Prosecutor Feared Dead in Venezuela Blast

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Nov. 19, 2004

Prosecutor Feared Dead in Venezuela Blast
Associated Press


CARACAS, Venezuela - A bomb exploded early Friday in a pickup truck owned by a prosecutor who is pressing charges against supporters of the failed 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez, and a charred body inside appears to be that of the prosecutor, the government said.

Information Minister Andres Izarra said investigators were attempting to determine if the body was that of Danilo Anderson. Anderson was preparing a case for trial against almost 400 people who signed a declaration supporting interim President Pedro Carmona after Chavez was ousted for two days in the coup.

"There are elements that indicate the prosecutor Anderson was the victim of this attack," Izarra told reporters at the scene of the attack in western Caracas. The pickup and the victim were totally burned.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10219195.htm
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[DELUSIONAL]

1. The new revamped CIA?

[IndianaGreen]

2. Porter Goss wasted no time in engaging in criminal activities

What can we expect next, another coup?

[ilovenicepeople]

30. Does CIA stand for

Caracus Is American?

[Carl Brennan]

46. Kick

[rooboy]

3. Chavez should take the US lead...

and have these people rounded up and sent to Cuba. He can decide if they're guilty later. Good for the goose, good for the gander.

[flordehinojos]

4. Doesn't this news, "a charred body, a totally burned pick-up truck, a

victim who was preparing a case for trial against 400 who opposed Hugo Chavez" the guy that Poppy Bush most wants out of Venezuela, have all of the trademarks of Poppy Bush's dirty CIA hands written all over it?

Smelly. Smelly. Smelly. Fishy. Fishy. Fishy. There they go again!

[Judi Lynn]

5. There have been a lot of these "events" in Miami, as well.

I'm sure you're well aware there are more than a few Cuban "exiles" who also have had CIA connections since the 1960's who have been thrilled to pitch in all over the world while continuing their 40+ year old program of terrorism against Cuban citizens. (Oh, yeah. The Cuban "exile," Roberto Alonso was found with a lot of Colombian paramilitaries on his ranch near Caracas this year, (next door to _{George H. W. Bush's} friend, and media owner, Gustavo Cisneros, who was involved in the coup) who disclosed to Venezuelan police they had been paid to take part in actions against some local politicians.)

Reuters story:

Venezuela Govt. Believes Car Blast Kills Prosecutor


Nov 19, 2004 — CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Two blasts destroyed a car in a Caracas suburb on Thursday and killed its driver, who Venezuelan authorities believed was a key state prosecutor leading a probe into opponents of President Hugo Chavez.

Local television showed police checking over the burned out wreck of a jeep that officials said belonged to Danilo Anderson, a prosecutor who has spearheaded an investigation into opposition figures for their involvement in a 2002 coup against left-winger Chavez.

Senior government figures, some of whom were quick to describe the incident as a "terrorism," rushed to the scene of the late-night explosion. But other officials said they would wait for forensic tests on the badly burned body before fully identifying the driver.

"There were two explosions. … There are elements that point to prosecutor Danilo Anderson being the victim of this attack," Information Minister Andres Izarra told reporters.

Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said initial evidence indicated an explosive had been placed in the vehicle near the driver's seat.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=265330

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Can you IMAGINE what would have happened to a bunch of people who kidnapped the U.S. President, and started voiding the government in place? My God!

They sure wouldn't be out swaggering around years later, like the "opposition" coup pigs in Venezuela.

[cal04]

6. Venezuelan State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson assassinated in cold blood

US NED funds democracy...

Anderson had been instrumental in the prosecutions of Henrique Capriles Radonski for his role in April 2002 riots outside the Cuban Embassy in Caracas during which Capriles Radonski had threatened to violate diplomatic security in efforts to lynch government ministers who had taken refuge there.

The case against Sumate directors related to NED funding was initiated by Luisa Ortega, who was forcibly kidnapped but escaped by throwing herself out of the kidnappers' car ... she suffered severe lacerations and has visible scars as a result of that attack.



Chacon says he strongly repudiates violence in Venezuelan politics and adds that "lamentably there are those in this country who will stoop to using such methods but it is very far removed from the wider Venezuelan mindset." He says that authorities will not be dissuaded from investigating the recipients of NED funding to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Venezuela ... "I have appointed Caracas Superior Prosecutor Leoncio Guerra to continue the investigations together with 30th and 8th National Prosecutors.


http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23570

[Minstrel Boy]

7. I don't quote the Bible much these days, but

these words seem appropriate here, and not just here.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

[God of Emptiness]

8. Honestly, if the CIA was actually trying...

...to overthrow Chavez, I'm sure he'd be long gone. You praise Chavez only because you don't have to deal with him on a daily basis. Chavez and Co. actually have a lot in common with the Republicans. They both have the same arrogance, the same cynicism, the same hypocrisy, the same GREED.

