CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Ch�vez
By Kurt Nimmo
November 20, 2005
Alternative Press Review
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been
built primarily through economic manipulation. ?How do we know that
the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Ch�vez?? asked
historian William Blum in 2002. ?Same way we know that the sun will
rise tomorrow morning. That?s what it?s always done and there?s no
reason to think that tomorrow morning will be any different.?
Now we have a bit more evidence the CIA and the FBI connived with
reactionary elements to not only briefly overthrow Ch�vez, abolish the
constitution and the National Assembly, but later assassinate the
Venezuelan State Prosecutor, Danilo Anderson. He was killed by a car
bomb in Caracas on November 18, 2004, while investigating those who
were behind the coup. Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas, a member of
Colombia?s right wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense
Forces of Colombia, claims he was in charge of logistics for the plot
to kill Danilo Anderson. Vasquez De Armas told the Attorney General?s
office that those planning the killing, ?all discussed the plan with
the help of the FBI and CIA.?
And the sun will rise tomorrow.
?According to the Attorney General, Vasquez De Armas said that during a
meeting in Darien, Panama, on September 4 and 6, 2003, an FBI Officer
called ?Pesquera? and a CIA agent called ?Morrinson,? attended a
meeting along with two of the plot?s alleged organizers, Patricia Poleo
and Salvador Romani, as well as two of those who actually did the
killing, Rolando and Otoniel Guevera,? writes Alessandro Parma. ?An
official from the Attorney General?s office, speaking on behalf of
Vasquez De Armas, said that in Panama the FBI and the plotting
Venezuelans agreed, ?to take out Chavez and the Government.? He said,
?the meeting?s final objective was to kill President Chavez and the
Attorney General.??
None of this is new or particularly revelatory. Steve Kangas writes:
"CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American
business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically
elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to
conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth,
nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect
workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American
business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition.
First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the
military), and offers them a deal: ?We?ll put you in power if you
maintain a favorable business climate for us.? The Agency then hires,
trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government
(usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda,
stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual
intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media,
infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping,
beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and
even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which
installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator?s security
apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business,
using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be
?communists,? but almost always they are just peasants, liberals,
moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of
free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow."
Examples include the coup to overthrow the democratically elected
leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, the ouster of democratically elected
Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala, one coup per year (between 1957-1973) in
Laos, the installation of the murderous ?Papa Doc? Duvalier in Haiti,
the assassination of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, the
overthrow of Jose Velasco in Ecuador, the assassination of the
democratically elected Patrice Lumumba in the Congo (later Zaire), the
overthrow of the democratically elected Juan Bosch in the Dominican
Republic, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of
Joao Goulart in Brazil, the overthrow of the democratically elected
Sukarno government in Indonesia, a military coup in Greece designed to
install the ?reign of the colonels? (when the Greek ambassador
complained about CIA plans for Cypress, Johnson told him: ?F? your
parliament and your constitution?), the overthrow of the popular Prince
Sahounek in Cambodia, the overthrow of Juan Torres in Bolivia, the
overthrow and assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile, the
assassination of archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador, and dozens of
other incidents rarely if ever taught in American school history
lessons.
As John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man), as a
former respected member of the international banking community and
National Security Agency economist, told Amy Goodman: ?Basically what
we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the
American empire. To bring?to create situations where as many resources
as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our
government?. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world,
has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through
cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life,
through the economic hit men.? Perkins? job was ?deal-making?:
It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than
they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of the loan?let?s say
a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador?and this country
would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S.
company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure?a Halliburton
or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and
build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would
basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those
countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately
with this amazing debt that they couldn?t possibly repay. A country
today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just
to pay down its debt. And it really can?t do it. So, we literally have
them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and
say, ?Look, you?re not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil
companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.? And
today we?re going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing
Ecuador to give them to us because they?ve accumulated all this debt.
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States,
the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they
basically become our servants, our slaves. It?s an empire. There?s no
two ways about it. It?s a huge empire. It?s been extremely successful.
Most of the money for these loans, according to Perkins, is provided by
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the two premier
neolib loan sharking operations (it is important to note that the
Straussian neocon, Paul Wolfowitz, is now president of the World Bank,
thus demonstrating how closely related the neocons and traditional
neolibs are).
If the loan sharks are unable to steal natural resources (oil,
minerals, rainforests, water) as a condition of repaying this immense
debt, ?the next step is what we call the jackals.?
Jackals are CIA-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup
or revolution. If that doesn?t work, they perform assassinations?or try
to. In the case of Iraq, they weren?t able to get through to Saddam
Hussein? His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn?t
get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit
men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and
women, who are sent in to die and kill, which is what we?ve obviously
done in Iraq.
Hugo Ch�vez is now between the assassination point of this neolib plan
and invasion, when ?our young men and women? will be ?sent in to die
and kill? Venezuelan peasants the same way they are now killing poor
Iraqis. Of course, it remains to be seen if Bush can actually invade
Venezuela?the neocon roster is teeming with targets, from Syria to
Iran?and so we can expect the Bushcons and their jackals to continue
efforts to assassinate Ch�vez, as Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas reveals
the CIA and the FBI are attempting to do, with little success. One
notable failure by the jackals is Fidel Castro in Cuba, who experienced
numerous assassination attempts and CIA counterinsurgency specialist
Edward Lansdale?s Operation Mongoose (consisting of sabotage and
political warfare), also known as the ??Cuba Project.??
As Blum notes, we know all of this is happening, same as we know the
sun will come up tomorrow.
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