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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- Otto Reich: Mastermind of the April 2002 coup d'etat against President Hugo Chavezhttp://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=21723 IAR's Rodrigo Guevara reports: Otto Reich, a political thug eternally implicated in secret CIA networks to overthrow President Hugo Chavez, and outgoing Special Envoy to Latin America for the Bush administration, recently told the BBC that the White House would like to see the Venezuelan President out of power. As the man responsible for State Department Latin American policy, Otto Reich was the lead proponent of the April 2002 coup d'etat that briefly ousted Chavez. Reich collaborated with the Miami Cuban-American mafia and the coup-leading media mogul Gustavo Cisneros. Now, they wish history to repeat itself. When the dictator Pedro Carmona announced his "resignation" after the failed coup, he said that he would assume "full responsibility," assuring that he had acted "without premeditation or conspiracy." However, when the Vice President at that time, Diosdado Cabello, showed the press the ceremonial presidential sash abandoned by the dictator with the stamp of a Madrid factory, this was but one indication that the coup wasn't in response to the April 11 demonstrations, but rather that it had been premeditated and calculated. But, the operation that put the puppet Pedro Carmona in Miraflores Palace as "President" wasn't planned in Madrid, but in Washington. According to a report published by the Voltaire Network in October 2002 ("Stay-behind: Failure of the Operation in Venezuela"), the decision to overthrow Hugo Chavez formed part of the "World Attack Matrix" doctrine proposed by former CIA director George Tenet on September 15, 2001 and supported by President George W. Bush. The CIA was thinking of overthrowing or assassinating Chavez. The operation was rushed because of a call by Iran and Iraq to impose an oil embargo on all of the nations that supported the actions of Ariel Sharon in his occupation of Palestinian territories. Thus, the CIA planned the coup d'etat to kill two birds with one stone: It would liquidate Chavez and paralyze OPEC, which was led by Venezuela at that time. The planning of these operations was supervised in the White House National Security Council by Elliot Abrams, distinguished member of the pro-Israeli lobby (whose most visible members are the Pentagon hawks Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith) and former Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Reagan. At Abrams' side in planning the coup was Otto Reich, Subsecretary of State for Latin American Affairs, who was US ambassador to Venezuela from 1986 to 1989, and therefore "knew the terrain." Otto Reich and Elliot Abrams were also implicated in drug trafficking organized by the US State Department and the CIA to finance the Nicaragua contras, whose operative head was Colonel Oliver North. When the Congressional investigations into the Iran-Contra affair made it inconvenient for Otto Reich to remain in Washington, the Reagan administration named him ambassador to Venezuela. In Caracas, Reich contacted the Cisneros clan, a powerful Venezuelan family of Cuban origin, whose patriarch, Gustavo Cisneros, through the private TV channel Venevision, led the media coup against Hugo Chavez in April 2002. As reported in IBLNEWS, an article in the April 29, 2002 issue of Newsweek ("Hugo's Close Call") points out that Otto Reich, who then had chief responsibility for Latin America in the State Department, admitted that he had spoken with Cisneros "two or three times" during the April 11 coup, but only to ask for information about what was happening. According to Newsweek, Cisneros warned Reich in an April 13 phone call that a group of enraged Chavez partisans had surrounded the Venevision building. Newsweek affirmed that Gustavo Cisneros was at the "apex" of the plot, and that Venezuelan businessman Pedro Carmona "was seen leaving Cisneros' office" on April 12, before swearing in as provisional president at Miraflores Palace after the coup against the constitutional government of Hugo Chavez. Uniting Cisneros and Reich were their ties to the Cuban-American mafia operating in South Miami, their close relationship with Florida governor Jeb Bush, and