Venezuela's Maduro urges Obama to halt "plot" against rival
Source: Reuters
Venezuela's acting president urged U.S. President Barack Obama to stop what he called a plot by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to kill his opposition rival and trigger a coup ahead of an April 14 election.
Nicolas Maduro said the plan was to blame his opponent's murder on the OPEC nation's government and to "fill Venezuelans with hate" as they prepare to vote following the death of socialist leader Hugo Chavez.
The United States denied the claim. "We categorically reject allegations of U.S. government involvement in any plot to harm anyone in Venezuela," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.
Maduro, a 50-year-old former bus driver and union leader, first mentioned a plot against his rival, Henrique Capriles, last week. He blamed it on former Bush administration officials Roger Noriega and Otto Reich. Both rejected the allegations as untrue, outrageous and defamatory.
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He's insane 
In some places attacking the US is always popular. He also accused the US of causing Chavez's cancer.
whether from the Venezuela public funds or by dropping trou?!1
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... On 17 June 2011, officials from the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust (founded as a charitable Trust in India, and legally separate from religious activities),[63] opened his private residence in the presence of government, bank and tax department officials, including retired Supreme Court Judge A P Mishra and retired judge of Karnataka High Court Vaidyanatha, an assessor approved by the Income Tax Department, and former Chief Justice of India P N Bhagavati.[64] In the private residence, which had been sealed since his death, they inventoried 98 kg of gold ornaments, approximate value Rs 21 crore (US$4.7m), 307 kg of silver ornaments, approximate value Rs 1.6 crore (US$0.36m), and Rs 11.6 crore (US$2.6m) in cash. The cash was deposited into the Sai Trust's account at the State Bank of India with payment of government taxes (thus transferring them from religious gifts to Trust assets.) The gold and other items were inventoried, assessed, and placed in secure storage. In July, district authorities found an additional Rs 77 lakh (US$0.17m) in valuables in another 4 rooms.[65] The total value is believed to exceed 7.8 million US dollars.[66]
Also found at Yajurmandir were many articles routinely given away as gifts in various ceremonies to devotees and those who performed selfless service, including thousands of pure silk sarees, dhotis, shirts, 500 pairs of shoes, dozens of bottles of perfume and hairspray, watches, a large number of silver and gold “mangala sutrams”, and precious stones such as diamonds. There were also 750 saffron and white robes of the type Sai Baba wore.[67] In July 2011, a similar opening of his Bangalore-area ashram found 6 kg of gold coins and jewellery, 245 kg of silver articles and Rs 80 lakh in cash. These goods were believed to have been donated over the years by Sathya Sai Baba's devotees from all over the world. ....
In 2004, the BBC produced a documentary titled The Secret Swami, as part of its series "The World Uncovered".[143] One central theme of the BBC documentary was again Alaya Rahm's sexual abuse allegations against Sathya Sai Baba.[144] This documentary interviewed him together with Mark Roche, who had spent 25 years of his life since 1969 in the movement and alleged abuse by Sai Baba.[144] The show also featured allegations from Sai Baba critic Basava Premanand. Premanand stated in the documentary that, in his opinion, Sai Baba faked his materialisations. Here, he claimed that Sathya Sai Baba was "not just a fraud, but a dangerous sexual abuser". According to his interview, he had stories which spanned 30 years, and he stated that his stories were similar, a common practice being the rubbing of genitals with oil by the spiritual leader. Among his claims were that one ex-devotee claimed Sai Baba "put the oil on his hands, told me to drop my pants and rubbed my genitals with the oil". Premanand theorised that many Indian boys were abused but were never heard from because they too afraid to speak out, alleging Sai Baba was well-connected with the elite and powerful of India.[126 ....
