly half of 
the continent can be covered by a C-17 without refueling”.

The 2010 Pentagon budget included a $46 million 
USD request to improve the installations at 
Palanquero, in order to support the Command 
Combatant’s “Theater Posture Strategy” and 
“provide for a unique opportunity for full 
spectrum operations in a critical sub region of 
our hemisphere where security and stability is 
under constant threat from narcotics funded 
terrorist insurgencies, anti-US governments, 
endemic poverty and recurring natural disasters”.

The May 2009 Air Force document further added 
that Palanquero would be used to “increase our 
capacity to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance 
and Reconnaissance (ISR), improve global 
reach
and expand expeditionary warfare capability”.

In February 2010, the US National Directorate of 
Intelligence (NDI) classified Venezuela as 
“Anti-US Leader” in the region in its annual threat assessment.

The US also maintains forward operation locations 
(small military bases) in Aruba and Curazao, just 
miles off the Venezuelan coast. In recent months, 
the Venezuelan government has denounced 
unauthorized incursions of drone planes and other 
military aircraft into Venezuelan territory, originating from the US bases.

These latest revelations evidence that a serious, 
and unjustified conflict is brewing fast against 
Venezuela, a country with a vibrant democracy and 
the largest oil reserves in the world.




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