Venezuela Denounce 4th Generation War

[EFerrari]

Venezuela Denounce 4th Generation War

Caracas, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) The presence of Colombian paramilitaries in Venezuela is part of what some politicians and experts refer to as the beginning of a subversive war, which includes violent actions and even stockpiling.

President Hugo Chavez ratified Sunday sectors of the US and Colombian governments are plotting to destabilize the country with the entry of paramilitaries through the border and big cities.

Coincidentally, Venezuelan parliamentarians disclosed a report confirming the existence of paramilitaries in the bordering state of Tachira, and called it "an episode of fourth generation war."

Deputy Julio Garcia Jarpa indicates in a public report that in bordering regions, the action also includes stockpiling and smuggling of foods.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={259CBBF5-FAC9-458A-9C01-1612862264A7})&language=EN

[EFerrari]

1. Venezuela seizes 1/2 ton milk and chicken from clinic

Venezuela seizes 1/2 ton milk and chicken from clinic

Mon Feb 18, 5:45 AM ET

CARACAS (Reuters) - Shoppers in oil-rich Venezuela often can't find basic food items in stores but the government of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday turned up a huge stash of milk and chicken in a private health clinic.
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Inspectors from the consumer protection agency Indecu found the shelves of the upscale Caracas Policlinica Metropolitana stocked with half a tonne of milk and a similar amount of chicken.

Indecu coordinator Jesus Benavides told reporters the products had been illegally diverted from a chain of state-run subsidized grocery stores, which sell primarily to poor Venezuelans who form Chavez's support base.

The clinic will face fines for violating an anti-hoarding law Chavez passed last year and a possible criminal investigation, Benavides said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080218/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_venezuela_food_clinic_1

[AlphaCentauri]

2. The Chavez opposition it's working in the shadows

they seem like working in the dark trying to damage the country as much as they can.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Here's an article by a traveler to Venezuela, touching on the food problem, briefly:

Venezuela: Why the Barrios Still Love Hugo

By Calvin Tucker, Comment Is Free. Posted February 19, 2008.



Despite the rightwing media campaign against him, Chávez is still popular in Venezuela because his tenure has made a difference.
(snip)

Page II
Despite Chávez having won 10 elections and referendums (and immediately accepting defeat in the one he lost), the disinformation war against Venezuelan democracy continues unabated. Two weeks ago, one of the presenters on Globovision told his viewers, apparently with a straight face, that a bank robbery in Altagracia de Orituco was the fault of Chávez. Later I watched a talk show where three upper-class pundits announced, again with no detectable trace of irony, that they were planning to march against "hunger and poverty." Incredibly, they meant their hunger and their poverty.

A few days earlier, I had been shopping in a typical Caracas supermarket in an upmarket part of town. The selection of foodstuffs, fresh, frozen and tinned, stacked high on every shelf, was as impressive as anything offered by Tesco or Wal-Mart. The only product we could not find was milk, which is being hoarded and illegally exported to Colombia by producers and distributors in an attempt to bust government price controls on basic foodstuffs. And despite the sporadic shortages, Venezuelans of all social classes are consuming more food than ever before. In the barrios, state-owned Mercal supermarkets sell food at around half the market price.

On another occasion, I stopped for a cafe negro at one of the multi-purpose street kiosks that are dotted all around Caracas. The usual selection of anti-government newspapers were on display: El Nacional, El Universal, El Mundo, El Nuevo Pais, as well as one or two more moderate organs. Most of them led with an anti-Chávez story, but the headline that grabbed my attention was the one from Tal Cual, a supposedly liberal paper: "Another dictatorship? Never!" it screamed. Last year one of their front page headlines was "Heil Hugo." Underneath was a photomontage of Chavez in a Hitler mustache. Despite these provocations, neither Tal Cual nor any of the more extreme rightwing papers has ever been subject to any censorship by the Chávez administration. Polls show that the percentage of Venezuelans who are "satisfied with their democracy works," has risen from 35 percent to 59 percent during the Chávez presidency. The Latin American average is 37 percent.

More:
http://www.alternet.org/audits/77286/?page=1

[EFerrari]

5. Thank you, Judi.

You truly can know a man by who his enemies are. :)

[Judi Lynn]

3. If destabilization efforts work, and the plans for bringing the impoverished masses suffer,

and the racist, vicious oligarchy gets the control of the country back, the poor of Venezuela can kiss their behinds goodbye, because they will be stripping away ALL the progress made up to the point the oligarchy regains control.

They will never give up their country to be managed, and kicked to the curb by the same people who drove the whole country into hell in the first place. NEVER. They turned a corner in 1989, and do NOT intend to go back ever again. The oligarchy has had its last kick at them, as far as they're concerned.

Sure hope the _Bush administration can't buy off enough traitors in Venezuela to get its filthy sabotage of the government accomplished. Our drooling idiot right-wingers in government need to hear from the world so loudly they can't keep ignoring it that they are invited to reel back in that long, gristly snout, all the way back to the U.S. borders, and STAY THE HELL OUT of other countries' business.

It's time for the people everywhere to turn away from conservative-owned, programmed, designed media, from their right-wing idiot legislators, and started putting all the corruption, and ignorant, delusional, chauvinistic, xenophobic, racist filth back in the past, where it belongs.