their privileged relationship with the brains behind the Iran-Contra plan, former US president George Bush (father of W, the current US president), whom many consider to be the true "shadow president" of the United States. Pedro Carmona's selection as puppet president of the brief dictatorial regime was made in consultation with the family of Venezuelan ex-president Rafael Caldera and Gustavo Cisneros. Pedro Carmona, a man of malleable profile and little character, would have permitted Cisneros to govern Venezuela from the shadows. According to a report written by Omar Fazio and published in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada ("Otto Reich, expert in undercover operations, according to the US Congress", April 30, 2003), when he was US ambassador in Caracas, Reich used to organize meetings with Hubert Matos and Carlos Alberto Montaner when both were seeking to establish a counterrevolutionary alternative to Jorge Mas Canosa's National Cuban American Foundation (FNCA) in Miami. At one of those private meetings, Reich assured that Washington "would contribute to the cause through increased financial aid to anti-Castro organizations based in Venezuela." According to Cuban investigator Reinaldo Taladrid, the same conspirators financed by Reich at the end of the 1980's in Venezuela participated in the 2002 coup d'etat against President Hugo Chavez. The connection between the FNCA and the April 11 coup leaders in Caracas was pointed out by notes and testimonies appearing in the US press. In Washington, Abrams and Reich received many Venezuelan leaders in the weeks preceding the coup, among them Elias Santana (of Queremos Elegir) and CTV union boss Carlos Ortega, both involved with the FNCA. In an article appearing in Miami's El Nuevo Herald newspaper, FNCA executive director Joe Garcia was quoted as recognizing that he had met with and "aided" leaders opposed to Chavez. The newspaper also published the testimony of Cuban-Venezuelan ex-banker Orlando Castro: "The hands of the FNCA were all over the scheme to remove Chavez from power, as they were in the Florida elections leading to the (George W.) Bush triumph." According to the Herald, Cuban exile activists "from the Junta Patriotica Cubana to the Unidad Cubana, the Vigilia Mambisa, the F-4 Commandos, and the most important TV and radio broadcasters in the city" gave to the anti-Chavez leaders "resources, experience, strategies, logistical support, lobbying, and contacts throughout the United States," to promote opposition maneuvers aimed at destabilizing the President of Venezuela. During the petroleum strike of December 2002 to January 2003 aimed at toppling Chavez, some of the "resources" provided by radical Cuban exile groups were channeled through bank accounts at the Transatlantic Bank and Ocean Bank in Miami. Ocean Bank is known for its connections to the April 2002 coup. According to journalist Lilliam Oviedo, "the Venezuelan conspirators. received resources through Ocean Bank. One of its principal shareholders is Mario del Valle, husband of Clara del Valle, vice president of the FNCA" ("The far right's tricks," El Nacional, May 5, 2002). The operation to manipulate the mass media was designed by Abrams and Reich, and the structure was provided by Cisneros, who has majority ownership of AOL Latin America, DirecTV Latin America (300 channels of radio and television in 28 countries), and Univision (US Hispanic TV chain). During the coup d'etat, these stations broadcasted false information saying that Hugo Chavez had ordered police to fire on opposition demonstrators. In reality, the victims were assassinated by the Caracas city police, trained in the US by an FBI unit. >From the State Department, Reich gave his immediate support to Carmona and the military coup leaders. To prepare the ground and public opinion, and at the same time open the possibility of direct US military intervention, $200,000 were deposited in Miami bank accounts in the names of Admiral Carlos Molina and Colonel Pedro Soto. These were the two men who demanded the resignation of Hugo Chavez, accusing him of aiding the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrillas, a defamatory accusation that allowed the US to support the coup operations under the guise of the "War against Terrorism." But, Otto Reich committed an error that he later had to retract. The