[NV Greens] Fwd: USGP-INT CIA thwarted

[Paul Etxeberri]

>
>venezuelanalysis.com
>June 11, 2005
>
>U.S. Outburst at OAS Meeting
>
>Chavez and the Bolivian Crisis Towards the end
>of the two-day session by the Organization of
>American States (OAS) in Fort Lauderdale,
>Florida, the U.S. ambassador to the organism,
>Roger Noriega, threw a temper tantrum.
>After all, Washington had just received a
>stunning rebuke.
>
>By Al Giordano - NarcoSphere Published: 08/06/05
>
>Towards the end of the two-day session by the
>Organization of American States (OAS) in Fort
>Lauderdale, Florida, the U.S. ambassador to the
>organism, Roger Noriega, threw a temper tantrum.
>
>After all, Washington had just received a stunning
>rebuke from the other countries around the table
>against its proposal to create mechanisms for foreign
>meddling in the affairs of other countries (read:
>Venezuela), and  Bolivian President Carlos Mesa had
>just offered his resignation in the face of a massive
>popular movement to nationalize the Bolivian gas
>industry.
>
>Noriega, not used to losing gracefully, simply blew his
>top, spitting loudly that Venezuelan President Hugo
>Chávez is to blame for Bolivia's crisis.
>
>Noriega has a point, but not in the way he thinks he
>has it...
>
>Check out this account in Oligarch's Daily, er, The
>Miami Herald:
>
>   As Bolivia drifted toward political chaos Tuesday,
>   Washington's top diplomat form Latin America hinted
>   that Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez was
>   somehow responsible for the worsening situation.
>
>   "Chávez' profile in Bolivia has been very apparent
>   from the beginning," Assistant Secretary of State
>   for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega said
>   in response to a question about Chavez' influence
>   on the turmoil in Bolivia.
>
>   "His record is apparent and speaks for itself,"
>   Noriega told reporters atthe Organization of
>   American States's general assembly in Fort
>   Lauderdale. He adding that the situation "was
>   worrisome."
>
>Noriega had no hard facts to back up his claim -
>something even the staunchly anti-Chávez Herald
>acknowledged - and Venezuela issued an effective
>rebuttal (quoted, here, below the fold), but I can
>translate for you what Noriega was really trying to
>say: Noriega is angry that the Bolivian Armed Forces
>has refused to violently put down the demonstrators,
>and he blames that on the example Chávez has set for a
>pro-people, non-repressive, military in Venezuela...
>which has more and more admirers among military brass
>in other countries.
>
>The Herald continued:
>
>   In reply, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Alí Rodríguez
>   "indignantly" denied allegations circulated by
>   U.S. officials for several months that his
>   government has provided financial assistance to one
>   of the leaders of the Bolivian opposition, Evo
>   Morales.
>
>   Asked about Noriega's comments, Rodríguez said,
>   "It seems that he [Noriega] goes around seeking to
>   throw fuel on the fire" and added that diplomats
>   should try to put out fires, not fuel their flames.
>
>   "The problems in Bolivia are problems that belong
>   to Bolivia and it is up to the Bolivians to solve
>   them," Rodríguez said. "Venezuela is scrupulously
>   respectful of the sovereignty of all countries."
>   Bolivian government officials and Western diplomats
>   in the region have told the Herald that while the
>   allegations of Chávez financial aid to Morales are
>   widespread, there's been no hard evidence to
>   support the charges.
>
>In a combined wire from the French and German press
>agencies, Mexico's daily La Jornada filled in the
>blanks this morning.
>
>Under fire to provide proof of Noriega's bombastic
>claim, the U.S. Department of State put out a statement
>later in the day:
>
>   At the end of the afternoon, the State Department
>   distributed press releases to justify its
>   accusation. Among them was an interview published
>   by the conservative Argentine daily La Nación last
>   May 16, titled: "Evo Morales: We Want to Join with
>   Fidel and Chávez."
>
>   They also distributed wire reports that announced
>   that Morales had invited Chavez to Bolivia, or that
>   (Morales' Movement Toward Socialism party backed
>   President Chavez."
>
>These are hardly proofs of anything, not like, say,
>Julio Mamani Conde's report yesterday about the United
>States' meddling role in Bolivian affairs this week...
>And certainly not on the scale of the hard evidence,
>based on the U.S. government's own unclassified
>documents, that the U.S. had directly meddled fomenting
>unrest in Venezuela!
>
>That said, I think Roger Noriega has a point, although
>his logic is convoluted. Let me explain:
>
>According to well placed sources in La Paz, yesterday,
>prior to the resignation of Bolivia's president, heir
>apparent to the Bolivian throne, Congressional leader
>Hormando Vaca Diez, had gone to Bolivia's military
>brass with a plan already written for how the military
>will declare martial law and ruthlessly stamp out the
>social movements when Vaca Diez becomes president. (Who
>wrote that plan, Mr. Noriega?).
>
>But the Bolivian generals told Vaca Diez to pound sand:
>They said, according to our sources, that they were
>tired of being the villains of history, causing coup
>after coup, massacring their own people. (This - and
>perhaps copious amounts of alcohol - explains Vaca
>Diez's crestfallen voice during his Monday night press
>conference, heard around the world via Radio Erbol.)
>
>US Ambassador Roger Noriega is red-faced angry that the
>Bolivian military won't get to work assassinating Evo
>Morales, Felipe Quispe, Oscar Olivera, the entire city
>of El Alto, and Authentic Journalists who are covering
>the story. And Noriega blames Chavez!
>
>Noriega blames Chavez because Chavez - a military
>soldier admired by many just like him across the
>hemisphere - has set the gold standard of how to put an
>Armed Forces to work on behalf of the people instead of
>against them. And simply by surviving the coup attempts
>against him, and by continuing his kinder-gentler non-
>repressive military model, Chavez has showed by example
>that Latin American military organizations need not be
>repressors as they have historically been.
>
>That is why, kind readers, Noriega and Washington blame
>Chavez: not because of any evidence of direct
>involvement, but because the Bolivian military is
>balking (so far) at murdering its own people. Damn
>Chavez! Let one Latin American president reform his
>military and before ya know it, others are gonna wanna
>do the same! And then democracy breaks out all over the
>place, and what is a decaying Empire to do?
>
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Paul Etxeberri

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