Noteworthy Followers
Isaac Tigrett
Sachin Tendulkar
Nicolás Maduro
Hariharan
Dana Gillespie
Goldie Hawn
Sarah Ferguson
Anup Jalota
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I don't think there's any low too low for that bunch of oil thieves when it comes to getting their hands on the largest proved oil reserves in the world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-rejects-venezuelan-govt-charge-its-targeting-opposition-candidate/2013/03/18/8ab36928-9002-11e2-9173-7f87cda73b49_story.html
The mastermind he specifically mentioned was Otto Reich. "firm and continuing policy" "efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond this date", "implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG and American hand be well hidden" apply to the government of Venezuela also. The week Chavez died, the Venezuelans caught 2 US attaches trying to get Venezuelan military personnel to commit treason against their countrymen. The military attaches were expelled from the country. And the US, in a vindictive tit-for-tat move, expelled 2 diplomats. The evidence wasn't released but I don't think Maduro is talking out of his ass.
Before the coup against President Allende of Chile, Allende too accused the US of assassinating his conservative opponent, former Chilean Cabinet Minister, Edmundo Pérez Zujovic. Perez's assassination by the anarchist group, "Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo", was used as a justification for the 1973 Coup d'état.
Rinse, lather, repeat. Oh but we would never!
"It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much preferable to have this transpire prior to 24 October but efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond this date. We are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end, utilizing every appropriate resource. It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG and American hand be well hidden..." — Henry Kissinger in a communique to the CIA base in Chile, 16 oktober, 1970.
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
Henry Kissinger
Sun Feb-20-11
Just to be VERY CLEAR, for those who don't know this history or don't have time to read the whole article--the U.S./Nixon administration was thickly involved in the events in Chile in the 1970s, whereby Chilean voters were overthrown--not just the government--but the sovereign people of Chile and their right to have a government of their choice, was overthrown. DEMOCRACY was overthrown. On the fear--on the FEAR, not the reality, the FEAR--that a socialist government MIGHT ally with the Soviet Union--the U.S. supported, aided and abetted this horribly violent coup d'etat and the horrors afterwards--the tortures and murders of thousands of people for their political views.
This U.S. policy in Latin America has hardly changed in forty years. Thousands of trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers, community activists, peasant farmers and others have been slaughtered by the Colombian military (with $7 BILLION in U.S. military aid) and by its rightwing paramilitary death squads, with the Bush Junta tool in Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, stating publicly that everyone who opposed him is a "terrorist," while he himself is filthy dirty with ties to the death squads and the trillion dollar cocaine trade. This criminal is now under the protection of the CIA and the Obama administration, which have arranged for the removal of witnesses against Uribe from Colombia, out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections. They furthermore have set him up with cushy academic sinecures at Georgetown and Harvard and appointment to a prestigious international legal commission.
And now the same thing is starting in Honduras, where the U.S.-backed, fascist coup government--with only the thinnest smear of democracy cosmetics provided by Hillary Clinton--is ignoring the murders of numerous anti-coup organizers and the rapes, beatings and tortures of others. While the military and the death squads decapitate the leftist leadership in these countries, in preparation for U.S. "free trade for the rich," the corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. "war on drugs" is additionally used to militarize and brutalize society--under way now, in Mexico, with new ops in Honduras as well. This latter--the "war on drugs"--is likely also being used to consolidate the cocaine trade under Bush Cartel/CIA control (i.e., smashing independent operations and protecting those who are "players"
. This trillion dollar-plus revenue stream provides massive illicit funds for god-knows-who and god-knows-what, as well as providing liquidity to the banksters. But one thing that the U.S. "war on drugs" does NOT do, and NEVER WILL do, is stop the cocaine trade.
Nixon started the U.S. "war on drugs" while his regime was destroying Chilean democracy and the two things are very related. The U.S. "war on drugs" provided the method of continued control of Latin American countries, with vast corruption, brutalization and direct U.S. funding of the fascists and the militarists. It also provided a substitute "war" for our war profiteers, since Nixon-Kissinger were being forced to wind down the war on Vietnam, because, a) the people of the U.S. were rebelling against it, and b) the Vietnamese--those 'little brown people' in straw hats and sandals, who were fighting for their independence--were winning against the biggest war machine on earth. (Their democracy had also been destroyed when the U.S. forbade a UN-sponsored election in 1954--an election that independence hero Ho Chi Minh would have won.)
