Operation Balboa - Bush's Plan to Invade Venezuela (according to Chavez)

[Dover]

Venezuela Discovers More Oil - Bush Plans Invasion
Clif Ross
07/11/05 Epicenter News Service

http://www.eastbaynews.org/stages/word_stage1.php?EBN=050711_1_word

MÉRIDA, VENEZUELA - The State oil company of Venezuela, PDVSA, confirmed today the discovery of four billion square feet of natural gas in western Venezuela, believed in June to have only been 2 billion square feet. It also confirmed that it possesses the largest single reserve of oil in the world. In addition to the estimated 78 billion barrels of conventional oil reserves, there are 235 billion more barrels of heavy and extra-heavy crude, known as Orimulsion, in the Rio Orinoco region. This means that Venezuela possesses under her soil nearly fifty percent of the total amount of oil in the entire Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Iran and Qatar have a combined total of 676 billion barrels while Venezuela´s total alone is 313 billion barrels.

This might go a long way in explaining why the Bush Administration has made extensive plans for an the invasion of Venezuela. Plans for a joint U.S.-NATO invasion of Venezuela date back to May 3, 2001, according to an article published in last week´s edition of Venezuelan weekly "Las Verdades de Miguel." The plan was dubbed "Operation Balboa" and drawn up by the Southern Command under George Bush, according to the report, written by José Luis Carpio. The invasion had as its objective to "remove Hugo Chavez from power, using the same strategy employed in the war against Iraq" with a massive midnight bombing campaign, followed by an invasion and occupation of the country.

President Hugo Chavez had mentioned Operation Balboa on Sunday, July 3, in his weekly television show, Alo Presidente, but without offering details. At that time Chavez said he knew "in detail" about the plan and he also proposed an "Operation Counter Balboa," an operation which may already be underway.

For several months now the Venezuelan Military has been conducting joint exercises with the civilian population in preparation for national emergencies like "earthquakes, tsunamis and invasions by foreign forces." They have also made recent purchases of 100,000 small arms and helicopters from Russia and begun developing plans to build up a national civilian defense force to repel any foreign aggression.

"Operation Balboa" appears not to have been implemented beyond the design stage, but neither have the plans been scrapped. According to Carpio, "The plans presented by the North Americans continue in effect and the possibility remains, according to the sources of information that have been consulted, of the appearance of unidentified groups attacking U.S. citizens or interests, which would give greater justification for an intervention." This latter scenario may already be in the works and has historical precedents dating back all the way to the Mexican American War...cont'd

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/1717188_comment.php

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Chavez Stokes Confrontation Over U.S. Role in Venezuela

By Monte Reel
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, July 19, 2005; Page A15

CARACAS, Venezuela -- After the rumble of tanks died down and the last soldier high-stepped past the spectators' pavilion, President Hugo Chavez told the thousands attending Venezuela's Independence Day parade July 5 that no invading army could match the fighting force that had just marched by, "armed to the teeth."

The hypothetical invasion he invoked was patently clear: Two days before, Chavez had announced the discovery of evidence that the United States had drawn up blueprints to invade Venezuela, a plan he said was code-named "Operation Balboa."


American officials dismissed the claim as fiction, just as they have denied Chavez's repeated assertions that the CIA is trying to assassinate him, or that the Bush administration was behind the military coup that briefly toppled his government in April 2002.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/18/AR2005071801370.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. standard operating procedure

confesions of an economic hitman finished saying that he is next

[genius]

2. Chavez is a good man. Bush is a terrorist.

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Guyana is a neighbor to Venezuela

and I know several people from Guyana. They have some interesting stories to tell -- I've found no verification of their stories but knowing how the oil lusting bushies work -- these stories may be true.

According to Guyanese who are working on several Caribbean Islands and in the US -- the Government of Guyana was under tremendous pressure from the US to slant drill into Venezuela's oil and gas reserves.

Knowing how Kuwait did in fact slant drill into Iraq's oil reserves -- it would not surprise me if US Oil companies did in fact come up with this sort of plan. The pressure on Guyana was very intense.

[Carolab]

4. Yes and he promised to provide proof to Ted Koppel.

So he can "share it" with the American people.

We'll see if Ted "shares".

[OneBlueSky]

5. with what army? . . . the Boy Scouts? . . . n/t

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