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</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Toni Solo: USA covert
action ... Danilo Anderson and Condoleezza Rice <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>Central America activist Toni Solo
writes: </b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>On Tuesday November 16,
George W. Bush put forward Condoleezza Rice as his proposed Secretary of
State to take over the diplomacy of US warmongering from the outgoing
fraud, Colin Powell.
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<li>Two days later, on November 18, leading Venezuelan state prosecutor
Danilo Anderson was killed in a car bomb attack eerily reminiscent of the
murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffit in Washington in 1976 by
Cuban terrorists working for Augusto Pinochet and protected by the
CIA.</font>
</ul><font face="verdana" size=2><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>Venezuelan authorities believe
Anderson was killed by two charges of C4 plastic explosive fixed to his
car and detonated remotely, apparently by cell phone. The timing of
Rice's nomination and Anderson's murder are unlikely to be fortuitous.
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</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>With Rice's appointment, George
Bush sustains the incestuous link between his regime and earlier, still
extant, plutocrat state terror Godfathers like George Bush Sr., James
Baker and George Schultz. Rice, a protege of Schultz, the former Bechtel
president, could hardly be a more emblematic representative of the nexus
between state terror and big business.<br><br>
Chevron may have renamed the former "Condoleezza Rice" oil
tanker "Altair Voyager," but that all-too-recent link to an
outfit boasting it "...now ranks among the most important
international petroleum producers in Venezuela and Colombia, is
<a href="http://www.chevrontexaco.com/operations/docs/latin_america_caribbean.pdf">one
of the largest private integrated oil companies in Brazil and is the
third-leading producer in Argentina"</a> bodes ill for people in
Latin America.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Why was Anderson
murdered? <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>Danilo Anderson was an investigating
magistrate in charge of several prominent and politically sensitive
cases. His work proceeded in the context of recent elections confirming
overwhelming popular support for President Hugo Chavez Frias. Among the
cases within Anderson's brief were those against the leader of a mob that
attacked the Cuban Embassy in Caracas during the failed coup d'etat of
April 12 <i>(2002)</i> and against members of the Caracas Metropolitan
(PM) police accused of unlawful attacks under opposition ex-Metropolitan
Mayor Alfredo Pena.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>Anderson was also processing cases
against owners of Venezuelan print & broadcast media implicated in
the April coup of 2002 as well as the signatories of the coup declaration
overthrowing the elected government. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Perhaps the most internationally
sensitive case he was working on was that against the Sumate organization
... a supposedly impartial NGO funded by the CIA's companion organization
the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In fact, Sumate actively
campaigned with US government money to defeat President Chavez throughout
the long process ending in last August's recall referendum. Such activity
contravened Sumate's neutral non-profit status, breaking Venezuelan law
in the process. <br><br>
Writer and academic Heinz Dieterich has written cogently about Anderson's
murder: "The menace of Danilo for Washington's terrorist project was
two-fold ... he threatened one of its main instruments of power,
Venezuela's corrupt class justice system and too he was becoming a symbol
of the honest patriot and servant of the majority of the new Bolivarian
nation.</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="georgia" size=2><b>Danilo Anderson's murder shows that
the subversion has made a qualitative leap to a generalized
offensive.</b></font>
</ul><font face="verdana" size=2><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>From now on, people emblematic of the
process whose death may have a high propaganda value for Washington will
be in danger. Likewise, the subversion will begin attacks against energy
and transport infrastructure and carry out more murders and incursions
along the Colombian border...<br><br>
<a href="http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=7885">Looking back in
history, we can say that the Bolivarian revolution has entered the phase
of the Cuban revolution of 1960 when the US-Cuban counter-revolution
launched attacks, sabotage and murders from nuclei in the Sierra
Escambrey or, too, Nicaragua from 1983 onwards."</a><br><br>
The silence from international media has been eloquent ... an ever ready
litmus test of mainstream media hypocrisy is to check out the less
reactionary media that preen themselves on their
"balance."<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>But, if you review the web sites of
UK media like the Guardian, the Independent or the BBC you will look in
vain for any report on the murder of Danilo Anderson. Why is this?
<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Presumably for the same reasons UN
supervision of the murder and rape of opponents to the US puppet regime
in Haiti fails to make the news -- lazy complacency, herd instinct,
advertiser-conscious self-censorship and jobs worth respect for the
limits of dissent. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Rice on the April 2002
coup <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>In effect, mainstream media serve as
the echo chambers of empire, colluding in imperial silences as well as
projecting hyperbolic PR spin. Condoleezza Rice's commitment to the
subversion of Venezuela's elected government has been clear ever since
the coup of April 2002. The perversity of her analysis of Venezuelan
affairs can be seen in this quote from NBC's "Meet the Press"
on April 14, 2002. Interviewed by Tim Russert after Chavez was returned
to power by massive popular demonstrations against the coup plotters,
here's what Rice had to say: <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2><a href="http://embajadausa.org.ve/wwwh1789.html">"I
hope that Hugo Chavez takes the message that his people sent him that his
own policies are not working for the Venezuelan people, that he's dealt
with them in a high-handed fashion. And I hope what he said in his speech
this morning, that he understands that this is a time for national
reflection, that he recognizes it's time for him to reflect on how
Venezuela got to where it is. He needs to respect constitutional
processes..."</a><br><br>
</b></font>
</dl><font face="georgia" size=3>Perhaps only in the United States could
an analysis so totally contrary to the facts be taken seriously. But the
profound mendacity of individuals like Rice is nothing new. Their
conscious doublespeak -- averring concern for democracy while doing all
in their power to destroy it -- serves as a cover for deniable operations
by Rice's shadowy covert operations colleagues -- operations like the
murder of Danilo Anderson. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=4>Destabilization -- breaking out the
standard tool kit <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>The United States terror machine has
always used covert armed violence to complement bribery, political
subversion, economic thuggery, trade and aid blackmail, media
falsification and electoral dirty tricks.<br><br>
Proof of the well-armed subversion in Venezuela ... probably abetted by
United States covert agencies like the CIA ... came on Tuesday, November
23 when a young lawyer wanted for questioning in relation to Anderson's
murder died in a shootout with Venezuelan police. In his house the police
found explosives, rocket launchers and missiles. The discovery is yet
more evidence indicating a well-financed terrorist network organized from
outside Venezuela, based mainly in Colombia and the United States.
