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The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela (Paperback)
by Eva Golinger, Saul Landau (Foreword)
Book Description (from Amazon.com):
Perhaps no world leader is better placed to challenge the global authority
of the United States than Hugo Chavez, the populist leader of Venezuela. As
the head of one of the world's largest oil-producing countries, Chavez has
been instrumental in raising world oil prices, undermining the control and
profits of the multinational oil companies, and introducing innovative
plans to use the wealth from this natural resource to help the
impoverished-rather than the already powerful-in his own country and around
the world. As the popularly elected president of one of South America's
largest democracies, his strong resistance to the Bush administration's
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) has severely set back, if not
derailed entirely, the US's long-held hemispheric agenda.
When in 2005 Bush ally and Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson called
for Chavez's assassination ("It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a
war"), public outcry forced some questions: Was that, in fact, a CIA goal?
Did the US have plans to invade Venezuela (as Chavez alluded to receiving
intelligence about on Nightline in September 2005)? And exactly what was
the extent of US knowledge of or involvement in the April 2002 coup against
Chavez? (He was back in power within two days, after 250,000 took to the
streets in Venezuela to protest.)
Venezuelan-American attorney Eva Golinger and journalist Jeremy Bigwood
have used the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain government documents
about US intervention in Venezuela. The Chavez Code contains this
irrefutable evidence that, at the very least, the US knew about the plot to
overthrow Chavez before it happened. The history of US interventions across
Latin America, the suspicious blacked-out lines and pages, and the ongoing
investigation suggest an even darker tale.
About the Author
Eva Golinger was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the City University
of New York Law School. Her investigation into US involvement in the coup
against Chavez has been covered by major media throughout the US and in
Venezuela. She divides her time between New York and Caracas. The Chavez
Code is her first book.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article144261.html (spanish website)- machine
translation of interview with Golinger follows:
Venezuela elections: interview with Eva Golinger
Bush continues plotting a blow against Chávez
by Sandro Cruz*
From Europe, Eva Golinger, binational lawyer Venezuelan-American, advisor
to president Hugo Chavez, amiably responded to the questions of the Network
Voltaire about her last investigation that demonstrates that the Bush
administration continues financing the subversion, plots in the bolivarian
republic and also positioning military bases and equipments to only 50
kilometers of Venezuela in the island of Curazao.
2 December of 2006
Photo left to right: the investigator and lawyer Eva Golinger; covers of
its two books.
______________________________________________________
Sandro Cruz: Eva Golinger you are author of the book the Chávez Code,
what could you say to us on the matter?
Eva Golinger: It is the result of an investigation that I've been doing
since 2003, I gave the name of the Chávez Code to first [book] approach of
this investigation, in this one [first book] is analyzed and the documents
declassified appear that I obtained from the government of the U.S.A. under
the law of access to the information (law FOIA) and in as we have the
forceful evidence of the implication of the American government in the coup
d'etat against the Venezuelan president [] Chávez, implication in the oil,
economic sabotage that was that same final year [of 2002 - 2003 principles]
and during revocatory referendum in August of 2004, that is to say, three
stages different from American intervention [] in Venezuela.
The book the Chávez Code, is not an opinion book, but rather - like lawyer
that I am, I present/display the evidence of the case so that the public
opinion can appreciate by they themselves and who they can have in hand
necessary documents that they demonstrate the different actions that the
government of George W. Bush during the past few years in his attempts has
had to overthrow president Chávez. It was also the first time that a book
touched east subject and presented/displayed it evidences of all this since
I have said (...) for example as Washington uses bottoms [in dollars] via
American a state organism [] call NED (National for Endowment Democraty) to
finance and to construct [to the interior of Venezuela] an opposition movement.
It is he himself model, pattern which they have used in [the past] in other
countries, for example in Nicaragua that was the first time that did it.
