below is some info from Venezuelanalysis printed late last night and I am sure many others will follow over the next couple of days but the campaign is much wider, even Aljazeera has called Eva Golinger asking when she can be interviewed about President Chavez death.Its almost like everywhere this *psychological and disinformation* campaign just popped up at once spreading like wild fire almost on all media forms, along with the economic strikes by the capitalists of the hoarding of thousands of tons and cut off of supply of food stuffs by companies like POPLAR, money speculation, the investment strike and companies not paying wages and more layoffs happening.
They are trying to strangle the revolution while president Chavez is away and the inter *rivalry* within the bureaucracy, devaluation and other things are not helping. Many grassroots groups have called for emergency meeting tonight and peasant groups are meeting this afternoon across the country. Cort Chavez: The Harassment of a Patient Mar 1st 2013, by Eleazar Diaz Rangel [image: Chavez with his daughters] Chavez remains in a Caracas hospital, where according to Vice President Nicolas Maduro he is "battling..for his health". (prensa presidencial) I dont believe modern history has ever seen a medical patient so pressured, hounded, and harassed as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has been over the course of the last month. In particular, a medical patient has never been so under assault as President Chavez has been in the days since he returned from Havana, where he recently spent several weeks in cancer-related convalescence. The forces behind the harassment of this patient (the President) are based both at home and abroad, with the most recent example coming out of Washington last week. There, in the United States capital, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland not only attempted to interpret the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuelan (1999) but went as far as to recommend what we the Venezuelan people should do if the President becomes unable to govern. No one needs to tell us, Venezuelans, what we must do in that case, or any other case for that matter, and that is precisely the opportune response given to Ms. Nuland by our Foreign Minister, Elias Jaua. According to the State Department, however, the response Jaua gave was somehow disproportionate. Considering the fact that Washingtons statements were nothing less than the open meddling into issues that are for Venezuelans to resolve, how else should our Foreign Affairs Ministry respond? By denouncing another new and grotesque example of Washingtons meddling in Venezuelas internal affairs, Caracas was responding to a historical record that exists a record that includes the creation of an office tasked with studying the problem of transition in our country back in 2002. What did they expect? Did they expect Venezuela to remain silent? Did they expect us to thank them for their cooperation? Now, with respect to the hounding at home, this has manifested itself in the most varied, disrespectful, and coarse of manners. This domestic hounding has arisen from a diversity of sources, from a pool of media that includes social networks (Twitter, for example) used repeatedly with the greatest deal of irresponsibility. If Im not mistaken, the most recent case of Venezuelan assaults on the patient (President) was the filing of a petition to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) demanding President Chavez be sworn into office immediately and that a medical board be assigned the task of assuring he is capable of doing so. Perhaps the petitions authors are unaware that the formation of such a medical team must be approved by the countrys National Assembly, the same National Assembly that unanimously approved President Chavezs medical leave, leading us to the conclusion that nothing will come of the petition even if the TSJ were to consider it. As it relates to the Presidents swearing in, the irreversible ruling by the nations only legitimate Constitutional Court (the TSJ) is sufficiently clear: Chavezs oath of office will be taken before the TSJ once confirmation is given that the intervening motives impeding his swearing in have been overcome. Clearly, this is not yet the case. And even more obvious, the authors of the aforementioned petition know that this is not yet the case. One pending issue to be resolved is the unanimous authorization granted by the National Assembly to President Chavez so that he carry out an extended medical leave in neighboring Cuba. It seems logical to suppose that once the President returned to the country that authorization is no longer relevant considering the authorization was given, as stipulated in the Constitution, so that the President remain legally outside of Venezuelan territory for over five days. If it becomes necessary for him to return to Cuba again, its also logical to assume that another authorization can be requested. My guess is that it wont be necessary given the caliber of medical care and conditions at the Military Hospital (where Chavez is currently being treated) as well as the capacity of the team of medical professionals accompanying him (in Caracas). In any event, if his health required him to do so, the President himself could decree a temporary absence for a period of 90 days. Like all the other battles he has faced, and always with the support of the people, Chavez is sure to win this one as well. *Eleazar Diaz Rangel is currently Editor-in-Chief of Ultimas Noticias, Venezuelas most widely-read newspaper. He served as Dean at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) School of Social Communication, President of the Association of Venezuelan Journalists and member of the Board of Directors of the countrys National Press Workers Union. He is also a founding member of the Latin American Federation of Journalists (FELAP).