Foreign Correspondence

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Venezuelans against Carib War Games

Caracas, 12 abr (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan groups announced on Wednesday a protest over the UN military presence in the Caribbean and especially a military exercise that will mobilize more than 6,500 marines.


Commander William Izarra, former Venezuelan deputy foreign minister, considered that military operations are trying to threaten the progressive governments of the region.



"I think this is an exercise to threaten, a demonstration of force to generate fear in Latin American progressive governments," he said.



Izarra highlighted that the US General of the Southern Command Bantz Craddock, has stated several times that the Government of the President Hugo Chavez cannot be tolerated in Washington.



The demonstration includes a convoy in the south of Venezuela and an anti-imperialist encampment to condemn the US pressures against Venezuela and the progressives' countries of the region.



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