Through book the Chávez Code is explained in detail as it operates this
strategy, as at the present time they execute it and how [worked and works]
in Venezuela
(...), also the book presents/displays documents of the
company in which it is deduced that the government of the U.S.A. knew
everything of the detailed plans of the coup d'etat against Chávez, that is
to say, not only were to as much but that was complicity, financing to
those groups that gave to the blow (...) the book is a document that
denounces the illegal activities of the Bush administration, I repeat, is
not an opinion book just like my new intitulada publication: Bush against
Chávez: the war of Washington against Venezuela.
Photo: American president George W. Bush haranguing to its troops in a
speech against the international terrorism in the military base of
Charleston, the U.S.A., the 28 of October 2006. (Photo U.S. DoD).
_____________________________________________________
Sandro Cruz: In how many languages was the first book published?
Eva Golinger: It's been published in English, French, German, Italian and
by all means in Castilian, in this last language there are four editions
(two in Cuba and two in Venezuela), altogether more than 150.000 units and
this year he gained the National Prize of Libro in Venezuela, that is the
most important prize in the area of the letters in the country.
Sandro Cruz: What new features present/display the new investigation: Bush
against Chávez: the war of Washington against Venezuela?
Eva Golinger: This new book [Bush against Chávez: the war of Washington
against Venezuela] can be said that [comes to be the part two number or
continuation] of the Chávez Code which finishes in 2004. My new book is
information, are results of the continuation of my investigation,
investigation that continuous until nowadays. When I finished writing the
Chávez Code I continued investigating and receiving much more information.
Also [presents/displays new American declassified documents] but the novel
thing is that story this time with documents of the Venezuelan government
related to the security groups as well as the testimonies of people who
been have implied, involved in the last aggressions against Venezuela.
For example the Venezuelan case of paramilitary Colombians who I had the
opportunity to interview, military or soldiers who were used by the
American military as infiltrated spies
(...) are a book that informs about
the last fronts of aggression and attack against Venezuela from year 2004,
as much in the financial area - the increase of money [on the part of
Washington] in the Venezuelan opposition [] and the narrow relation that
maintains the government of Bush with the leaders of violent the extremist
movements [] of this opposition.
Sandro Cruz: Enormous amounts of money arrive from the U.S.A. to finance to
a Venezuelan opposition, so that the government of president Chávez does
not prohibit these illegal practices that such the U.S.A. does not accept
in their territory?
Eva Golinger: This is a very complicated situation, first [and is certain]
that he is illegal in Venezuela as much that in other many countries to
finance political campaigns, activities or parties by a foreign government,
in the United States is illegal, but in the case of Venezuela, the few done
attempts to prevent this class with intervention has been attacked and
strongly manipulated by the American government international level [with
its networks of commercial press and mediáticas] that distorts it and
manages to convince to the world [with its powerful propaganda] that the
Venezuela government this persecuting to its opposition when they are only
trying to make respect the law [and the national sovereignty]. Then this
situation is very complicated.
At the moment in Venezuela the Nacional Assembly [parliament] is debating a
new law on and exactly the financing of these groups, ONGs (nongovernmental
organizations) by a foreign government, but does not stop to prohibit them
but rather to maintain a control and this is doing attacked very hard, at
international level, by ONGs international and more than everything by the
Department of State of the U.S.A. It is a difficult situation because the
Venezuelan government either does not want to fall in the trap to leave are
used his laws, his actions, so that they present/display it as if outside a
dictatorship.
Sandro Cruz: You count in your new book the stranger and surprising
experience that had in front of the American director of NED in a political
congress in Sweden, could explain to us that it happened?
Eva Golinger: Indeed, I was invited by a political party of left of the
Swedish parliament to ironically participate to an international conference
by the World-wide Movement by the Democracy in Stockholm (Sweden),
conference organized peculiarly and by filial NED [of the company - the
U.S.A.]. As the Swedish participated to this international conference and
as each Swedish political party (they are seven) had right to invite a
person to present/display a communication, then Swedish [of left] invited
to me and when the American organizers [] found out, even though that or my
communication had been approved, that or had confirmation, aerial passage
and all the others, the organizers (NED), before notified one week to me,
that had been removed from the panel of lecturers, who could not
present/display no communication but that if he could participate like a
public spectator. They did not give any explanation me.
