Venezuela Judge Orders Officers Arrested

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Venezuela Judge Orders Arrest 59 Ex-Military Officers Suspected of Plotting Against Chavez


CARACAS, Venezuela July 31, 2004 — Two weeks before a presidential recall referendum, a Venezuelan judge ordered the arrests of 59 former military officers on suspicion of plotting against President Hugo Chavez's government, the state-run press agency said Saturday.

The arrests were announced a day after Interior Minister Luis Rincon charged that anti-government groups were plotting to attack Chavez and disrupt the Aug. 15 presidential recall vote using stolen explosives.


Also Saturday, Chavez threatened to intervene if the country's largest telephone company, Cantv, were to be involved in any fraud relating to the recall referendum. Cantv, owned by the U.S. company Verizon Communications, is part of a consortium operating the voting machines. Chavez did not elaborate on how he would intervene.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/9292742.htm

[acmavm]

1. Using U.S. voting machines? He's damned smart to warn them not to

pull any funny business. Too bad we can't do the same here.

[goforit]

2. LOL!!!!.............Doesn't this sound familiar!!!......

No wonder Jebs been so quiet.

[Judi Lynn]

3. They'll never give up until they are either all in jail, which is unlikely

or they assassinate Hugo Chavez or he miraculously completes the Presidency a huge number of Venezuelan citizens chose for him.

They are determined to control the government once again, and reverse the progress made by the people's President, very similar to the monsters we've been witnessing here, as they unfold, and grab more and more of our world every day.

Anyone who doesn't recognize the pattern is simply A.W.O.L. mentally.

From the article:

The arrests were ordered Friday, Venpres reported, the same day Rincon discussed the alleged plot. Most of the officers have gone into hiding, Venpres said.
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The officers whose arrests were ordered were among a group of more than 100 officers who declared themselves in rebellion of the government in 2003. Most of them moved into the basement of a public square in eastern Caracas, where the opposition gathered to protest.

The officers whose arrests were ordered included three army generals involved in a short-lived coup against Chavez in April 2002.

Friday's arrest order came about two weeks after 138 pounds of C-4 plastic explosive and 80 detonators were stolen from a navy base. C-4, a common military explosive, was used in the bombings of the Colombian and Spanish embassies in Caracas in 2003. Chavez blamed the attacks on the dissident military officers.
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[Tight_rope]

4. Interesting!