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- From: toysoldier5
State of residence: NA
Subject: Chavez
Date: 3-17-2008
I am not necessarily opposed to the CIA's fomenting a coup or regime change in any particular country at any particular time, but it had better have good reason when it attempts one of these things. We shouldn't be messin' with Chavez, however. Let him mouth off as he is wont to do. He can't harm us.
- From: JJR
State of residence: MO
Subject: Venezuela Constitution Referendum
Date: 12-18-2007
"On Dec. 2 Venezuelan voters rejected President Hugo Chávez’s proposal to overhaul Venezuela’s Constitution by 51 to 49 percent, the leader’s first electoral defeat since taking office in 1999. It was a loss of nearly 3 million votes compared to his re-election victory last December. The referendum results reflected the electorate’s worries about Chávez’s proposals to scrap term limits and take on wide powers, even though the leader currently controls practically all branches of government. 'Having majority support doesn’t represent a blank check to do as he likes,' said Margarita López Maya, a historian at the Central University of Venezuela." Link. President Chavez accepted the vote making no move to overrule the results.
This is very good news for Venezuela as a democracy. Every hear of a dictator allowing himself to lose an election? No dictator I have ever heard of conducted a vote that was not absolutely guaranteed to deliver the result he desired (or to vacate the result if he lost). This is also good news for Hugo Chavez, the man. The CIA may now spare his life.
- From: JJR
State of residence: MO
Subject: CIA Chavez Coup Memo
Date: 11-30-2007
"On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which will influence the referendum this Sunday, December 2, 2007. The memo sent by an embassy official, Michael Middleton Steere, was addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence, Michael Hayden. The memo was entitled 'Advancing to the Last Phase of Operation Pincer' and updates the activity by a CIA unit with the acronym 'HUMINT' (Human Intelligence) which is engaged in clandestine action to destabilize the forth-coming referendum and coordinate the civil military overthrow of the elected Chavez government." Counterpunch Story. This article by Dave Lindorff has more analysis on the memo.
- From: JJR
State of residence: MO
Subject: John Perkins on the Chavez Coup
Date: 11-6-2007
John Perkins claims to have been a government contract agent of sorts which he terms "an economic hit man"; See his book titled Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. A short chapter therein is dedicated to the Venezuelan coup against Chavez (Chapter 33, page 231). In Perkins view, the American empire is a military-business partnership with American business interests as the senior partners. Per Perkins, American economic hit men descend upon a target country to extract profitable contracts for American business. If the target country acquiesces, then the American government plays nice. If not and the target country possesses recourses or other wealth of sufficient value to warrant the effort, the "jackals" are sent in. These are CIA contract agents who are there for regime change by whatever means necessary. In the case of the Chavez coup, Perkins opines that a New York Times article goes so far as to identify who was the overall action officer for the CIA overthrow of Chavez: Otto J. Reich, former US Ambassador to Venezuela and then Asst. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Tim Winer, A Coup by Any Other Name, New York Times, April 14, 2002. When one reads the article, there is but slight attribution of the coup to Reich. The implication is that Perkins is passing on to us what he has heard through contracts in the trade that Reich held overall operational authority for the Chavez coup. Additional Information. Don't hold your breadth for a Congressional inquiry.
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