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PADILLA PHOTOS
Posted: Friday, September 19, 2003
By: David Coleman
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias says he has secretly-recorded
video of a CIA officer instructing would-be coupsters in surveillance
techniques
President Hugo Chavez Frias has revealed that his government is in the possession of a secretly recorded
video of a US CIA officer giving instruction to would-be Venezuelan coupsters on surveillance techniques ...
evidence that the CIA remains involved in clandestine activity (i.e. espionage) in Venezuela even after the USbacked coup attempt in April 2002. He also says he has clear and certain evidence of US involvement before
and during the coup d'etat ... "some day these pieces of evidence will be released to the public."
Chavez Frias says the CIA's surveillance techniques training couldn;t have been very good since his security services
were able to film the CIA officer "in action!"
Journalists have probed the reasons why President Chavez Frias had canceled his trip to the United States
next week ... he was scheduled to have given a speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly in New
York and to visit the projected site of the new PDVSA-owned CITGO HQ in Houston. He was also to have
given a speech in Harlem.
WETZEL GALLERY
Chavez Frias refused to give details of the "security reasons" which form the basis for the decision to cancel
the US trip, but said he regrets having to drop out of the Harlem engagement ... he admitted that he's not
bothered about UN speeches other than that he simply doesn't like them: "I go there, and I don't feel like
speaking because practically no one listens ... it's a dialogue of the deaf; it's silly . You go there to listen to one
discourse after another, one day after the other and for what? What is the purpose?"
On the home front Chavez says it does not surprise him that an opposition coalition has sent a letter to the
Organization of American States (OAS), the UNDP and the Carter Center ... "their problem is that the
opposition wants a referendum according to their own preferences ... in the past the National Elections
Council (CNE) has been at the behest of Accion Democratica (AD) and the Christian Socialists (COPEI) to
organize election fraud. Now there is a significantly independent CNE ... and the opposition complains, since
they are not used to that degree of autonomy."
"It is going to be extremely difficult for the opposition to comply with the requirements for a recall
referendum," Chavez Frias told reporters. "Several opposition representatives have told me privately that
they are not actually interested in a recall referendum because they would rather concentrate on upcoming
elections for state governors in June-July 2004. I doubts that there's a real will on the part of the opposition
to even organize it properly ... but there is nonetheless a possibility that there will be a referendum, but only if
the opposition takes its role seriously and puts aside all their illegalities."
Chavez Frias promises to clarify Venezuela's position on the recent World Trade Organization (WTO summit
in Cancun (Mexico). He says it's not the first time there have been contradictions ... along with other third
world countries, organized in the "Group of 21", Venezuela's Minister of Production & Commerce (MPC) has
taken a strong position on the issue of eliminating agricultural subsidies for first world countries.
Diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Colombia remain complicated because of deeper interests that
are more interested in sabotaging any relationship between Bogota and Caracas. Chavez Frias explains that
his government is carrying on a mediatory initiative initiated under the Presidency of Dr. Rafael Caldera and
emphasizes that "Venezuela is not providing any kind of support to Colombian guerillas, despite what the
opposition claims ... instead, our position is one of neutrality, neither opposing or supporting the guerillas ...
we don't want to support the path of war in Colombia, we want to support the path of peace."
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