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Fíjense lo loco que está el Sr. Chávez…

En julio de este año se va de baja la Promoción de 1973, entre los cuales están los siguientes oficiales:

Grl. Efraín Vásquez Velasco (anti) Grl. Alfonso Martínez (anti y preso) V.A. Álvaro Martín Fossa (anti – Ex jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto) V.A. Quevedo (anti) Grl. Julio García Montoya (pro – conocido como “Cuchara” porque ni pincha ni corta) Grl. Víctor Cruz Weffer (pro) V.A. Bernabé Cubero (pro – testigo de la renuncia del Sr. Chávez el 11-12 de abril) Grl. Villegas Solarte (pro – Guardia Nacional “héroe” de Chuao)

Junto a ellos salen unos 40 oficiales más de las 4 fuerzas…

En julio de este año, llegan a la cúpula militar los siguientes oficiales de la Promoción del 74:

Grl. José Félix Ruiz Guzmán (altamirista – es decir, “sublevado” en Altamira) Grl. Enrique Medina Gómez (altamirista) Grl. Manuel Rosendo (anti – dado de baja) Grl. Romel Fuenmayor (anti – imputados en los hechos del 11 de abril) Grl. Henry Lugo Peña (altamirista) Grl. René Serica García (anti) Grl. Rojas Pérez (altamirista) Grl. Néstor González González (altamirista) V.A. Pérez Ramírez (altamirista) Grl. Ruiz Zerpa (pro – embajador de Venezuela en China) Grl. Chaparro Espinoza (pro – CAVIM) Grl. Fajardo Miranda (pro – “empijamado” o “empantuflado” en su casa sin cargo)

Se dice que la mayoría de esta promoción que incluye a unos 30 oficiales más, está opuesta al régimen. Como se puede ver, la mayoría de los más antiguos de esta promoción del 74 está perdida y desperdiciada sobre la tarima de la Plaza Altamira. Mientras esto es una realidad, “se monta” en el “coroto” la promoción del Sr. Chávez, “el loco”, la del 75, entre los cuales se encuentran:

Grl. García Carneiro (pro) Grl. López Hidalgo (pro) Grl. Rangel Gómez (pro) Grl. Verde Graterol (pro)

Y prevenidos al bate están los generales Baduel y Acosta Carles. Un coronel muy amigo del Alcalde Mayor Peña, está por ahí pendiente de un ascenso a general de brigada. Claro que su grave problema – gravísimo problema – es que todavía no ha podido controlar los cuadros medios y bajos… a esos tenientes recién graduados que son los que se montan en las tanquetas y que serían los que tendrían que acatar – o no – la orden de masacrar a sus hermanos/nas, tíos/as, primos/as, padres o madres cuando ya en total desesperación se lancen a las calles a recuperar la libertad para ellos… incluidos los propios tenientes.

Hay que ver – sin embargo -- lo loco que demostró estar Chávez cuando “Altamiró” prácticamente a la promoción del 74 -- la que nos debía tocar dentro de unos meses -- y “encaramó” a sus compañeros de promoción, que estarán “montados” no uno: ¡dos años!, justamente durante el período que los regímenes comunistas llaman “La Ofensiva”. Hay que estar bien loco para hacer esas cosas. Lo menos que le debería salir a “ese señor” es una ciclo marcha… ¡lo menos!

Robert Alonso

El Hatillo 29 de marzo de 2003 robertalonso2003@cantv.net

Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Venezuelan Confederation of Trade Unions (CTV)  president, Carlos Ortega has left Venezuela for exile in the Central American country of Costa Rica.  After 13 days holed up at the Costa Rican Embassy in Caracas, Ortega finally received  a safe-conduct  (salvoconducto) from the Venezuelan government and left a written message addressed to his opposition colleagues. 

"The struggle continues!" defiant Ortega writes "we will defeat the tyrant and his accomplices sooner than later." 

Ortega says criminal sycophants made real threats against his life to curry favor with their boss, President Chavez Frias.  Escorted by State Political & Security (DISIP) Police and the Costa Rican Ambassador, Ortega left the Embassy for Simon Bolivar international airport at Maiquetia. 

