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De Observer is er blijkbaar achtergekomen dat de coup in Venezuela georganiseerd was door senioren uit de Amerikaanse poltiek en waarvan sommige nu Bush omringen.

Ik geef hier enkele citaten weer. Onderaan de URL voor dit artikel en enkele URL's voor andere artikels over Venezuela.

"The failed coup in Venezuela was closely tied to senior officials in the US government,"

"One of them, Elliot Abrams, who gave a nod to the attempted Venezuelan coup, has a conviction for misleading Congress over the infamous Iran-Contra affair."

"The visits by Venezuelans plotting a coup, including Carmona himself, began, say sources, 'several months ago', and continued until weeks before the putsch last weekend. The visitors were received at the White House by the man President George Bush tasked to be his key policy-maker for Latin America, Otto Reich.

Reich is a right-wing Cuban-American who, under Reagan, ran the Office for Public Diplomacy. It reported in theory to the State Department, but Reich was shown by congressional investigations to report directly to Reagan's National Security Aide, Colonel Oliver North, in the White House.

North was convicted and shamed for his role in Iran-Contra, whereby arms bought by busting US sanctions on Iran were sold to the Contra guerrillas and death squads, in revolt against the Marxist government in Nicaragua."

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,688071,00.html

April 14, 2002
The CIA and the Venezuela Coup
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum0414.html

April 13, 2002
Coup in Venezuela:
An Eyewitness Account
http://www.counterpunch.org/wilpert0413.html

August 8, 2002
Bush Administration Tries to Hide Role in Venezuela Coup
http://www.counterpunch.org/weisbrot0808.html

January 4, 2003
Venezuela: Chomsky's Tropical Nightmare
http://www.counterpunch.org/mutaner01042003.html

a good movie was played on Arte 2 days ago about the coup :
http://www.chavezthefilm.com
chavez amigo el pueblo esta contigo !

Venezuela's Electronic News.

April 11 Chavez coup d'etat linked to Bush 'dirty wars' team.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=6568

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=316205&group=webcast