U.S. General Says Venezuela is a Danger for the Hemisphere
Also Venezuela cancelled their Independence Day Parade due to the fear of assasination concerns today, plus I heard on Newsworld International just a few minutes ago that quite a few countries in S. America, Cuba , Central America etal: are joining forces to be able to arrest , Kissenger, GWB, and quite a few others , this is not a new story but a new attempt with many more countries involved. I will try to find something in print tomorrow .
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2005
By: Sarah Wagner – Venezuelanalysis.com
Chief of the U.S. Southern Command, General John Craddock. Credit: El Nuevo Herald Caracas, Venezuela, June 14, 2005—Yesterday, in an interview with the Miami daily El Nuevo Herald, General John Craddock, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, warned of the malice of “radical populism” and “transnational threats” in Latin America and singled out Venezuela’s influence among its neighbors as “generating a destabilizing situation that represents a danger for the hemisphere.” Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information responded that Venezuela’s government believes that the U.S. government is a destabilizing force in the world.
Echoing previous previous comments made by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Craddock contended that the “threat to democracy in Venezuela” is very real. Democracy “is being changed in Venezuela in order to eliminate the separation of powers, the process of control and equilibrium. I believe that there is a danger for Venezuela’s neighbors if this process is exported, and if they are trying to influence their neighbors or other countries in the region, this can become a destabilizing situation that would not be of help for the region... I believe that the neighbors tend to be concerned.”
The interview with Craddock took place hours after he presided over the graduation ceremony of twenty-two Latin America officers in the Institute for Cooperation for Hemispheric Security (WHISEC), previously known as the School for the Americas, located in Fort Benning, Georgia. The School for the Americas trained many of the most brutal military units in Latin America, which have been responsible for tens of thousands of murders, disappearances, torture, and rapes.
Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information Andrés Izarra dismissed Craddock’s comments as a continuation of the “same song that has been repeated in the U.S. Department of State and that this policy has produced so many failures recently.” Izarra said that it is U.S. foreign policies that are the “most destabilizing in the world,” because of its invasions of countries and for violating their human rights.
General Jorge Luis García Carneiro, the Venezuelan Defense Minister also commented on the interview, affirming that Venezuela no longer pays heed to these types of comments because, “this has been the policy of the Bush Administration.”
As head of the U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Craddock is in charge of all U.S. Armed Forces military and intelligence operations in Latin America. With “very few exceptions,” such as Cuba and Venezuela, the General affirmed, the Southern Command maintains good relations with their Latin American counterparts. Highlighting the relationship with Central America and Brazil as “magnificent” and “excellent” respectively, Craddock stated that “the greater the contact, the more opportunity we will have to learn how they operate, and more opportunity there will be that they understand how we operate, how we educate and train our military forces.”
Here it is .. Niteowl just posted it on Zeeve's ... things are heating up, imho, everywhere against us, gosh its so nice to be making so many alliances and friends across the earth , really makes me sleep well .
AGAINST TERRORISM, IN DEFENSE OF HUMANITY Cubanow.net
Cubanow.- "Mandated by the International Meeting Against Terrorism, For Truth and Justice, the undersigned, members of the In Defense of Humanity network of networks, have reviewed the denunciations, proposals and reports submitted by the 681 participants from 67 countries who met in Havana on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of June 2005, and make a call to create a movement against terrorism that will denounce and condemn the age of terror spawned by the United States in our hemisphere, affecting us especially since the second half of the 20th century.
The moving testimonies of victims and their relatives and the well-documented reports of respected jurists, officials, journalists, economists and other intellectuals committed to the defense of human rights, allowed us to reconstruct the history of terrorist actions, committed with impunity, which numerous US administrations perpetrated in Southern Cone countries, Central America and the Caribbean, in complicity with Latin American and Caribbean governments, armies and police forces.
Public opinion has a right to know the truth. Those who wage a genocidal war in the name of the struggle against terrorism must not at the same time be allowed to cover up their systematic use of the most perverse of terrorist methods against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. There is an urgent need to break the silence which shrouds the past, present and foreseeable future of this criminal US policy.
It is impossible to silence the intimate, proven and documented ties of international terrorists to the US White House, State Department and intelligence services. The atrocious consequences of Operation Condor, that International of Terror, as Nobel Peace Prize recipient Adolfo Perez Esquivel called it, must not be forgotten; nor those of the dirty war waged in Central America and the Caribbean. The crimes of those who have worked for the CIA and of high officials of successive US administrations cannot go unpunished.