Photo: Carl Gershman, director of NED, a American agency that under the
cover to foment the democracy in the world is dedicated to foment the
destabilization of governments who do not respond to the imperial interests
of Washington.
_____________________________________________________
When I arrived at Stockholm, the members of the Swedish party of left
inform that the reason of all this came from the president of NED, he
himself Carl to me Gershman, who when it found out that I was going to be
in he himself panel who he like exhibitor, did not want that I spoke.
During the encounter, the other participants found out this situation and
many were against, since the subject was to promote the democracy [ and
prevented me to speak], then they insisted so that they put to me again in
the panel but they refused it again. The surprising thing was that once
Carl Gershman finished pronouncing his speech I asked like public saying to
him that I was the person whom had excluded, that NED, instead of
fulfilling their noble mission to promote the democracy is subvirtiendo
the democracy and he became, could crazy congress in the heat of, having
declared that:
the simple fact to think that I must share a platform with Eva Golinger
gives a repulsion me.
Sandro Cruz: Which was the impression of the Swedish and of the public in
general after to have listened to the aberrations of the director of NED?
Eva Golinger: It was really rather a success for me because everybody
realized which NED and Carl Gershman who is president of this organization
are authoritarian, something very in opposition to the democratic values
and many remained surprised with the high level of aggressiveness, of rage
that had that gentleman against my person, against the subject of Venezuela.
Sandro Cruz: Eva Golinger, changing of subject, also has found interesting
information about the island of Curazao, island located in front of
Venezuela and that is being used as military base by the U.S.A. for its
operations [of aggression] against Venezuela
Eva Golinger: Curazao and Venezuela have good relations [always have had
it], in that sense from government to government and from town to town,
which happens is that Curazao is a very poor island [of resources], very
employees of two industries: the tourism that are very little and the
petroleum related to the refinery that [Curazao] has and that from year
1985 has rented it company to the Venezuelan state petroleum (PDVSA). In
1999, the government of Curazao signed an agreement with the government of
the U.S.A. to allow to an air base [military man] in his island and for
[pretext] to help in the fight against the drug trafficking. That also must
because that year the U.S.A. was forced to close the Harwad base in Panama,
that was a very great base, then also opened a small one in Aruba, in
Blanket (Ecuador) and El Salvador. Curazao has a particularitity, that as
island is the greatest port of the world, can berth enormous ships.
Photo: US navy operating in Curazao, above USS Saipan, down, the aircraft
carrier George Washington.
_____________________________________________________
Sandro Cruz: Speech that American boats military already are operating in
that port like USS Saipan
Eva Golinger: Curazao is to less than 50 kilometers of the Venezuelan
coast, with good weather can even be seen Curazao from the Venezuelan
coasts, in a small plane is arrived in ten minutes, [and militarily] can
easily be sent from the island a missile towards Venezuela. They have
happened many peculiar things as much the last year as at the moment, for
example the government of the U.S.A. has already made four military
maneuverses during the months of March, April, May and June of 2006 and one
dimension that had not been seen from the time of the Cold War.
In one of these exercises called Operation Society of the Américas they
brought four ships military, an aircraft carrier (George Washington) with
6.500 soldiers attack only of this aircraft carrier, almost 100 airplanes
battle, Tomahow missile launcher and all those things, supposedly for [to
intimidate] maneuvers of a hypothetical terrorist threat in the zone. What
happens? At the same time which that these American military exercises are
passing [] as opposed to the Venezuelan coasts, the Department of State of
the U.S.A., at rhetorical level is classifying to Venezuela like a country
that do not collaborate with the fight against the terrorism, treating to
tie to Venezuela with countries that the U.S.A. or it has classified like
terrorist states, for example Iran, Korea of the North, Syria and Cuba with
as Venezuela mainly has relations as well as with many other states at
commercial or cultural level like Cuba.