US government, through a disinformation campaign, spread the false rumor that four Cuban airplanes were stationed in Caracas during the April coup. Reich was also behind the media campaign financed by the FNCA against the energy pact between Venezuela and Cuba. High leaders in the Venezuelan state petroleum company PDVSA were invited to Miami by the FNCA, and were transported in a Folem airplane owned by Mas Santos. To finance opposition protests against Chavez, Elliot Abrams and Otto Reich resorted to black CIA accounts, principally the National Endowment for Democracy. Created in 1983 by Ronald Reagan, the NED was administered by Henry Kissinger and AFL-CIO union president Lane Kirkland. Now presided by Carl Gersham and administered by General Wesley Clark (former NATO supreme commander during the Kosovo War) and Frank Carlucci (former adjunct director of the CIA and now president of the Carlyle Group). The "selection" of Venezuelan military leaders to participate in the coup was done by Otto Reich, who administered the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in Fort Benning, Georgia, known in the past as the School of the Americas. This school offers professional training for Latin American military leaders, and during the 1970's, it taught Latin American dictators and officials who, under the fa�ade of "counterinsurgent warfare," received training in terror tactics and torture techniques. Translated by Philip Stinard En Espanol: Otto Reich: Planificador del golpe medi�tico contra Ch�vez IAR-Noticias (Rodrigo Guevara): Otto Reich, un hamp�n pol�tico eternamente implicado en las redes secretas de la CIA para derrocar a Ch�vez, y renunciante al cargo de enviado especial de Bush para Latinoam�rica, dijo a la BBC que a la Casa Blanca le gustar�a que el actual presidente de Venezuela fuera destituido. Como responsable de Am�rica Latina en el Departamento de Estado, Otto Reich fue el promotor principal del golpe de Estado que derroc� a Ch�vez por unas horas, en abril del 2002, en asociaci�n con la mafia cubano-americana de Miami y el grupo de golpistas medi�ticos liderado por Gustavo Cisneros. Hoy tratan de repetir la historia. Cuando el golpista Pedro Carmona anunci� su "renuncia" a la presidencia tras el fallido golpe de abril del 2002 en Venezuela, dijo que asum�a "toda la responsabilidad" asegurando que hab�a actuado "sin premeditaci�n ni conspiraci�n". Sin embargo, el entonces vicepresidente Diosdado Cabello, mostr� a la prensa la banda de ceremonia presidencial abandonada por el golpista con la marca de un fabricante madrile�o, lo que sirvi� a los bolivarianos para argumentar que el golpe de Estado no era una respuesta a las manifestaciones del 11 de abril, sino que todo hab�a sido premeditado y calculado. Pero la operaci�n golpista que hab�a terminado con el t�tere Pedro Carmona instalado como "Presidente" en el Palacio de Miraflores, no se plane� en Madrid sino en Washington. Seg�n un informe publicado en la Red Voltaire en octubre del 2002, la decisi�n de derrocar a Hugo Ch�vez formaba parte de la "Matriz del ataque Mundial", doctrina elaborada por George Tenet (director de la CIA) y avalada por el presidente George W. Bush el 15 de septiembre de 2001. La CIA pensaba en un derrocamiento o asesinato pol�tico de Ch�vez. El adelanto de las operaciones se debi� al llamado que formularon Ir�n e Irak para imponer un embargo petrolero a todas las naciones que apoyaran las acciones del gobierno de Ariel Sharon en su pol�tica de ocupaci�n de los territorios palestinos. De esta manera organizando el golpe de Estado en Caracas, la CIA, ayudando a su aliado Sharon en Medio Oriente, "mataba dos p�jaros de un tiro", de un lado, liquidaba a Ch�vez y por otro lado paralizaba a la OPEP, cuya secretar�a general era dirigida entonces por Venezuela. La planificaci�n de estas operaciones fue supervisada en el Consejo Nacional de Seguridad de la Casa Blanca por Elliot Abrams, integrante destacado del lobby pro-israel� (cuyas cabezas m�s visibles son los halcones Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz y Feith en el Pent�gono) y antiguo Secretario de Estado bajo las administraciones de Nixon y de Reagan. Al lado de Elliot Abrams, y como experto "conocedor del terreno", operaba en la planificaci�n del golpe contra Ch�vez, Otto Reich, Sub Secretario de Estado para Asuntos Latinoamericanos, que