| [Venezuela's Executive Vice President Jose Vicente] Rangel, who battled corruption as a leading TV investigative journalist before joining President Hugo Chavez Frias' reform government, emphasizes that “once the CNE made its decision to send the forms containing signatures with the same handwriting to be revised -- which is an impeccable ruling from a legal and procedural point of view -- the opposition immediately started to announce that they will not recognize the CNE and launched a fierce campaign against it ... just like they did on April 11 and December 2, 2002 ... this is just another coup d'etat and terrorist venture.......the third coup against the Constitution and democracy is underway in Venezuela ... the warning lights are on!” |
Let us hope not.
Fortunately, although I am so wary of this administration that I can't help but wonder what the catch is, State Department has issued a statement that the U.S. backs the CNE's decisions.
| The United States government has finally issued a statement ... delivered by usually highly Venezuela-critical US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher ... that the Bush 2 administration "respects the constitutional authority of Venezuela's National Elections Council (CNE) and its labor to verify signatures requesting a revocatory referendum" against President Hugo Chavez Frias. |
Perhaps they just realized that we don't have the military forces available to take Chavez head on at this time, and with the problems we are having securing Iraqi oil, the incomplete stage of the pipeline through Georgia, and the need to keep Venezuela's oil coming through, they thought better of backing a destabilization of that country.
For now.
It could also be that the timing of the Venezuelan delegation to the U.S. to meet with reporters makes it harder to lie about U.S. involvement with the opposition, particularly when that delegation is asking Congress to investigate the financing of opposition organizations by the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Not to mention demonstrations outside the American embassy in Caracas.
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