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<font size=3><a href="http://www.vheadline.com/printer_news.asp?id=23570" eudora="autourl">http://www.vheadline.com/printer_news.asp?id=23570<br>
</a>Published: Friday, November 19, 2004<br>
Bylined to: <a href="mailto:editor@vheadline.com">Roy S. Carson</a>
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</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Venezuelan State
Prosecutor Danilo Anderson assassinated in cold blood in two-bomb
explosion in Los Chaguaramos/Santa Monica<br><br>
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ASSASSINATED: Danilo Anderson<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>State Political & Security (DISIP) agents
and CICPC detectives are seeking to determine if the victim of an jeep
which was blown to smithereens by two bombs on Avenida Las Ciencies de
Los Chaguaramos in the Santa Monica/Bello Monte area of Caracas at around
midnight last night could be that of State Prosecutor Danilo
Anderson.<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6 color="#FFFFFF"><b>US
NED funds democracy...<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=2><b>At this time, the indications are that the
driver's body is indeed Anderson and already government officials are
describing the incident as a further act of terrorism by radical
opposition groups who are determined not to accept electoral defeat.
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Danilo Anderson<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>Police say the vehicle belonged to Danilo
Anderson, was National Prosecutor <i>(4th section)</i> and had just
begun subpoenaing the 400 signers of an April 2002 Decree issued by
US-backed Dictator-for-a-Day Pedro Carmona Estanga, and most recently
former Metropolitan Caracas Mayor Alfredo Pena to give deposition on
coup-related charges and inquiries into opposition efforts to overthrow
the democratically-elected government of President Hugo Chavez Frias.
<br><br>
At the time of his assassination, Danilo Anderrson was working closely
with National Prosecutor (6th Section) Luisa Ortega who is handling the
case against National Endowment for Democracy (NED)-funded SUMATE leaders
as well as a defamation case against TV presenter Napoleon Bravo amongst
other cases.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>Anderson had been instrumental in
the prosecutions of Henrique Capriles Radonski for his role in April 2002
riots outside the Cuban Embassy in Caracas during which Capriles Radonski
had threatened to violate diplomatic security in efforts to lynch
government ministers who had taken refuge there.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>The case against Sumate directors
related to NED funding was initiated by Luisa Ortega, who was forcibly
kidnapped but escaped by throwing herself out of the kidnappers' car ...
she suffered severe lacerations and has visible scars as a result of that
attack.<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6 color="#FFFFFF"><b>US
NED funds democracy...<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>President Chavez Frias has asked Venezuela's
wildly opposition-faithful print & broadcast media to resist
speculating and to await the results of an official
investigation.</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="georgia" size=2><b>The President immediately suspended
his trip to attend the XIV Heads of State Summit taking place in San Jose
(Costa Rica). ... it remains unclear if President Chavez Frias will go
ahead with plans for an extensive foreign tour starting Monday to Spain,
Libya, Iran and Russia.</b></font>
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</font><font face="georgia" size=3>The explosions reportedly came around
midnight and police officials say the explosions may have been caused by
bombs detonated by remote control ... similar in modus operandi to
bombings which took place in February last year at the Spanish Embassy,
Colombian consulate and the Teleport building in Caracas where
Organization of American States (OAS)/Carter Center 'Friends of
Venezuela' negotiations were taking place.<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><img src="cid:6.1.2.0.2.20041119100910.0208b0a8@66.103.156.66.3" width=141 height=171 alt="107dee7.jpg"><br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Andres Izarra<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=2><b>Communications & Information (MinCI)
Minister Andres Izarra told reporters at the scene "there were two
explosions ... circumstances point to Danilo Anderson being the victim of
this attack."<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Speaking to Union Radio news
network just after 2:00 a.m. this morning, Interior & Justice
Minister Jesse Chacon saidthat the body of the driver taken from the
wreckage of the bombed yellow Toyota Autana was "almost certainly
that of Danilo Anderson." <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>Chacon went on to say that every
resource necessary will be made available to discover the perpetrators in
the shortest possible lapse of time and that he is adamant that (the
opposition) in the early hours of this morning was a terrorist attack ..
