tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36038482010-04-09T15:06:34.747-07:00War on VenezuelaNews about America's war on VenezuelaLorenzonoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-72277792639892978732010-02-26T15:18:00.001-08:002010-04-09T15:06:05.033-07:00THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1153435595720284102006-07-20T15:41:00.000-07:002006-07-20T15:46:35.776-07:00U.S. Stance Against Venezuela Has Dangers(Nick Wadhams, Forbes.com, July 19, 2006)The United States is lobbying hard to block Venezuela's bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, fearful that Hugo Chavez, its fiercely anti-American president, will disrupt the body as it confronts hot issues such as Iran and Sudan. . . . But interviews with some 15 diplomats of member states reveal substantialLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1150249984264366252006-06-13T18:45:00.000-07:002006-06-13T18:55:31.780-07:00Greg Palast Uncovers the 'Armed Madhouse' of the Bush ReignI was able to obtain a document. That's why we have all these illustrations in the book - because I want people to actually see these things. I got a document from inside the Department of Energy, which says that Venezuela - in other words, Hugo Chavez - has more oil than Saudi Arabia, and that's a real shake-up. . . . That's a disaster Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1148572987560873342006-05-25T08:54:00.000-07:002006-05-25T09:03:07.590-07:00Assassination Teams Begin Targeting Venezuela President(Sorcha Faal, 23 May 2006)While American propaganda has successfully diverted their citizens attention towards Iran and the Middle East, Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the Military Leaders of the United States have this week authorized the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and whom the US Army has Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1148525198247363022006-05-24T19:26:00.000-07:002006-05-24T19:47:10.570-07:00New Estimate of Venezuela's Total Oil Reserves Makes It the Grandest of Grandest Prizes for US(Stephen Lendman, OpEdNews.com, 23 May 2006)I just finished reading an important new book the author's publisher sent me, which I'll shortly be reviewing for publication. The book is investigative journalist (and in his words "forensic economist") Greg Palast's latest foray into exposing the hidden from Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1146151959979004962006-04-27T08:30:00.000-07:002006-04-27T08:32:39.993-07:00Chavez Proposes Nation of Republics(Prensa Latina, April 22, 2006)After its withdrawal from the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), Venezuela steps up its role in the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) as a step towards a South American Union. . . . While ratifying his country´s leaving of CAN for being ineffective after the signing of free trade agreements with the US by some of its members, Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1145659062098154482006-04-21T15:32:00.000-07:002006-04-21T15:37:42.110-07:00Why Bush is Afraid of Chavez(Ted Rall, The Japan Times, April 18, 2006)In their desperate frenzy to destroy Chavez, U.S. state-controlled media is resorting to some of the most transparently and hilariously hypocritical talking points ever. In the April 4 New York Times Juan Forero repeated the trope that Chavez's use of oil revenues is unfair--even cheating somehow: "With Venezuela's oil Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1141602644099134502006-03-05T15:43:00.000-08:002006-03-05T15:50:44.110-08:00Chavez prepares his people's army to confront US(Sophie Arie, Telegraph, 04/03/2006)Venezuela begins training a vast army of civilian reserves today to fight off the attack its Left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, says the United States is plotting against it. . . . The oil-rich state aims to teach up to two million volunteers, from the unemployed to office workers, shop assistants and housewives, Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1139505385590646592006-02-09T09:05:00.000-08:002006-02-09T09:23:24.116-08:00U.S. threats to Venezuela's revolution escalate(W. T. Whitney Jr., People's Weekly World, 02-07-06)Aggressive maneuvers against Venezuela from the Bush government have reached new heights. Here are some indicators. . . . On Jan. 27, the Venezuelan government expelled naval attache John Correa, stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Security personnel had infiltrated the group of Venezuelan junior Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1137441213866955012006-01-16T11:48:00.000-08:002006-01-16T11:53:33.876-08:00Catholic Church Spreads Lies About Chavez(BBC NEWS, 16 January, 2006)Venezuela's leader has demanded an explanation after a Roman Catholic cardinal said that the country was becoming a dictatorship. . . . President Hugo Chavez described the Church's behaviour as "undoubtedly a provocation" and demanded a full apology for the "insults" and "hate". . . . He said there was a conspiracy in Rome and Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1137266915612185072006-01-14T11:08:00.000-08:002006-01-14T11:28:35.646-08:00Bravo Belafonte! ... calls Bush 'terrorist' praises ChavezAmerican singer and activist Harry Belafonte called U.S. President George W. Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. . . . Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including actor Danny Glover, Princeton University scholar Cornel WestLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1133119010411912692005-11-27T11:16:00.000-08:002005-11-27T11:16:54.036-08:00Chavez offers subsidised heating oil for poor in US cities
(The Hindu, November 26, 2005)
Venezuelean President Hugo Chavez, has ordered a petroleum company owned by his country to supply more than 12 million gallons of heating oil to the poor in US cities of New York and Boston at 40 per cent below market prices. . . . The first delivery of Chavez's shipment has already reached a home in Boston Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1132602510263209612005-11-21T11:48:00.000-08:002005-11-21T11:48:30.280-08:00CIA and FBI Plan to Assassinate Hugo Chavez Uncovered
(Kurt Nimmo, Alternative Press Review, November 11, 2005)
