US prepares invasion of Venezuela says Venezuelan ambassador

BUENOS AIRES - Jan. 27 2005 - (Xinhuanet) - The United States is preparing a future invasion of Venezuela to control the petroleum of the South American country as it did in Iraq, said Venezuela's acting ambassador to Paraguay, Elmer Nino.

    Nino, cited Thursday by local Paraguayan daily ABC Color, said the present diplomatic crisis between Venezuela and Colombia was created by the United States as part of its future plans for an invasion.

    The Venezuelan oil reserves have a strategic value as they will last 350 years at the present exploitation level, the diplomat was quoted as saying.

    Venezuela is Latin America's second largest oil producer behind Mexico and the principal oil exporter in the region.

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez froze his country's diplomatic and commercial ties with Colombia in early January to protest whathe called
Colombia's "kidnapping" of a rebel leader in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, which he considered as a violation of Venezuelan national sovereignty.

    The (US - HR) government of Colombia rejected Chavez's demand to make apologies to end the dispute.

    With respect to Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte's position on the Caracas-Bogota crisis, the ambassador said it has been neutral. [ ]

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Le Monde Diplomatique: "HOW HATE MEDIA INCITE(D) THE COUP AGAINST THE PRESIDENT"

''Venezuela’s press power'' - (A very good article! - HR)

Never even in Latin American history has the media been so directly involved in a political coup. Venezuela’s ’hate media’ controls 95% of the airwaves and has a near-monopoly over newsprint, and it played a major part in the failed attempt to overthrow the president, Hugo Chávez, in April. Although tensions in the country could easily spill into civil war, the media is still directly encouraging dissident elements to overthrow the democratically elected president - if necessary by force. - Url.: http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/10venezuela]

* U.S. criticism of Chávez unfounded - BY MARK WEISBROT - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6felt

* CIA & National Endowment for Democracy -
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* The best news source in and on Venezuela:
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Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism ! US Senator Hollings agrees: "We have caused more terrorism than we have gotten rid of" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2bqza

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Evil triumphs when good men, women and we journalists remain silent: - http://tinyurl.com/3tgqa -

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We need them badly to fight our 'governments':
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