hab�a sido por tres a�os embajador de EEUU en Venezuela, desde 1986 a 1989. Otto Reich y Elliot Abrams estuvieron igualmente implicados en el tr�fico de drogas organizado por el Departamento de Estado norteamericano y la CIA para financiar a los contras de Nicaragua, cuya cabeza operativa era el coronel Oliver North. Cuando las investigaciones del Congreso de EEUU sobre el caso Ir�n-Contra tornaron inconveniente la presencia de Otto Reich en Washington, la administraci�n Reagan lo nombr� embajador en Venezuela. En Caracas se contact� con el clan Cisneros, poderoso grupo venezolano de origen cubano, cuyo jefe, Gustavo Cisneros, a trav�s del canal Venevisi�n, lider� el golpe medi�tico contra Hugo Ch�vez en abril del 2002. Seg�n IBLNEWS, el semanario Newsweek se�al� que Otto Reich, por entonces m�ximo responsable de Am�rica Latina en el Departamento de Estado, admiti� que hab�a hablado con Cisneros "dos o tres veces" durante la intentona golpista del 11 de abril, pero s�lo para buscar informaci�n sobre lo que estaba pasando. Seg�n el semanario, en una de esas llamadas, el s�bado 13, Cisneros advirti� a Reich que una multitud de enfurecidos partidarios de Ch�vez hab�a rodeado el edificio de su emisora de televisi�n, Venevisi�n. Newsweek afirm� que en "en el v�rtice" del complot estuvo Gustavo Cisneros, y que el empresario venezolano Pedro Carmona "fue visto salir de la oficina de Cisneros" antes de jurar en el Palacio de Gobierno, el viernes 12 de abril del 2002, como presidente provisional tras el golpe contra el gobierno constitucional de Hugo Ch�vez. A Cisneros y a Reich lo unen la com�n pertenencia de ambos a la mafia cubano-americana que opera en el sur de Miami, su estrecha relaci�n y amistad con el gobernador de La Florida, Jeb Bush, y su relaci�n privilegiada con el cerebro del plan Ir�n-Contras, el ex presidente norteamericano, George Bush (padre de W, el actual mandatario estadounidense) a quien muchos consideran como el verdadero "presidente en las sombras" de EEUU. La elecci�n de Pedro Carmona como presidente t�tere del gobierno golpista fue realizada en concertaci�n con la familia del ex presidente Rafael Caldera, y el grupo de Gustavo Cisneros. De perfil maleable y sin gran car�cter, Pedro Carmona deb�a permitir a Cisneros gobernar Venezuela desde las sombras. Seg�n un informe publicado en el diario La Jornada de M�xico, y firmado por Omar Fazio, en Caracas, y como embajador de EEUU, Reich organiz� reuniones con participaci�n de Hubert Matos y Carlos Alberto Montaner, cuando �stos buscaban establecer una v�a contrarrevolucionaria alterna a la de la Fundaci�n Nacional Cubano Americana (FNCA), de Jorge Mas Canosa (ya fallecido), con sede en Miami. En uno de esos encuentros privados, Reich asegur� que Washington "estaba dispuesto a contribuir a la causa mediante el incremento de la ayuda financiera a las organizaciones (anticastristas) radicadas en Venezuela". Seg�n el investigador cubano Reinaldo Taladrid, los mismos conspiradores financiados por Reich a finales de los a�os ochenta en Venezuela, participaron en el intento de golpe de Estado contra el presidente constitucional Hugo Ch�vez en 2002. La conexi�n de la Fundaci�n Nacional Cubano Americana con los golpistas del 11 de abril en Caracas fue se�alada oportunamente por notas y testimonios aparecidos en los medios estadounidenses. En los d�as previos al golpe del 11 de abril , la mano de Otto Reich (por entonces principal responsable de la pol�tica del Departamento de Estado en Latinoam�rica) estuvo presente en el complot de la FNCA para derrocar a Ch�vez. La participaci�n de la fundaci�n cubano-americana en el golpe del 11 de abril fue debidamente documentada en la prensa estadounidense. Abrams y Reich recibieron juntos en Washington a numerosos dirigentes venezolanos pocas semanas antes del golpe de Estado, entre los que se contaban El�as Santana (Queremos Elegir) y el sindicalista Carlos Ortega (CTV), vinculados con la fundaci�n. En una nota aparecida en El Nuevo Herald de Miami el director ejecutivo de la Fundaci�n, Joe Garc�a, reconoci� que hab�a compartido reuniones y "asesorado" a dirigentes opositores a Ch�vez. El diario tambi�n recogi� el testimonio del ex banquero cubano-venezolano Orlando Castro: "En el esquema con el que se pretendi� sacar a Ch�vez tuvo bien metidas las manos la Fundaci�n Cubano Americana, la misma