Google translation: "Venezuela: We have identified the murderer of Luis Manuel Diaz"
Venezuela: We have identified the murderer of Luis Manuel Diaz
Friday, November 27, 2015 16:36
Venezuela authorities have identified the alleged perpetrator of the murder of opposition politician Luis Manuel Diaz, announced the ombudsman of the country, calling on the people to remain calm.
"Now the police have identified the suspected mastermind of that crime linked to a rival union Diaz", tweeted on Thursday Tarek William Saab, and then explain that the event stems from a dispute between unions in the construction sector Guarico state.
Luis Manuel Diaz, one of the secretaries general of the Venezuelan Democratic Action Party (AD), was killed shot in the campaign rally at the gates of the legislative elections on December 6 in the city of Altagracia de Orituco, located in the central state Guarico.
http://www.hispantv.com/newsdetail/Venezuela/76798/venezuela-asesino-opositor-luis-manuel-
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You may recall our learning about the deeply corrupt union leader, Carlos Ortega, who was instrumental both in the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez, and the work lock-out of employees of the oil company, as workers were unable to go to their jobs as the officials closed it all down in an effort to create a blow to the economy which would ruin Hugo Chavez' presidency. It didn't work, and the head of the union, Carlos Ortega, and the head of the Venezuelan chamber of commerce, Carlos Fernandez, were both invited to Miami by the Cuban "exiles" to serve as guests of honor at an "exile" anti-Chavez parade held on a day there were demonstrations in Washington, D.C. by hundreds of thousands of protesters against the coming Iraq War.
Really smooth ####, right? Low life scum.
Weekend Edition December 9-11, 2011
The Corrupting Influence of the NED
The AFL-CIO’s Covert Ops in Venezuela
by ALBERTO C. RUIZ
In 2002, the AFL-CIO’s international arm known as the “Solidarity Center” was greatly embarrassed when it came to light that it had been supporting actors in Venezuela participated in the short-lived coup against President Hugo Chavez. As a number of authors and publications noted at the time, the Solidarity Center, with money donated from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), gave support to the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (“CTV”) which in turn was instrumental in the coup against Chavez which, as the reader may call, involved the kidnapping of Hugo Chavez.
For example, the New York Times explained in an article entitled, “U.S. Bankrolling Is Under Scrutiny for Ties to Chavez Ouster,” that”f particular concern is $154,377 given by the endowment to the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the international arm of the AFL-CIO, to assist the main Venezuelan labor union in advancing labor rights.” As the Times noted, “The Venezuelan union, the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers, led the work stoppages that galvanized the opposition to Mr. Chavez. The union’s leader, Carlos Ortega, worked closely with Pedro Carmona Estanga, the businessman who briefly took over from Mr. Chavez, in challenging the government.”
And what’s more, it turns out that the Solidarity Center played a critical role, just before the coup, in bringing the CTV together with FEDECAMARAS (the Venezuelan chamber of commerce). This is important because the CTV and FEDECAMARAS went on to plan and carry out the coup together. However, quite curiously, the Solidarity Center did not stick around long enough to see how the coup ended up. This is because it moved its office (which is in charge of the entire Andean Region) from Caracas, Venezuela to Bogota, Colombia just three weeks before the coup took place.
The Solidarity Center attempted to defend itself against charges that it was up to its old Cold War tricks of working with the U.S. government to overthrow progressive, nationalist governments in the Third World – e.g., in the overthrow of Allende in Chile and Arbenz in Guatemala – by denying that the CTV, which it supported up to and indeed through the time of the coup, had anything to do with the coup. As the Boston Globe later noted in an article entitled, “US Tax Dollars Helped Finance Some Chavez Foes, Review Finds,” this denial had a hollow ring to it in light of the fact that “the Venezuelan media broadcast a recorded telephone conversation between Perez and Carlos Ortega, president of the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers , in which the pair plotted against Chavez.” In the end, the AFL-CIO later privately conceded that the CTV leadership did actively participate in the coup against Chavez. The same Boston Globe story concluded that the Solidarity Center’s other defense – that it was merely helping the CTV with matters of internal democratization – were also proven to be false.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/09/the-afl-cios-covert-ops-in-venezuela/
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Traitorous union leader, Carlos Ortega walks in the Miami anti-Chavez parade, wearing the zippy white T-shirt, while the dweeb, waving the little flag, wearing the cap, and brown shirt is the other one, the Chamber of Commerce head, Carlos Fernandez. They both tried to overthrow the Chavez government long ago. Ortega attempted to find refuge in Central America and was denied. I believe these tubes are living in Miami now. [/center]