[Marxism] In pre-election gambit, "soldier" says he was part of Ven. plot to destabilize Peru

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Self proclaimed Soldier claims Venezuelan Plot to Destabilize Peru
Saturday, Jun 03, 2006          
                
By: Venezuelanalysis.com Staff

Caracas , June 3, 2006, Tensions over Venezuelan interference in Peru?s
upcoming elections again boil over as Moisés Boyer Riobueno, who claims
to be a Venezuelan soldier, announced that he had been given orders to
disturb Peru?s democratic process .

Thursday, Boyer announced that he was captain in the Venezuelan army,
and denounced orders he says he received from the Venezuelan government
to be part of a conspiracy against the Peruvian elections. He said that
the Chávez administration had given $600,000 to finance the campaign of
Ollanta Humala.

He also claimed that he went to Peru with 19 other soldiers with orders
by the Venezuelan president to train groups to cause social chaos during
the next election.

The Venezuelan Ministry of Communications strenuously denied the
allegations in a recent press release. ?The campaign of Peruvian
Candidate Alan Garcia and of the government of that country against
President Hugo Chávez Frías continues advancing without scruples: this
time they have reached the extreme of contracting a known mercenary,?
said the statement.

The Ministry of External Relations denied that Boyer was ever a soldier
in the armed forces of Venezuela.

Some Peruvian officials have also expressed skepticism about Boyer?s
identity. ?If [Boyer] really is Venezuelan, he has lived in Trujillo for
more than three years. He works as a bellhop in a restaurant called Al
carbon, owned by a militant [loyalist to Garcia?s party], named Jorge
Olivera. What?s more, in the last electoral campaign he worked as a
bodyguard for a congressional candidate of Congreso de Alianza por el
Futuro,? said Alberto Escudero, Congressman Elect for Unión por el Perú
, according to Peru?s El Comercio.

Early last month, Venezuela and Peru withdrew their respective
ambassadors after Chávez threatened to withdraw his ambassador to Peru
if García won. Garcia was president in Peru from 1985-90 and presided
over hyperinflation and food shortages and the two exchanged insults.
Chavez had vocally supported the alternative candidate, Ollanta Humala,
who eventually, along with current Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo,
criticized Chávez for his meddling. The National Assembly in Venezuela,
which is composed solely of members of the ruling and allied parties,
unanimously expressed its support for Chávez?s handling of the
situation.


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