que decidi� en Florida el triunfo a favor de Bush". Seg�n el Herald, los activistas del exilio cubano -"desde la Junta Patri�tica Cubana hasta la Unidad Cubana, pasando por Vigilia Mambisa, Comandos F-4 y las m�s importantes emisoras de radio y televisi�n de la ciudad"- pusieron a disposici�n de los antichavistas "recursos, experiencia, estrategias, apoyos log�sticos, cabildeo y contactos en todo Estados Unidos, para impulsar las maniobras opositoras orientadas a desestabilizar al presidente de Venezuela. Durante el paro petrolero de diciembre-enero de 2003, para derrocar a Ch�vez en Venezuela, parte de los "recursos" aportados por los grupos radicales del exilio cubano fueron canalizados mediante transacciones bancarias, a trav�s de cuentas localizadas en el Transatlantic Bank y el Ocean Bank de Miami. El Ocean Bank ya hab�a sido mencionado en la coyuntura golpista de abril de 2002. Seg�n la periodista Lilliam Oviedo, "los conspiradores de Venezuela (...) recibieron recursos a trav�s del Ocean Bank, uno de cuyos principales accionistas es Mario del Valle, esposo de Clara del Valle, vicepresidente de la FNCA" ("La ultraderecha en las suyas", El Nacional, 5.V.2002). La operaci�n de manipulaci�n con los medios de comunicaci�n fue montada por Abrams y Reich y su estructura aportada por Cisneros quien posee en primer lugar la AOL Latin America, DIRECT TV Latin America (300 cadenas de radio y televisi�n en 28 pa�ses) y Univision (la cadena TV hispana en los Estados Unidos). Durante el golpe de Estado, estos medios difundieron informaciones falsas seg�n las cuales Hugo Ch�vez habr�a ordenado disparar sobre los opositores y manifestantes. En realidad, las v�ctimas fueron asesinadas por la polic�a de la ciudad de Caracas, entrenadas en los Estados Unidos por una unidad del FBI. Desde el Departamento de Estado, Reich dio su apoyo inmediato a Carmona y a los militares golpistas. Para preparar el terreno y a la opini�n p�blica, al mismo tiempo abrir la posibilidad de una intervenci�n militar directa de los Estados Unidos, 200 000 US$ d�lares fueron depositados en cuentas bancarias en Miami a nombre del almirante Carlos Molina y del coronel Pedro Soto. Los dos hombres fueron los que exigieron la dimisi�n de Hugo Ch�vez acus�ndolo de ayudar a la guerrilla colombiana de las FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, una acusaci�n difamatoria que permite avalar las operaciones del golpe de Estado en el marco de la "Guerra contra el Terrorismo". Pero Otto Reich cometi� un error del cual tuvo que retractarse despu�s el gobierno de Estados Unidos: con fines distractivos, difundi� el falso rumor de que cuatro aviones cubanos estaban estacionados en Caracas durante los sucesos golpistas de abril. Reich tambi�n estuvo detr�s de la campa�a de prensa contra el convenio energ�tico entre Venezuela y Cuba, que fue financiada por la Fundaci�n Cubana Americana. Altos directivos de PDVSA (la compa��a petrolera estatal venezolana) fueron invitados a Miami por la FNCA y se trasladaron en un avi�n Folem propiedad de Mas Santos. Para financiar las protestas de la oposici�n contra Ch�vez Elliot Abrams y Otto Reich recurrieron a las cuentas en negro de la CIA, principalmente el National Endowment for Democracy. Creado en 1983 por Ronald Reagan, el NED era administrado por Henry Kissinger y por el presidente del sindicato AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland. Presidido hoy en d�a por Carl Gersham y sobre todo administrado por el general Wesley Clark (ex jefe supremo comandante de la OTAN durante la Guerra de Kosovo) y por Frank Carlucci (antiguo director adjunto de la CIA, actual presidente del Carlyle Group y administrador de la fortuna de la familia Bin Laden). La "selecci�n" de los militares venezolanos implicados en el golpe fue obra de Otto Reich quien administr� la Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation en Fort Benning, conocida en el pasado bajo el nombre de Escuela de las Am�ricas. Esta escuela ofrece una formaci�n profesional a los militares latinoamericanos y durante la d�cada del setenta form� a los oficiales de las dictaduras latinoamericanas golpistas, que, bajo la fachada de "guerra contrainsurgente" recib�an ense�anza de t�cnicas y cursos de tortura. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------ Yahoo! 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