there is no doubt that it was terrorism. <br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6 color="#FFFFFF">US
NED funds democracy...<br><br>
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Danilo Anderson<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>The vehicle belonged to and was used by
Prosecutor Danilo Anderson, the personal effects that were found in the
wreckage of the vehiclela and statements made by those closest to him,
allow us to believe that the corpse is that of the prosecutor even if
there remains a series of forensic tests to determine his ID .. the body
was badly burned, almost totally in a ball of fire."<br><br>
"We in Venezuela cannot tolerate any form of terrorism ... we are
proceeding with investigations as quickly as possible so that we can make
known to the Venezuelan public who were the culprits to this dastardly
deed. We will use every resource available to the government to
identify the attackers and bring them to justice."<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><img src="cid:6.1.2.0.2.20041119100910.0208b0a8@66.103.156.66.5" width=181 height=191 alt="107dfc2.jpg"><br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Jesse Chacon<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>Chacon says he strongly repudiates violence
in Venezuelan politics and adds that "lamentably there are those in
this country who will stoop to using such methods but it is very far
removed from the wider Venezuelan mindset." He says that
authorities will <b><u>not</u></b> be dissuaded from investigating the
recipients of NED funding to overthrow the democratically-elected
government of Venezuela ... "I have appointed Caracas Superior
Prosecutor Leoncio Guerra to continue the investigations together with
30th and 8th National Prosecutors.<br><br>
Appealing to Venezuelans to remain calm, Chacon said that the double
explosion apparently came from bombs concealed in the chassis of
Anderson's vehicle ... "those who prepared this terrorist attack had
a lot of time in which to do it ... Anderson did have bodyguards but he
had dismissed them to attend postgraduate study courses at the Bolivarian
University and we presume that it was on the basis of this routine that
the killers planned his assassination.<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6 color="#FFFFFF"><b>US
NED funds democracy...<br><br>
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AN deputy Cilia Flores<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=2><b>Juan Barreto, the newly-installed
Metropolitan Caracas Mayor attended the scene of the incident before dawn
this morning in the company of National Assembly (AN) deputies Nicolas
Maduro, Dario Vivas and Iris Varela, as well as the president of the
National Elections Council (CNE) Jorge Rodriguez. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>AN deputies Cilia Flores and
Nicolas Maduro have called on all Venezuelans to repudiate this kind of
terrorist action ... "it is in no way part of the culture or
sentiment of the Venezuelan people." Valera says that a month
ago she was informed by security services that a series of terrorist
attacks was on the cards ... "certain plans were discovered linking
opposition political figures and (Colombian) AUC paramilitaries from Tibu
and Cucuta."<br><br>
Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference (CEV) president Monsignor Baltazar
Porras has totally repudiated Danilo <br><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Monsignor Baltazar
Porras<br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>Anderson's assassination in the early hours
of this morning ... he has called for calm and rejects any thought of
retaliation against those (in the political opposition) who are suspected
of orchestrating the assassination.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>"This tragedy is lamentable
and should be repudiate from every aspect ... violence is not the way to
a solution of the problems in Venezuelan society ... as a Church we
repudiate in the most absolute way possible everything to do with this
kind of manifestation."<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Monsignor Porras says the CEV will
be issuing an official statement later in the day ... but "the
government should not rush to accuse anyone or to seek retaliation ...
spaces must be opened up for diverse opinions which must not be put down
... the State has an executive function and should try to synchronize
procedures inasmuch as harmony augurs for social well-being, not the
route of resentment."<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Bookman" size=6 color="#FFFFFF"><b>US
NED funds democracy...<br><br>
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<font face="georgia" size=3>Danilo Anderson had just celebrated his 38th
birthday on October 29 and was seen as having a promising career in the
legal profession after graduating as a lawyer at the Central University
of Venezuela (UCV( in 1995. He began working at the Finance
Ministry (Hacienda) immediately thereafter rising to the rank of
inspector general.<br><br>
In 2000 he became an auxiliary prosecutor at the Attorney General's
Office assigned to the 4th Environmental Attorney's Office in Carupano
(Sucre) and completed a postgraduate course in Environmental &
Sustainable Development Law at the Cendes Development Studies Center in
Caracas.<br><br>
Just 6 weeks ago Anderson ... whose favorite hobby was mountaineering in
the Gran Sabana and the Andes close to his home town of La Vega (Merida)
... was set upon by two thugs in the Sambil shopping mall in Caracas ...
they are now awaiting trial.<br><br>
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