<br><br>
Venezuelan authorities have good reason to be suspicious of US motives
despite last week's statement by US Ambassador Brownfield condemning
Anderson's murder. No action has been taken by US authorities against
Venezuelan opposition terrorist training camps in Florida or against
opposition figures like well known Venezuelan actor Orlando Urdaneta who
recently in Miami publicly called for assassinations of leading members
of the Venezuelan government. Former Venezuelan army officers wanted by
the Venezuelan courts in relation to the bombing of foreign embassies in
Caracas have found sanctuary in the US. <br><br>
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<dl>
<dd>Similarly, earlier this year exiled and disgraced former President
Carlos Andres Perez was widely reported calling for the violent overthrow
of Venezuela's elected government. Colombia protects the leader of the
April 2002 coup, Pedro Carmona Estanga. Venezuela has requested his
extradition, so far without result. It's worth remembering that Colin
Powell held at least one meeting with the exiled Carmona in Bogota in
December of 2002. <br><br>
</dl>In June this year, Miami's Channel 41 TV station broadcast a program
featuring anti-Castro and anti-Chavez terrorists in what was in effect a
fundraiser. <font face="georgia" size=2>Counterpunch reported:
</font><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/wire06112004.html" eudora="autourl"><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2>"Adding
weight to recent accusations of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, former
Venezuelan army captain Eduardo Garcia was also present in full uniform
to discuss the help Comandos F4 were giving in his efforts to bring down
Chavez by force. Chavez has frequently charged that Miami Cuban-American
terrorist organizations are involved with Venezuelans seeking to
assassinate him....The host of the Round Table program, Randy Alonso,
simply asked viewers to form their own conclusions after seeing such an
astonishing program, commenting that the message that Frometa gave was
clear: his paramilitary organization was ready and trained -- it just
needed the money. And, said Alonso, the money is there -- $36 million
recently earmarked by the US government to support such
groups."
</a><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/wire06112004.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.counterpunch.org/wire06112004.html</a>
<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Continent-wide
offensive <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>The Bush regime has begun to pay more
urgent attention to Latin America. Just this month, Donald Rumsfeld
visited Nicaragua on his way to Ecuador for a summit meeting of Defense
Ministers from the Americas.<br><br>
In Quito, Rumsfeld pressed, among many other things, for the region's
military to take on civilian policing roles.<br><br>
In Chile, President Bush himself attended the Asia Pacific Economic
Conference, making time also to visit Alvaro Uribe, propped up by
narco-paramilitaries as President of Colombia. Uribe's dismal repressive
army dominated security regime has led to increasing numbers of
disappearances of members of the civil opposition and murders of trades
unionists. </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="georgia" size=2>President Bush promised even more support
from the US taxpayer for Colombia's state terrorist government.
</b></font>
</ul><font size=3><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>As its economic position weakens in
relation to Europe and Asia, the US plutocrat class-warrior government
will increasingly need to rely on control of Latin America to sustain
their budget and trade profligacy. Everything they do in Latin America is
inter-related: trade and investment deals, military bases, ruthless
pressure for more failed neo-liberal policies through the IMF and World
Bank, corporate pillage of energy and mineral resources, legal or illegal
introduction of genetically manipulated grains, insistence on
multinational-friendly intellectual property rules, training
paramilitaries in Colombia, promoting subversion in Venezuela, continuing
economic and armed terrorism against the people of Cuba. The list of
activity goes well beyond legitimate defense of US interests and reaches
far into the realms of terrorism and militarist aggression. <br><br>
It is reasonable to suggest that when George Bush named Condoleezza Rice
as his next Secretary of State, he signaled the all clear for an
escalation in covert action against opponents of US policy in Latin
America.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=4>Danilo Anderson was the first victim
of that escalation in Venezuela.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>Rice's appointment and Bush's personal
enthusiastic endorsement of Alvaro Uribe sends a clear message that
Venezuela in particular and Latin America in general can expect higher
levels of US government inspired terrorism from now on. <br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="georgia" size=2>Toni Solo is an
activist based in Central America.<br>
Contact:
<a href="mailto:tonisolo@nicaliving.com">tonisolo@nicaliving.com<br>
</a></i></font><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=4 color="#000080"><a href="http://www.tonisolo.net/" eudora="autourl">www.tonisolo.net</a>
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