George H. W. Bush, father of the current US president, cannot avoid being held accountable, as ex CIA director, for the creation, with these Cuban born terrorists, of CORU, an organization responsible for the assassination of former Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs Orlando Letelier and the murder of US citizen Ronnie Moffit, the midair bombing of a civilian plane with 73 people on board and other crimes against humanity. The same terrorists collaborated with Pinochet’s DINA and other Southern Cone military dictatorship repressive bodies, in the planning and execution of Operation Condor. Also, then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger cannot avoid assuming his responsibility in these genocidal crimes.
The close ties of Florida’s current governor, Jeb Bush, to the Cuban American National Foundation and other terrorist groups based in Miami must be denounced. These organizations made a decisive contribution to the fraudulent electoral victory of his brother in the 2000 presidential elections; they financed terrorist actions against Cuban tourist facilities, actions Posada Carriles admitted to in a New York Times interview and on American television; the latter’s “pardon” in Panama and his stay in the United States during the past two months; they organized and financed his escape from a Venezuelan prison and coordinated his work with the White House in the Iran-Contra project and the US-supported state-terrorist and dirty war strategies in Central America. Today more than ever, we must denounce this long-standing network of complicity which sustains the impunity and the protection illegally granted by US authorities to Luis Posada Carriles, ignoring the well-founded extradition request submitted by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It is the same protection they want to grant Orlando Bosch, securing impunity for his crimes.
We must reveal the terrorist nature of the alliance that, against the interests of the American people, the Bush dynasty has established along with the Miami Mafia and which offends the memory of those who perished on September 11, 2001, and in the name of a false war on terrorism. The American people, who mobilized against nazi-fascism during World War II and contributed decisively to ending the Vietnam War, who supported the civil rights struggle and the return of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, must be informed, through all the mass media, about its government’s criminal nature.
The terrorists’ impunity cannot continue. No crime can go unpunished.
For all of these reasons, we have decided to initiate an international movement against terrorism based on the In Defense of Humanity network of networks, and through the following actions:
1. Establish an Anti-Terrorist Observatory for the hemisphere.
2. Create a data base with information on these genocidal policies.
3. Prepare and publish an Encyclopedia on Terrorism in the hemisphere, to include the essential concepts and categories, the background of the genocidal agents, repressive bodies and terrorists involved, a chronology of these criminal actions and a description of the national and supra-national components of the terror apparatus.
4. Create a collection of works on historical memory of terrorism.
5. Create the , to be made up of prestigious jurists, intellectuals and human rights activists, to try Henry Kissinger, George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeb Bush, George Walker Bush and the following current or ex State Department or National Security Council officials: Oliver North, John Dimitri Negroponte and Otto Reich, for setting in motion and encouraging state terrorism in Latin America, the Caribbean and even the United States, in flagrant violation of international and US law, putting in danger the lives of their own citizens; for recruiting, training and financing terrorist groups and for the protection they have given and continue to give Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles and other renowned perpetrators of criminal acts that have claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people.
The work of this court will be organized in four commissions: for the gathering of testimonies and documentary evidence; for research and analysis; for technical and legal matters and for information and publishing.
This is the commitment assumed in Havana: to defend ethical values and dignity, in defiance of brute force and terror, and to exercise law and justice. All voices must be raised against these crimes. These denunciations will continue until the murderers are tried and convicted. Silence only benefits terrorists and those who protect them. We shall not rest until the path is cleared for truth. As Fidel (Castro) has said: “Humanity yearns for justice.”
Signed in Havana on June 10th:
Francois Houtart (Belgium); Isabel Parra (Chile); James Cockcroft (USA); Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, Victor Flores Olea, Gilberto Lopez y Rivas and Juan Bañuelo (Mexico); Thiago de Mello, Beto Almeida, Roberto Amaral, Beth Carvalho, Maria Ciavatta and Marilia Guimaraes (Brazil); Roberto Fernandez Retamar (Cuba); Marcos Roitman, Manuel Talens, Jaime Losada, Alicia Hermida and Carlos Tena (Spain); Miguel Bonasso, Stella Calloni, Ana de Skalon, Tristan Bauer, Atilio Boron, Nestor Kohan, Carlos Ruta, Luciano Alzaga and Marcelo Cafiso (Argentina); Hernando Calvo Ospina (Colombia); Jorge Sanjines (Bolivia); Antonio Pecci (Paraguay); Raul Perez Torres (Ecuador); Gennaro Carotenuto (Italy); Tarik Souki (Venezuela); Samuel Blixen (Uruguay)."
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