As for Anderson, he was just a lackey for the regime.

For proof, check out these videos: http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=videos

[Minstrel Boy]

9. No leader in the world has a more legitimate mandate than Chavez.

Twice elected, victorious in the referendum, returned to power by the will of the people after having been deposed in a coup.

Castro has been around much longer than Chavez. How many times has the CIA sought his overthrow?

"Vcrisis" is an organ of putschist propaganda.

But really, calling the man who died prosecuting, according to the law, those who plotted Chavez's overthrow "a lackey for the regime" tips your hat far more than you ought to have for a first post. (Though I see you've been a member since 2002. Why silent until now?)

[Rose Siding]

13. Whoa, good question.

Nice catch, M

[Bridget Burke]

15. What a long wait for a mole!

Now it's popped its head aboveground.

[Carl Brennan]

36. Yea, and our taxpayer money probably paying for this Christian In

Action (CIA).

[bin.dare]

16. eagle eye there ...

Detective-Inspector Rene 'Doubty' Descartes of the Yard.
(an old Monty Python character, JIC)

[God of Emptiness]

19. "Victorious in the referendum"

Funny thing is, the exit polls had him losing by 20 points...and then he winds up winning by 20 points. Sounds like what happened to Kerry in FL and OH, doesn't it? Not to mention that Jorge Rodriguez was in bed with the company that sold the electronic voting machines...and agreed to pay $91 million for them, even though another company had offered them for $21 million. I don't know about you, but that kind of reminds me of Bush's relationship with Diebold's president ("We'll do everything we can to make sure you win").

[Darranar]

22. Those "exit polls" were frauds. n/t

[Minstrel Boy]

27. Don't be disingenuous. You know who conducted the exit polls. n/t

[Carl Brennan]

37. Some sources would be nice. Just to verify

your claims.

[bvar22]

10. In common with OUR Republicans??? NOT

Diverting profits from wealthy coporations to building schools and hospitals for the poor?
YEAH!!!!Bwahahahahahahahahah.
That's a Republican Value.......NOT!!!

IMPOSING TAXES ON UNBORN BABIES
SO THEY CAN GIVE MONEY TO THEIR RICH FRIENDS...
NOW THAT'S A REPUBLICAN VALUE!!!

[Vanje]

12. Yeah right.

"Honestly, if the CIA was actually trying......to overthrow Chavez, I'm sure he'd be long gone."

Yeah right.
And if the CIA was actually interested in stopping terrorism, 9-11 wouldnt have occured.
But it did.

[denverbill]

14. Yeah, sure, just like Bush. That's why Bush has wanted him gone.

If Bush was in charge of Venezuala, would he have resisted efforts to privatize the national oil company, imposed export taxes on oil exports to fund social programs, sacked the top oil industry executives who were sabotaging oil exports in order to destabilize the regime, etc.

Is the entire private media in the US broadcasting 24 hours a day telling us how awful Bush is and supporting efforts to overthrow or recall him?

Why not compare the acts of the right-wingers who just hatched this assassination and who were in charge of the coup that nearly deposed Chavez two years ago, to the actions of Chavez who was using legal means to attempt to prosecute the coup plotters?

[God of Emptiness]

20. He RESIGNED...don't you remember?

"Why not compare the acts of the right-wingers who just hatched this assassination and who were in charge of the coup that nearly deposed Chavez two years ago, to the actions of Chavez who was using legal means to attempt to prosecute the coup plotters? "

Lucas Rincon, who was then Commander in Chief of the Army, announced that Chavez had RESIGNED. Now he won't admit he ever did that, but that won't what he already did.

If the opposition is so right wing, then explain to me why Bandera Roja (long considered a radical left wing group) does NOT support Chavez and has even stated that "Chavez is not a true revolutionary." I'm sure it'll be a piece of cake since you're so knowledgeable about Venezuela.

[denverbill]

21. Yeah, that's sure is puzzling, isn't it.

A self-proclaimed 'Marxist-Leninist' group doesn't support a left-winger because he's not a 'true revolutionary'. Well, duh. Did the Constitution Party support Bush or did they think he wasn't a 'true conservative'?

Clearly, Chavez isn't nearly as left wing as he is painted by right-wing nuts both here and abroad or the Red Brigade would be his biggest supporters. Clearly, Chavez isn't a dictator or he wouldn't allow an opposition media to broadcast anti-Chavez crap day after day, even to the point of fomenting violence.

