Venezuela Alleges Groups Plotted Attacks

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela Alleges Groups Plotted Attacks

2 hours, 31 minutes ago

By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, Associated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela - Anti-government groups in Venezuela are plotting to attack the country's leader and disrupt next month's presidential recall vote using stolen explosives, top officials allege.

Details of the plots surfaced Friday as the country prepared for the recall referendum Aug. 15 on Hugo Chavez's presidency.

Venezuela is deeply divided between those who see Chavez as a champion of the poor and those who accuse him of becoming increasingly authoritarian. To be recalled, more citizens must vote against Chavez than the nearly 3.8 million who re-elected him in 2000.

Interior Minister Luis Rincon said radicals were seeking to use plastic explosives stolen from a navy base to create chaos during the voting.

"There are people here, and they aren't favored in the polls, who want a scenario of violence," Lucas Rincon said. "They think it will change the result of the vote."
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[seventhson]

1. watch out for that here too

I have just been reading about trhe Reichstag Fire and how it was "inspired by Dr. Goebbels's desire for a resounding 'electoral bomb'". (Konrad Heiden, History of National Socialism, Knopf, 1935., p. 246)

When we remember that the Bushes were financing the Nazis at that time and that their political strategists were ivy leaguers and wall street fascists - we must remain alert for that potential here in the United States.

They are well aware of the parallels and the strategy.

Heiden, by the way, escaped to the United States and wrote "Der Fuehrer" in 1944 which brilliantly explains the methodologies of fascism and fascist propaganda and black operations we are facing NOW.

[Gyre]

2. Chavez is smarter than Aristide

He's got his people fanned out. If the repubs get careless it could be another Bay of Pigs.

Gyre