[A-List] Colombia won't help, but the US intention remains

["Paul H. Dillon" <illonph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  I think Petras is a pretty reliable source for evaluating the situation
and US intentions and plans for Venezuela.

  >
  >United States may not be able to count on Colombia as an ally in
  >covert invasion plans for Venezuela; Colombians are already tied up
  >with rebel plans for assault on Bogota
  >

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  >Speaking at the Catholic University in Quito (Ecuador), US professor
  >and researcher James Petras says the United States is prioritizing a
  >Plan Venezuela and Plan Ecuador in parallel with its already
  >launched Plan Colombia in an aggressive geopolitical strategy to
  >unilaterally impose Washington's will on developing nations south of
  >the Rio Grande.
  >
  >Despite the fact that Presidente Hugo Chavez Frias has fairly won
  >more elections than any President today or in the past, Petras says
  >a conjunction of primary targets of North American interference in
  >the government in Venezuela lies in a defamatory media campaign that
  >intensifies with each day with the active incitement of US
  >Ambassador to Venezuela, Charles S. Shapiro, who had had a leading
  >role in the April 2002 coup d'etat which saw the imposition of
  >USA-backed dictator Pedro Carmona Estanga, albeit for only two days.
  >
  >"The United States lost the first round but continued to support
  >action taken in the December-January 2003 national stoppage and now
  >in the opposition's petition for a revocatory referendum against
  >Presidente Chavez.  In view of their failed attempts to overthrow
  >the legitimate government of Venezuela, the next following step is
  >USA-inspired terrorism, an unending war where the coup d'etat
  >against (Haiti's) Aristide is just preparing the way."
  >
  >"We entered an interesting scenario that calls on forces within
  >Colombia itself ... because the United States is not going to invade
  >Venezuela alone ... since it is not in condition to accumulate large
  >scale losses ... Venezuela will not be such a walk-over as Haiti.
  >Colombia provides the military excuse and capability to open up a
  >second front ... an mistaken adventure since the Pentagon has mad
  >such bad calculations that they think they can simply occupy a
  >country (Venezuela), colonize it and 'ciao'."
  >
  >"In my judgment the United States has been preparing Chavez' violent
  >overthrow for some considerable time .. with a combination of
  >internal violent uprisings, a frontier invasion via Colombia and
  >then directly from the United States mainland."
  >
  >Petras, however, considers that the main obstacle for Colombia's
  >involvement in Washington's invasion plans for Venezuela would be
  >left-wing guerrilla fighters along Venezuela's extensive border with
  >Colombia where, right now, a greater force of fighters than could be
  >amassed against Venezuela, are preparing to open a direct assault on
  >Bogota when the Army and right-wing paramilitaries required to
  >consummate the Bush 2 administrations covert plans are concentrated
  >on Venezuelan frontier zones.


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