Chavez isn't perfect, but in my book, he's attempting to do what's I would try to do if I were President there: Attempt to alleviate the suffering of the lower classes by taxing oil, Venezuala's primary source of wealth. He hasn't banned opposition parties or shutdown opposition media, even in the face of violence like this. He hasn't come CLOSE to eliminating private property or even doing a major land reform to redistribute the property of the oligarchs.

Since you are so knowledgable about Venezuala, perhaps you'd like to explain to me what Chavez has done to merit comparison with Castro?

[Minstrel Boy]

28. Pretzel logic, worthy of a Pretzeldent

"If the opposition is so right wing, then explain to me why Bandera Roja (long considered a radical left wing group) does NOT support Chavez and has even stated that 'Chavez is not a true revolutionary.'"

The opposition is so right wing, even a moderate progressive figure such as Chavez is too radical for it.

[yellowcanine]

18. "As for Anderson, he was just a lackey for the regime." So that makes it

ok to blow him up?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Enjoy your extremely short stay. (nt)

[Demeter]

42. The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend

until proven otherwise. Besides, the people of Venezuela support Chavez.

[denverbill]

11. Has the US denounced this cowardly, terrorist attack yet?

Or are we still to busy wiping our fingerprints off the money that we used to pay for it?

[Minstrel Boy]

17. "IN MEMORIAM: Danilo Anderson: a brave servant of the Venezuelan people"

Venezuelafoia.info (New York) Eva Golinger writes: As a colleague of Daniel and a fellow fighter against injustice, I deplore the brutal assassination of this brave lawyer, who was only doing his job, not caving into the immense pressure around him.

This action against Daniel represents the barbarity of those who wish to inject us with fear and want to prevent the advances of the Bolivarian process and our struggle for justice.

They are the ones who fear us ... they fear our courage and our relentless search for the truth.

...

As the attorney leading the investigation of the CIA and the US Government involvement in the coup and in the ongoing destabilization campaign in Venezuela, I will continue with the strength of Danilo in my investigations and my work.

I will not be intimidated and they won’t stop me with showings of brutality.

Eva Golinger
[e-mail]

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23571


Danilo Anderson

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. If you've seen The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, you'll know that

1) The anti-Chavez plotters were the Venezuelan equivalent of country club Republicans.

2) The coup plotters "re-established democracy" by dissolving the national legislature, firing the supreme court, placing the Cabinet under arrest, and shutting down the national public television network. This is not my imagination. They were captured on film saying as much. Now I'll know what to say whenever a dictator takes over anyplace: "He's just re-establishing democracy." :eyes:

[God of Emptiness]

24. Chavez financed that movie...

...yet somehow it's not considered "propaganda".

And don't forget that on April 11, 2002, he ordered the Army to open fire on the protesters and the general in charge refused to obey his order. And then he praised the scumbags that were shooting into the crowd from Puente Llaguno (the whole thing was caught on tape, the whole country saw it). And as all hell broke loose, he took over the airwaves to say that "nothing's going on", which was obviously bullshit. That's when the TV channels split the screen to show what was really going on. http://www.urru.org/gaitas/cadena.wmv Fast forward to 19:07 if you want to see them. Or watch the whole thing if you want to see the enormous number of "fascists" there are in Venezuela.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. So he faked the scene of the coup plotters overthrowing all the

branches of government?

Did he fake the crowds in the street demanding his return?

[IndianaGreen]

29. How's the weather in Miami?

The film clearly shows that it was Chavez's opposition that had opened fire on the Chavistas demonstrators.

[Demeter]

43. I Think Democrats Should Take Lessons From Chavez

He knows how to survive and prevail. Of course, Democrats COULD have taken lessons from Clinton, or Dean, or the GOP itself, but there's too much indolence or sqeamishness, or denial going on for that to happen....

[Minstrel Boy]

31. "US government implicated in the assassination of Danilo Anderson?"

Oscar Heck: US government implicated in the assassination of Danilo Anderson?

...

Why do I accuse the US government of being complicit?

Simple. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has recently been financing what they call “pro-democracy” “organizations” in Venezuela to the tune of millions of dollars. Most, if not all of these organizations are anti-Chavez, as recently implied by the NED’s president himself. Many of the members of these “organizations” have been the overt leaders of the rabid (and often criminal and violent) anti-Chavez movements in the last three years ... or they have been directly involved in publicly discrediting Chavez with lies and false accusations, manipulation of information and outright disinformation.

