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AFP. 13 April 2002. Venezuelan officials in Cuba reject "illegal" provisional gov't. HAVANA -- Venezuelan diplomats and military officers in Cuba have rejected the "illegal" interim government of oil executive Pedro Carmona, sworn in a day after president Hugo Chavez was ousted in a coup, the Venezuelan military attache said Saturday. "We reject and categorically refuse to recognize the installation of the new de facto government in Venezuela," declared Colonel Kerman Rodriguez, who was one of the lieutenant-colonel-turned-president's military academy classmates. Reading from a statement to be signed by Venezuelan students, diplomats and military officials in Cuba, Rodriguez charged that Carmona's "illegal" administration attacked the Venezuelan people's "liberty, sovereignty and independence" when it took power Friday. Carmona left the presidential palace Saturday, seeking protection at a military fort in Caracas, after the grounds were surrounded by thousands of protesting Chavez supporters. Speaking at an event in the town of Guira de Melena, south of Havana, Rodriguez criticized Venezuela's "military coup" and expressed support for Chavez. He blasted Venezuela's decision to cut oil exports to Cuba as "ridiculous," because that oil "was paid for cent by cent and we can buy it somewhere else." Rodriguez accused the United States of being "the coup instigators" and said that a joint US statement with the government of Spain shows "clear support" for such a coup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