The use of the U.S. "war on drugs" to destroy democracy in Latin America continues to this day and has never been more intense. In September 2008, when the U.S. embassy was funding/organizing a white separatist insurrection in Bolivia, Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, not only threw the U.S. ambassador out of the country, he threw the DEA out of Bolivia, because they, too, were colluding with the white separatists. After defeating the insurrection, with the unanimous backing of South American countries, via UNASUR (an EU-type regional institution that had been formalized only that very summer), Bolivia then proceeded with its vote on Bolivia's new constitution (overwhelmingly popular, written by the people) which legalizes and protects the coca leaf (not cocaine) as a sacred Indigenous medicine. After Venezuela, Bolivia is the no. 1 target of the U.S. for this reason. It has rebelled against the U.S. "war on drugs"--the prime U.S. method of control--by opting for a SANE drug policy and legalizing the coca leaf (somewhat comparable to legaling marijuana here--another harmless and beneficial herb). This legalization calls into question the entire brutal edifice of control that has been operating since Nixon, and that the Obama administration fully supports--a policy that is costing us, all told, probably a trillion dollars--to war profiteers, Pentagon bases in Latin America, the "prison-industrial complex," our own police state and related corruption (for instance, pesticides to spray on food farms in Latin America, to drive the peasants off their land--land then goes to the preferred drug lords, Monsanto, etc.)
Let me just tell you what one of the Honduran coup generals said about their recent coup (June 2009)--a coup that the Obama administration abetted and secured. He said that their coup was intended "to prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States" (quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile).
Nothing has changed. Policies that benefit the poor, and democratic processes that enable the vast poor majority to elect governments that act in their interest, are STILL considered "communist" is some circles, and those who truly rule the U.S.--transglobal corporations and war profiteers--are STILL determined to exterminate those policies and those democratic processes and the leaders who represent them. The U.S. "war on drugs" is the chief means being used to that end, supplemented by multi-millions of our tax dollars being funneled to rightwing groups throughout Latin America, through agencies like the USAID and entities like the Pentagon, on top of unknown amounts of covert money, some of it directly out of our pockets and some from illicit revenue streams.
And the cocaine just keeps on flowing.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x589240
The above excellent post was written by DU user Peace Patriot, since this is already on DU's servers in full, I took the liberty of quoting more than 4 paragraphs
who was found guilty in a Congressional investigation of conducting illegal propaganda programs from his Office of Public Diplomacy was forced out at the time, and was rejected repeatedly by the U.S. Senate when Bush tried to appoint him to the State Department. He finally had to slip him under the door to the office during a Senate Recess, getting him lodged in there the slick way, after all.
The other guy with Reich in Venezuela who got expelled with him was Roger Noriega, who bullied and intimidated every one he could for George W. Bush from the State Department, too, stooping as low as to threaten Bermuda into terminating its agreement to sell its used buses to Cuba so Cuba could upgrade its own stock. He left no stone unturned in showing Bush's smallness, pettiness, sadistic disposition, and unfitness for the Presidency of the U.S.
Both men have given their lives in the pursuit of crushing any and all Latin American attempts to move toward reclaiming their own countries, their own natural rights of independence and well-being.
Just found an interesting snippet:
2001-2003: Expert Says Few People Determine US Policy to Haiti
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According to Haiti expert Robert Maguire of Trinity College, the permanent US representative to the Organization of American States Roger Noriega and US Special Envoy to Latin America Otto Reich lead a “relatively small group of people” who develop strategies toward Haiti.
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=roger_francisco_noriega
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Otto Reich, Roger Noriega, 2 power worshippers
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