These Venezuelans, the ones who have been backed by the NED and other supposed pro-democracy NGOs such as USAID, have been publicly involved in everything from promoting civil unrest, to calling for the death of Chavez ... to being present at the April 2002 coup against Chavez ... and signing coupster Pedro Carmona’s dictatorial decree dissolving the elected National Assembly, the reform laws and the constitution.

The NED is well aware of this ... especially since much of the incriminating evidence was publicly televised by the criminals themselves. “Organizations” such as Sumate, the CTV and Fedecamaras are amongst these.

Note: There are many more “anti-Chavez” Venezuelan “organizations” which have received funding from the NED and USAID and whose members were also involved in sabotaging the Chavez government and the country. This is part of the investigation which the Prosecutor’s office is involved in.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23581

[Judi Lynn]

32. Thanks for posting this article. It's very helpful to those of us

who are aware of how the NED has manipulated events in Venezuela, in deep, determined contempt of the people's democratic elections.

[Carl Brennan]

33. CIA trained anti-Chavez terrorists

Video of CIA training anti-Chavez people to be turned over to US Congress: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=179113
While the US embassy had no comment, Venezuela will turn this video over to US congress <clips> CARACAS, Venezuela - Lawmakers allied with President Hugo Chavez showed a videotape Wednesday which they claimed was evidence that the CIA was working with Venezuelan dissidents to overthrow the government. The video, shown at a news conference at Congress, displayed three men speaking in Spanish about espionage, making contacts with an unspecified embassy, and avoiding detection. The identities of those on the tape were unknown. Ruling party lawmaker Nicolas Maduro said the video showed U.S. secret agents training dissident military officers and municipal police in espionage and "terrorist" tactics. He said it was filmed in Venezuela in June. In September, Chavez claimed that his government had a videotape showing a CIA officer training Venezuelan police and civilians in spying. <http://www.santafenewmexican.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&S... <http://www.santafenewmexican.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=8&ArticleID=34504> > <Image <>>

[Carl Brennan]

34. Earlier blast had Asst. Sec. of State Otto Reich's earmark

I wonder where ol' Otto has been lately since he suddenly jumped ship earlier this year? I'll bet he now resides in Gatorland enjoying the company of his reptilian cousins and training anti-Chavez terrorists.



This office Bldg. blast has the earmark of Otto Reich as suggested at DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=23561&forum=DCForumID61



Blast Destroys Venezuela Office Building
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2556398,00.html>

A bomb heavily
damaged a building where talks were held for a
recall referendum of President Hugo Chavez,
authorities said.
The blast at the Teleport office building occurred
at 2:45 a.m.; the only two people inside, a night
watchman and a technician, were not injured.
Police said they did not know who planted the
bomb or why.
The bombers may be the same as those behind
bombings at the Spanish embassy and Colombian
consulate in February, Police Chief Carlos Medina
said.
No suspects have been identified in those

[Carl Brennan]

35. Earlier anti-Chavez terrorism and US involvement

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x551494


Venezuela's Public Defender German Mundarain denounces US interference in paramilitary case

VENPRES reports: Public Defender German Mundarain has stated categorically that there is well-founded historical evidence to suspect that the US State Department participated in the paramilitary operation frustrated last Sunday by state security agencies.


The maximum defender of human rights said that he’s convinced that “there are (local) groups who are conniving with traditional terrorist and criminal groups.” He added that he is fed up with knowing how paramilitary groups operate in the world, principally in Colombia, almost always with funding from drug trafficking; they are permanently dedicated to developing terrorist acts.

He added that “The US State Department needs to explain its complicity with this modus operandi of attacking governments in order to change the peoples of the Third World. Up to now, we’ve been able to show evidence that that has been the State Department’s repeated behavior, and it leads us to believe that they will continue acting the same way.”

Mundarain commented that the paramilitary incident is extremely grave, and he noted several occurrences within and outside the hemisphere that demonstrate the classic behavior of US intelligence towards governments that disagree with US foreign policy objectives, interests and purposes.

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<http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=21128>

[Minstrel Boy]

38. Chavez' spokesman says assassins trained in Florida

Venezuelan exiles suspected in death

Andrew Selsky
Associated Press
Nov. 20, 2004 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's spokesman on Friday accused "terrorists" training in Florida of being behind the assassination of a state attorney who intended to prosecute backers of Venezuela's 2002 coup.

...

As authorities called for calm, hundreds of mourners, some angrily shouting, "Justice!" watched while a coffin bearing Anderson's body was brought into the Attorney General's Office Building in downtown Caracas.

Izarra blamed Venezuelan exiles in Florida, echoing Chavez's earlier accusations that Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" were training in Florida to execute him and were using the media to call for his removal.

The U.S. government denounced the assassination.

