Reply #6: Isn't that pathetic? [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

You knew these people would be involved, but not so obviously!

The farm where they were arrested belonged to Roberto Alonso, a Cuban "exile" living in Venezuela, brother of the "actress," Maria Conchita Alonso. (I did a search on her once, and learned she has been in a Schwarzenneger movie. Figures, right? Whatta skank.)

Here's an article you may not have seen, with a little new information:

Venezuela arrests Colombian fighters
By JULIA OLMSTEAD / Colombia Week



President Hugo Chávez Frías called them paramilitaries training to oust his government.
Police near the Venezuelan capital on May 9 arrested about 100 Colombian mercenaries that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías called paramilitaries training to assassinate him and overthrow his government.

The Caracas Metropolitan Police captured most of them after an unnamed female caller on May 8 reported a hijacking of two city buses. Later she reportedly directed three squad cars to a wooded area on the city’s outskirts. After a brief standoff with a man claiming to be a Venezuelan officer and armed with a pistol, the police arrested about 50 Colombians dressed in Venezuelan military uniforms and packed into the buses. Police arrested dozens more nearby.

The government said they had been training at Daktari Ranch, a farm owned by Cuban-Venezuelan Roberto Alonso, a member of a Venezuelan opposition group called the Democratic Bloc.

On May 10, Chávez said the alleged plot involved Venezuelan opposition groups and Miami-based Cubans who oppose Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Two days later he said U.S. Army Gen. James T. Hill, head of U.S. military operations in Latin America, knew of the plot. U.S. officials denied the accusation. And Chávez recanted his charge May 14, saying he didn’t believe U.S. or Colombia officials were involved.
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Unknown agents had lured at least some of the Colombians from provinces near Venezuela, the Bogotá daily El Tiempo reported May 15. They included unemployed peasants living near Cúcuta, Norte de Santander Province, a border city controlled by paramilitaries and known for illegal drug and petroleum trafficking. Family members of some of the peasants said the men were offered $200-$500, textile jobs and a shot at Venezuelan citizenship in return for going to that country for military training, the newspaper reported.
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http://www.colombiaweek.org/20040517.html

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She was Miss Venezuela in 1975.

This is the only photo of Roberto Alonso, originally from Cienfuegos, Cuba, I can find:



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It would be terrific if they had actually shut down the assassination plan, but it's undoubtedly still in force as long as Chavez remains President, and maybe afterwards, just for the hallibut.