Then, in Curazao an increase of the presence of different companies has
been seen the last year and the American military, who have even bought
businesses strategic to handle to the infrastructure of the country
[Curazao], electricity, water, telephone, telecommunications, hotels,
banks, insurances and at the same time are trying through a tie company to
the Bush family and the oil tankers of Texas, trying to clear the business
to him from the refinery to PDVSA, being bought it so that they assume the
total control and of expelling to Venezuela from the island [Curazao]. This
is a danger for the inhabitants of Curazao who are used as point of the
spear against Venezuela, already is being used [the island], with
propaganda in mass media in the island that says that Chávez wants to
invade the country. It is a worrisome situation by the proximity to
Venezuela, but also because Curazao as independent country and with a so
rich culture is falling in a trap of being used of this form to commit
aggressions [and to serve as platform] against a neighboring country.
Sandro Cruz: You whereas citizen Venezuelan and American, like connoisseur
of these two cultures, of these two countries and in where has lived, that
can say to us of the American public opinion (we know that the information
very is controlled and manipulated by means in the U.S.A.), but I know gets
to give to account the North American public opinion of this perfidia?
Where is that spirit of civic fight, those movement social of protest
against the abuses of Washington, how for example the pacifist movement
that as much characterized to the North American society during the war of
Vietnam in the university fields?
Eva Golinger: Those [broad] movements no longer exist nowadays in the
United States, which are very small movements, valiant, that conserve that
spirit revolutionary and humanist but they are very small. In addition by
the experience which they have the American bodies of security already
[secret services] know to control them and to suppress. That was what
happened with the social movements in the years 60 and 70 that were
infiltrated by a program of counterintelligence of destroyed FBI and, its
assassinated leaders.
From that time [has not been able to grow none new] strong movement in the
U.S.A. On the other hand also, a majority of the population is drugged by
the consumption, and with the media manipulation, the total control of the
information in the United States, if they do not know what it is happening
within its country like can know what [is passing abroad (...) a lack total
of objective information], an ignorance, an ignorance that could be said is
chosen, that is to say, that the own town to a great extent prefers to stay
in that ignorance instead of demanding, to question [one better
information], to wake up conscience [of which is passing], because that
means that] would really have to change to their style of life [their
system, because the world [cannot to reproduce that model of consumption],
the planet ecologically does not hold [] another system like this
(...)
that level of consumption ends the world (...) to demand forceful changes
and structural they would have to change that form to live and that would
affect the comfort of many people and everything seems that they are not
arranged to make that type of sacrifices (...) but the moment will arrive
at which they will be confronted to the planetary reality.
Sandro Cruz: And how expert also of the Venezuelan world critical what
would do to him to the movement Revolutionary Bolivariano? It is not
needing organization?
Eva Golinger: Good, first I clarify that there are many different cultures
in the world, Venezuela is not just like Europe, then perhaps when
organization speech, you are spoken of an European concept of which she is
the organization, or the same in the U.S.A. (...) it is certain that the
Venezuelans do not organize themselves in the same way that the European,
but they have their own models of organization.
We could say [on the other hand to criticize] that one better coordination
inside needs the Bolivariana Revolution and that is working of an optical
way [] Venezuelan, not with European perspective, neither American nor no
other part (...) because the Latin Americans work of another way (...)
perhaps this is something difficult d to accept for many European that all
do not work according to [patterns or anglian-European models] (...) the
Venezuelans look for the way to obtain their objectives, we are in a
process of changes, is fighting bureaucracy, deficiency, corruption, things
thus. I insist, about no Venezuela moment thinks to have a culture [models]
destined for European or American, they are rather looking for to rescue
[the Venezuelan values] (...)
We are very self-critical, because the only form to improve and to surpass
the difficulties, the errors and the problems is being self-critical.
President Chávez is first in criticizing the bureaucracy, the inefficiency
and the lack of unit, for example the internal divisions that exist.
Sandro Cruz
Journalist, coordinator of the Network Voltaire. He founded the news agency
Latin America the IPI.
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