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Prensa Latina 3/29/04<br>
US Violates Human Rights in Guantanamo, Chavez Says<br><br>
Caracas.- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez censured the<br>
United States for its daily human rights violations against<br>
the prisoners-of-war of different nationalities held in<br>
Washington's illegal naval base in Guantanamo, eastern<br>
Cuba. The president pointed out that while it holds<br>
prisoners incommunicado and tortures them and asserts<br>
pressure so that its soldiers are not held accountable in<br>
international courts for crimes against humanity, the US<br>
points the finger at other countries, such as Cuba,<br>
claiming human rights violations. Chavez expressed the wish<br>
that the people of the United States will once again take<br>
the reins of their country - not only for themselves, but<br>
for the benefit of international law, the peoples of the<br>
world, and peace.<br><br>
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Published: Tuesday, March 30, 2004<br>
Bylined to: <a href="mailto:news.desk@vheadline.com">VHeadline.com
Reporters</a> <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Costa Rica cancels
asylum for Venezuelan Confederation of Trade Unions (CTV) Carlos Ortega
after repeated warnings to stop subversion against President Chavez
Frias<br><br>
</font><img src="cid:5.2.0.9.2.20040330055626.01a834c0@mail.freedomarchives.org.0" width=169 height=262 alt="2254a7.jpg"><font face="georgia" size=3><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=2 color="#000080"><i>Fugitive trade
union<br>
mafia boss Carlos Ortega<br><br>
</i></font><font face="georgia" size=3>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.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>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."<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>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. <br><br>
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</font><font face="verdana" size=2 color="#000080"><i>FEDECAMARAS
fugitive<br>
Carlos Fernandez<br><br>
</i></font><font face="georgia" size=3>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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