Chavez Warns Against US Anti-Venezuela Plan
Caracas -
President Hugo Chavez warned that the US
State Department has set in motion
operations against the Venezuelan government
trying to link it to drug trade.
Chavez affirmed that for several years some
sources have been warning that the Pentagon
tries to link it to drug trade to justify a
military intervention of his country.
The president accused in a press conference
in Miraflores Palace the cynicism of US
democracy invading Iraq under the pretext
that it harbored weapons of mass
destruction. It just so happens, he
explained, that there were no such weapons
however the empire "fabricates excuses and
continues to kill people in Iraq."
He also recalled the actions of the US
government dropping atomic bombs in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan 1945) and
accused the United States embassy in
Honduras that masterminded the military coup
against the constitutional president, Manuel
Zelaya, last June 28.
"Wherever the DEA (US Anti-drug Office),
drug trade follows. Wherever imperialism
goes, drug trade follows," he emphasized.
The Venezuelan government has confiscated
more than 30 tons of drugs during this
semester in 2009 as well as 26 planes linked
to drug trade, he explained.
He also qualified as blackmail the
accusation of the Colombian government on
alleged supply of Swedish weapons to the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -
FARC - by Venezuela.
He insisted that "it is simple blackmail
attempt against our protest over the
installation of US military bases in that
country."
Venezuela has always had good will, good
intentions towards Colombia; "however, this
accusation of Colombian president, Alvaro
Uribe" is a dirty and treacherous," he
emphasized. |
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