Washington
supporting subversion
in Venezuela in the run-up to the presidential
elections
CARACAS, August 27.—The detection of detonators
and cables used for explosives in a cargo for the
U.S. embassy is heightening suspicions that that
country’s intervention in Venezuela is moving beyond
rhetoric and financing the opposition.
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Interior
Minister Jesse Chacón
exposed the incident. |
According to PL; the dispatch was found on August
23 in an air freight of 20 crates to be entered in
the country via diplomatic exemption.
The incident casts serious concerns as to
possible White House assistance to violent sectors
of the opposition, at a point when some sources have
warned of a subversive plot in the context of the
presidential elections in December.
Curiously, the freight was detected a few days
after the escape from military prison of four
conspirators, some of them officers linked to the
2004 entry into Venezuela of Colombian
paramilitaries who, according to investigations, had
instructions to commit sabotage operations and
assassinate political figures, including President
Hugo Chávez.
Jesse Chacón, the Venezuelan minister of justice
and the interior, stated that a crate supposedly
containing material for the Armed Forces, which
arrived on the same flight, was taken out of the
airport without passing through the arms control
authorities.
