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   From: gisin@uniserve.com   
      
   This belongs in alt.conspiracy. It's nothing but black/white thinking about   
   evil "right" and good   
   "left".   
      
   There is growing opposition to the constitional "commie dictator" reforms,   
   and they are the target of far more violence and police action than the Chavez   
   supports.   
      
   "publius2k"  wrote in message news:2vtvk393fv3v4or8   
   v76jgpbbg2rntom6k@4ax.com...   
   > 'Operation Pincer': the CIA's role against Venezuela   
   > Friday, November 30, 2007 By: Gloria La Riva   
   >   
   > Attacking the constitutional referendum   
   >   
   > As Venezuela's referendum nears, the pro-Chávez majority of the population   
   is mobilizing   
   > to vote "Yes" on Dec. 2 to proposed constitutional changes, and then, to   
   fight to defend   
   > that vote.   
   >   
   > Only days before the vote, orchestrated attacks by opposition groups are   
   increasing and a   
   > destabilization campaign is fully underway, directed and financed by   
   Washington. A   
   > newly-discovered CIA communiqué calls for intensified attacks after Dec. 2.   
   >   
   > José Aníbal Oliveros Yépez, a 19-year-old worker with Petrocasas in the city   
   of Valencia,   
   > was murdered on Nov. 26. He was shot in the back by a group of opposition   
   thugs responding   
   > to the CIA and Venezuelan right-wing's call for terrorist violence to   
   intimidate Chávez   
   > supporters. Petrocasas is a social project to build houses. Oliveros' death   
   has caused   
   > great consternation in the public.   
   >   
   > This week Chávez denounced new assassination plots against him, after a red   
   laser light   
   > was pointed at him in a public rally, indicating that a gun's sights were   
   possibly fixed   
   > on him. Cuban president Fidel Castro urged him to take more precautions.   
   >   
   > These incidents are consistent with a newly-revealed CIA plot described in a   
   U.S. embassy   
   > memorandum to CIA director Michael Hayden. Titled "Operation Pincer," dated   
   Nov. 20, 2007   
   > and exposed on Venezuela's pro-revolution TV program, "La Hojilla," it   
   details the U.S.   
   > multi-pronged campaign to discredit and disrupt the referendum.   
   >   
   > Michael Middleton Steere, the U.S. embassy official reporting to the CIA in   
   the memo,   
   > admits that by its own calculations a strong majority of Venezuelans, up to   
   57 percent,   
   > favors a "yes" referendum vote. The CIA memorandum says, "Our analyses show   
   that this   
   > trend is irreversible in the short term, that is, in the next 15 days these   
   percentages   
   > cannot be modified in a significant way."   
   >   
   > The counter-revolutionary disturbances taking place, and tactics such as   
   misleading poll   
   > results, are taken straight from the CIA planning book.   
   >   
   > But the danger of more attacks may be greater after the referendum.   
   >   
   > CIA and right-wing students   
   >   
   > Steere names the counter-revolutionary student organizers, professors and as   
   well as the   
   > deans Rudolph Benjamin Scharikker Podolski of Simón Bolívar University and   
   Ugalde from   
   > Andrés Bellos Catholic University. He writes, "Regarding the street   
   mobilizations,   
   > according to the Plan, we succeeded in persuading important student sectors   
   that are   
   > connected to the private educational institutions, to incorporate themselves   
   organically   
   > to our initiatives against Chávez."   
   >   
   > He reveals for example that student Ricardo Sánchez of the Central   
   University of Venezuela   
   > helped lead the U.S.-directed protests against the National Electoral   
   Commission, the   
   > Supreme Court and the presidential palace Miraflores.   
   >   
   > One of the most violent attacks was on Nov. 7 with the burning down of the   
   School of   
   > Social Work at Central University of Venezuela by right-wing students from   
   UCV, Andrés   
   > Bellos University and Universidad Metropolitana. Several dozen pro-Chávez   
   students were   
   > inside the building; the intent of the counter-revolutionaries was to trap   
   them inside.   
   >   
   > Clearly, Hugo Chávez's characterization of the student opposition groups as   
   fascist is no   
   > exaggeration. But important to keep in mind is the role of this Venezuelan   
   opposition as a   
   > battering ram for a larger offensive by U.S. imperialism. To try to bring   
   down Venezuela's   
   > Bolivarian Revolution, the United States will not be able to rely entirely   
   on them.   
   >   
   > That is why, the classic "beachhead" tactic employed before by the U.S.   
   government-in the   
   > Bay of Pigs-as a way to justify possible U.S. intervention or a coup,   
   presents a real   
   > danger.   
   >   
   > "As you know," writes Steere, "one of the objectives of Operation Pincer is   
   to take   
   > control of a territorial or institutional enclave, with massive support of   
   discontented   
   > citizens, for a period of between 72 and 120 hours [after the referendum],   
   the time we   
   > estimate as a minimum, in order to unleash the ascending phase of the   
   anticipated actions,   
   > where the military pronouncement will be made."   
   >   
   > What is at stake   
   >   
   > The Dec. 2 referendum is not simply a vote. It is a turning point that on   
   the one hand   
   > encompasses both constitutional changes for further political and economic   
   empowerment for   
   > the Venezuelan people.   
   >   
   > On the other hand, the referendum is only part of the overall revolutionary   
   process that   
   > has been unfolding for almost 10 years.   
   >   
   > The phenomenon goes beyond a mere ballot. The sentiments expressed more and   
   more by the   
   > masses and revolutionary leaders is that if the popular will-ratified   
   multiple times since   
   > Chávez's first election in 1998-continues to be threatened by the oligarchy   
   and   
   > Washington, then the revolution's pace will need to intensify.   
   >   
   > This goes to the root of the capitalists' fear. They know that the   
   constitutional changes   
   > are not really about unlimited presidential terms. The 69 reforms include   
   economic and   
   > social rights never before dreamed of by the people, but they are rights and   
   needs that   
   > the masses now demand: the right to social security for millions of   
   marginalized informal   
   > workers, the right of the people to be free of discrimination in all its   
   forms, the right   
   > to a 6-hour workday and the right to free education and healthcare. In   
   short, the right of   
   > the people to live and the right of the people to rule.   
   >   
   > The fear of U.S. imperialism is that the Venezuelan revolution deepens and   
   threatens its   
   > historic dominion in Latin America and elsewhere.   
   >   
   > The people have spoken   
   >   
   > If in the remote possibility the reforms were not to pass, the struggle for   
   socialism will   
   > not be deterred.   
   >   
   > Despite a flurry of imperialist propaganda being generated, the right wing   
   cannot cover up   
   > the obvious truth: the majority of the Venezuelan people support the   
   proposed changes.   
   > Most workers, peasants, students and indigenous communities have also   
   rallied in recent   
   > days in the hundreds of thousands.   
   >   
   > Although the right wing is howling that "democracy" is threatened, what they   
   really fear   
      
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