Brian Penn, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, said that as far as he knew, the government of Venezuela has not provided any information to support its charges.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1120venezuela20.html

[Minstrel Boy]

39. "The government of the United States must explain"

CARACAS, Venezuela · Venezuela suggested Friday that exiles living in Florida may have masterminded the assassination of a prosecutor investigating a short-lived coup against leftist President Hugo Chávez and demanded that Washington explain why the United States harbors the alleged extremists.

...

But several officials pointed to Venezuelan exiles in the Miami area who have publicly urged Chávez's violent overthrow or are sought in Venezuela in connection with two foreign embassy bombings last year.

"The government of the United States must explain how these terrorist groups who operate in Florida make such statements through the mass media with demonstrated impunity," said Information Minister Andres Izarra.

...

"I think everyone should denounce Mr. Anderson's death, whether they support or oppose Chávez because no one should be murdered like this," said Fernandez, who arrived in Miami in April 2003 seeking political asylum and now lives in Weston.

"But you have to realize this investigation into more then 400 people who did nothing wrong back in 2000 was wrong, a political prosecution and it was bound to generate violence in Venezuela."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-avenez20nov20,0,2233164.story?coll=sfla-news-caribbean

[Octafish]

40. BFEE is the World's Top Terrorist Org

This sad story is just the latest work of a most violent group that makes money and gains power through war and death. Consider it was the RIGHT that bombed the train station in Genoa. It was the RIGHT that bombed Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. It was the RIGHT that bombed the federal building in OKC. It was the RIGHT that allowed 9-11.

At the top of the RIGHT pyramid sits the sorry ass of one George Walker Bush.

Son muchas malas noticias.

[Carl Brennan]

41. I'll bet ol' Otto Reich is in Florida right now. This

is exactly what Bush is all about. Destroying a democratically elected leader.

How do we find out where this training camp is? I heard that the infamous School of the Americas is transplanted in Gatorland. If they are there it is probably training its pupils for this kind of shit.

:grr:

If Hugo's got the evidence he should present it to the Florida authorities. I know this sounds like asking the rats to look into who is stealing the cheese but at least it would be going on the record.

[Minstrel Boy]

44. "Impunity until when?"

A supporter of late Venezuelan prosecutor
Danilo Anderson cries while holding a poster
which reads "Impunity until when" during a
protest outside of the General Attorney
building in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez vowed Friday that Venezuela's intelligence services would identify the assassins of a state attorney who intended to prosecute backers of Venezuela's 2002 coup.

Danilo Anderson, known to many Venezuelans as the "super prosecutor," was killed Thursday night by two explosions that ripped through his SUV in the capital. The assassination shook this oil-rich South American nation, renewing the specter of further violence just as years of political upheaval appeared to be ending.

"The attack against Danilo Anderson is an attack against all of us," Chavez said in a televised address to the nation, adding that it was also an attack on Venezuelans' dreams of democracy.

...

"The fascists and terrorists that acted against the prosecutor" want to derail Chavez's social revolution, Chavez's spokesman told a news conference. "Some of them train and constantly make pronouncements from Florida, United States."

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2004/11/20/news/latest_news/bf1d357d148b9c9586256f52001bdd2f.txt

[Minstrel Boy]

45. Chavez: "They will not defeat Danilo Anderson. That is to say, to us."

President Hugo Chavez Frias has warned those who still insist on violence that "they are going to have to finish us all off ... we are many Danilo Andersons, willing to die for this country. They will not overpower us, those murderous hyenas ... I promise or, better yet, I swear it. Whoever they are and wherever they be hidden like rats, they will not defeat Danilo Anderson, that is to say, to us."

After condemning the terrorist attack that ended the life of State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson, Chavez Frias, Friday night emphatically declared on national radio and television that "this is an attempt to murder the process of deep and true change that is unfolding in Venezuela."

From the Miraflores Palace Ayacucho Salon, the Head of State instructed the nation to engage in important reflections regarding the lamentable event that the Venezuelan public unanimously repudiates. He reiterated that such a despicable act "is part of an attempt to murder the dreams of the vast majority of Venezuelans, to put an end to the hope of Venezuelans who on various occasions have said NO to the minority driven crazy by too much power, to the minority that believes it is untouchable, beyond the law, beyond life and death, free to arrange the destiny of the people."

"There in the firmament of the martyrs where the stars shine, there is a new one named Danilo Anderson," President Chavez said. At the same time he notified those who insist on violent means ... those who were accustomed to controlling the reins the power and doing whatever they wished because the law did not apply to them ... that "they are going to have to finish us all off, we are many Andersons, willing to die for this country."

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23615