Now we have a bit more evidence the CIA and the FBI connived with reactionary elements to not only briefly overthrow Chávez, abolish the constitution and the National Assembly, but later assassinate the Venezuelan State Prosecutor, Danilo Anderson. He was killed by a car bomb in CaracasLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1132109838020439312005-11-15T18:57:00.000-08:002005-11-15T18:57:18.046-08:00Chavez and Fox dispute escalates
(BBC NEWS, 15 November 2005)
The Mexican President, Vicente Fox, has threatened to cut off all diplomatic ties with Venezuela. . . . He said he would take that action if Venezuela's leader, Hugo Chavez, kept on making comments about him or Mexico. . . . Earlier, both countries withdrew their ambassadors from each other's capitals after a row over free trade Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1131122284795097182005-11-04T08:38:00.000-08:002005-11-04T08:38:04.816-08:00Venezuelans practice repelling U.S. invasion
(Associated Press, November 4, 2005)
Camouflaged soldiers jumped from boats into the surf and waded ashore in a mock assault Thursday, the latest in a series of Venezuelan military exercises preparing for a U.S. invasion that President Hugo Chavez warns could come. . . . Chavez, who accuses the Bush administration of trying to overthrow him, says closeLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1129300602798677852005-10-14T07:36:00.000-07:002005-10-14T07:36:44.390-07:00Chavez ousts "Christian Colonialists"
(Aljazeera.Net, 13 October 2005)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered a US-based Christian missionary group working with indigenous tribes to leave the country, accusing the organisation of imperialist infiltration and links to the CIA. . . . Chavez said missionaries of the New Tribes Mission, based in Sanford, Florida, were no longer welcome. He Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1126707659381944792005-09-14T07:20:00.000-07:002005-09-14T07:20:59.413-07:00Chavez says US meddling in UN visit
(Reuters, Sep 13, 2005)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday accused the U.S. government of trying to interfere in his visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York by denying visas to his personal security detail and his medical team. . . . Chavez, an ally of Communist Cuba who frequently accuses Washington of trying to assassinate him, said he was Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1125942448122681722005-09-05T10:44:00.000-07:002005-09-05T10:49:49.446-07:00Chavez: U.S., NATO planning an attack on Venezuela(The Miami Herald, September 4, 2005)Venezuela has uncovered plans for a NATO U.S.-led invasion and is preparing to defend the country against invading forces if necessary, President Hugo Chavez said . . . Chavez made the comments during an interview with CNN. It was not clear when the interview was to be aired. . . . "We discovered through Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1125679472022537472005-09-02T09:44:00.000-07:002005-09-02T09:44:32.040-07:00Venezuela 'targets private banks'
(BBC NEWS, 2 September 2005)
The Venezuelan government is reported to be planning to insist that all private banks appoint two state representatives to their board. . . . Such a move is likely to be part of the country's forthcoming new banking law, according to the UK's Financial Times. . . . A continuation of left-wing President Hugo Chavez's aim to create "Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1125267702404113592005-08-28T15:21:00.000-07:002005-08-28T15:21:42.556-07:00Americas Rev. Jackson defends Venezuelan head
(BBC NEWS, 28 August 2005)
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has offered his support to the Venezuelan president after a call by a US TV evangelist for his assassination. . . . Rev Jackson denounced Pat Robertson's suggestion that US agents should kill Hugo Chavez as "immoral" and "illegal". . . . The two countries should work out their differencesLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1124836094477327842005-08-23T15:28:00.000-07:002005-08-23T15:28:14.500-07:00Venezuela Says Robertson Call to Kill Chavez Criminal
(Bloomberg, Aug. 23)
Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said that calls by U.S. television evangelist Pat Robertson to kill Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez were "criminal." U.S. Senators Norm Coleman and Mel Martinez called Robertson's statements "irresponsible" and "incredibly stupid." . . . "It's the height of hypocrisy for the Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1123508566352963312005-08-08T06:42:00.000-07:002005-08-08T06:42:46.383-07:00Chavez says US drug agents spying
(BBC NEWS, 7 August 2005)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the US Drug Enforcement Administration of using its agents to spy on the South American country. . . . Mr Chavez said his country would sever its ties with the DEA and no longer collaborate with the US. . . . Last month Venezuelan prosecutors opened an investigation into the activities of DEA.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1121261353365614812005-07-13T06:29:00.000-07:002005-07-13T06:29:13.383-07:00Venezuela Accuses US of Interfering in Internal Legal Proceedings
(Jonah Gindin, Venezuelanalysis.com, July 11, 2005)
Venezuela's embassy in Washington, D.C., released a communique this weekend, responding to US criticism of a court case against Venezuelan NGO Súmate. In a separate statement, Venezuelan Attorney General Isaías Rodriguez also released a statement criticizing both the State Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1121108694021525212005-07-11T12:04:00.000-07:002005-07-11T12:04:54.056-07:00U.S. Government funding fascist politicians in Venezuela
(Al Giordano, Narconews.com, Jul 9th, 2005)
As court proceedings begin this month against four Venezuelans from an election campaign group that accepted donations from a foreign government - something that is indisputably a federal crime under both U.S. and Venezuelan law - it’s no surprise that members of the Bush administration in Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3603848.post-1120781158467607222005-07-07T17:05:00.000-07:002005-07-07T17:05:58.506-07:00Is U.S. Envoy setting up Venezuela for invasion?
(Associated Press, July 3, 2005)
A decline in cooperation between Venezuelan and U.S. authorities has weakened efforts to fight terrorism and drug trafficking, the U.S. ambassador to the South American country said. . . . "On the issue of illegal drugs, we have a situation where we have a reduction in cooperation between some police forces," U.S. Lorenzonoreply@blogger.com