* ------------------------------ *Source URL (retrieved on 02/03/2013 - 1:31am):* http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7987 Public Claim that Venezuelas Chavez Has Died Rejected as Attention Seeking Mar 1st 2013, by Ewan Robertson [image: Ex-Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, Guillermo Cochez (agencies)] Ex-Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, Guillermo Cochez (agencies) Mérida, 1st March 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) A claim by the ex-Panamanian ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS) that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died several days ago after being brain dead since 30 December has been dismissed as attention-seeking and speculation by supporters of the Venezuelan president. Guillermo Cochez, until recently Panamas ambassador to the OAS, declared on Wednesday that Chavez had been taken back to Venezuela last Monday 18 February because they didnt want to disconnect him in Cuba from the machines that, in Cochezs version of events, would have been keeping the Venezuelan president alive. According to the Venezuelan government, Hugo Chavez is currently in the Dr. Carlos Arvelo military hospital in Caracas recovering from his cancer operation, undergone last December in Havana. Cochez, in the interview with news channel NTN 24, further claimed that the official photos <http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7768> released of Chavez on 15 February, in which the Venezuelan president is shown smiling and reading the newspaper, as false. I challenge the Venezuelan government to tell me that what Im saying is false, by showing President Chavez, demanded the ex-diplomat. Cochez, who insisted that he had journalistic sources and sources inside the Venezuelan government also predicted that on Wednesday or Thursday fresh presidential elections would be called, which would reflect that what has been said [officially] about President Chavez is totally false. So far, by Friday this week, this prediction has not been fulfilled. Cochez was dismissed as Panamanian ambassador to the OAS after his outburst in an OAS session in January in which he referred to Venezuela as a classic dictatorship and a sick democracy. He also appeared to support Venezuelas right-wing opposition by arguing that a delay in Chavezs swearing-in represented a violation of the Venezuelan constitution. Some members of the opposition have made the same argument. The comments were condemned by other OAS member states and Cochezs own government, which dismissed Cochez and referred to the outburst as far from the position of the national government. *Response* Today, a national assembly legislator for Chavezs party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), referred to Cochezs claims as speculation and attention-seeking. The legislator, Calixto Ortega, said in an interview that he was surprised at the irresponsible declarations of ex-ambassador Cochez. Referring to Cochezs dismissal as ambassador, Ortega added, It would appear that Mr. Cochez started a fight with Venezuela and Panama. We all know that President Chavez has had a serious illness and [an on-going] delicate recovery, but has Mr. Cochez seen Chavez? Has he been in Cuba or Venezuela? Has he been in contact with Chavezs family? No, hes just been speculating, continued Ortega. Meanwhile, today Venezuelan vice-president Nicolas Maduro denounced a fascist media campaign around Hugo Chavezs health aimed at destabilising the country. He said that Chavez was the most harassed patient in history and called on private media to cease the attack against the *comandante*, cease the rumours, and enough already with using a situation thats already delicate for everyone in order to create destabilisation. Maduro called on people to trust the official information given on Chavezs health, according to which the Venezuelan president is responding well to treatment for cancer, however has a breathing tube in place as part of his fight against a respiratory infection, which makes it temporarily difficult for him to speak. The vice president added that Chavez is undergoing complex and tough treatments which require time and calm. All of these treatments are very careful, we need to go little by little, we need to respect the person being submitted to these treatments, he added. The Venezuelan government has previously denounced speculation and rumours around Chavezs health, particularly by Spanish papers ABC and El País, with the latter publishing photographs in January purporting<http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7645> to show Chavez undergoing treatment, which later turned out to be false. ------------------------------ *Source URL (retrieved on 01/03/2013 - 11:24pm):* http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7989 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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