Documentary Links US to Chavez Coup

[seafan]

Documentary Links US to Chavez Coup

June 14, 2007



US filmmaker Richard Mahoney

Caracas, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) US filmmaker Richard Mahoney said on Thursday that his documentary "Creating Enemies" shows Washington s participation in the coup d etat against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

This film will cause a fire, predicted the filmmaker in a statement to En Confianza program of Venezolana de Television channel.

Mahoney considered his film the first documented evidence of the US involvement in the April 11, 2002 coup.

The presence of a US flotilla in the Venezuelan territorial waters and Special Forces military officials in Tiuna Fort, were among the factors to prove Washington s link to those Venezuelan events.

Also, two ex US ambassadors admitted that presence in the documentary, which will be first shown in October by major networks in the United States, said Mahoney.

An expert in international affairs and former independent politician, Mahoney lived in Chile during a similar experience to Venezuela's, during the period of preparation for the military coup against President Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973.

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(Slight edit for typo and bold emphasis)

[Gabi Hayes]

1. waiting for the crazies

to say, SO WHAT? he's a dictator now, and deserves to be overthrown

just because one is against US policy, doesn't make the support of a dictator acceptable

blah blah blah

etc

[unpossibles]

2. it would not surprise me

it's fits the MO of several coups we've backed the past 50+ years. hell, in my opinion we're still dealing with the problems caused by the 1953 coup in Iran, yet that never gets mentioned as a possible cause of ME tension with America, just like the support of Israel never is discussed.

Democracy is only good if it's a right wing democracy. Our history of backing coups against leftist leaders is why I am skeptical of the Kennedy assassination as well as why I think election fraud is not beyond them. If it's done abroad, why not do it at home too?

[malaise]

3. Duh?

Look how quickly they announced support for the new regime. Poor fugging fools jumped their own gun.

Can't wait to see this.

Add. Sp.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Sure hope no one can interrupt this man's plans for airing that documentary.

Absolutely can't wait to see it.

First, look for a smear campaign against the filmmaker, Richard Mahoney. This is GOING to happen. That's the pattern. Then an even more heightened non-stop propaganda yammerfest thrown even harder at Chavez, leaving no stone unturned.

Next, we surely can expect more faux-Democrats posting their grubby little hearts out here, tying up thread after thread with their bogus assertions, and personal attacks on the DU'ers here who actually make a point of being informed on the subject.

The filmmaker we are going to learn about was in Chile at the same time American journalist Charles Horman, who had also, almost accidently found out about the American military's involvement in the Chilean coup and was, for his efforts, tortured and killed, later memorialized in the film "Missing," byCosta-Gavras with Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek.

From Wikipedia:

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At the time of the military uprising, Horman was in the resort town of Viña del Mar, near the port of Valparaíso, which was a key base for both the Chilean coup plotters and US military and intelligence personnel who were supporting them. While there, he spoke with several US operatives and took notes documenting the role of the United States in overthrowing the Allende government. This discovery led to his secret arrest, disappearance, and execution.
(snip)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Horman

New Information on the Murders
of U.S. Citizens Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi by the
Chilean Military
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB33/index.html

Glad Richard Mahoney made it out before they could execute him. Sure hope his plans to get this story before the audience which refuses to read about what has happened will be successful.

Sometimes that's the ONLY way people can be awakened.