Ortega has been charged with rebellion and instigating criminal acts during the December-January national stoppage which he led and directed. 

CTV executive, Pablo Castro has ruled out rumors that Ortega will take up residence in the house of former Costa Rican President, Luis Alberto Monge, neighbor to former Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi, now in Miami. "There is a possibility that the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions  (ICFTU) will provide a house."

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WASHINGTON -- The Energy Information Administration March 26 was guarded in its optimism over the fact that imports from Venezuela last week seem to have returned to normal levels for the first time since Dec. 6, 2002.

At the same time, "the price of West Texas Intermediate crude has recently dropped below $30 per barrel for the first time since mid-December," the report added.

But do these statistics "signal a return to a more stable oil market? Well, not so fast," EIA's March 26 report stated.

"Total commercial petroleum inventories are currently nearly 91 million barrels below the middle of the normal range.

"To get both crude oil and petroleum product inventories to increase, more crude oil needs to be imported in order to build up crude oil stocks and increase inputs into refineries," the report stated.

EIA estimates that it would take more than three months for this to happen and that imports would have to average 10.4 million barrels each day in the second quarter. "And if supplies arrive at a pace averaging nearly 10 million barrels per day, which may even be optimistic," the report stated, "inventories would not return to the middle of the range [of supply] until sometime in September."

The report noted that retail diesel prices were down for the second consecutive week as of March 24, with Midwest prices falling the most -- 11.2 cents per barrel -- to 159.6 cents a gallon. New England prices remained the highest in the nation, according to the report, although they had decreased 9.9 cents to 189.2 cents per gallon.

EIA information explained that while "global [petroleum] product demand" historically falls from April through June because of warmer weather, crude oil demand doesn't, and that in the U.S. both crude and petroleum product demand increase in the second quarter. So, inventory levels are more likely to increase by more imports than by decreased demand, it concluded.

As to where those imports would come from, the report didn't speculate. And it did not mention any effect of the war with Iraq on inventories.

-- The Trucker staff March 28, 2003

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003 By: Gustavo Coronel

VHeadline.com commentarist Gustavo Coronel writes: Writing for Vheadline.com has given me dividends I never imagined. <a href=www.vheadline.com>Ms. Onefeather wrote a poem about one of my articles which I will treasure always. And now I get <a href=www.vheadline.com>an Oscar for my article on the Venezuelan Constitution!

I will not go into a detailed reply of Oscar's comments because I am sure that our readers will have arrived, by now, to their own conclusions about their merits ... there are just a few points which need additional precisions.

First of all, the title: Desperate last-ditch is both redundant and inaccurate. Last-ditch means desperate, no need for repetition. My article is not desperate but just the contribution of a Venezuelan citizen to unmask the hypocrisy of the President, who pays lip service to the Constitution while violating it almost every day. This is so obvious now that only the blind fails to see it. Also inaccurate is "attempt at discrediting Chavez..."  Dear friend: Chavez and his group do not need anyone's attempting to do this ... they have been doing a great job themselves.

My article did not pretend to be a "study" ... I said that I just read the Constitution, and compared my reading of it with what the President and his group are doing.  And, I repeat, is tragically obvious...

The Constitution can not be a document of intent. It is the supreme law of the Nation. I mentioned, specifically, many articles that can not be fulfilled, completely unrealistic.

When you ask the impossible, violations will be inevitable.

So, I said that the legislators were irresponsible to ask for the impossible. I hope this is not too hard to understand.

The explanations bravely attempted by Oscar for this major weakness do not require my comments. I also said that there are many other articles which can be fulfilled and are being violated.

Oscar pretends to absolve Chavez from many of those violations to the Constitution on the grounds that this was also done before by others...

Totally unacceptable.

The Colombian guerrillas have camps in several places within Venezuela territory, along the Perija mountain range in the State of Tachira, which borders with Colombia and in the State of Barinas, where the President comes from.

Frankly, the only thing they have not done yet is to call a press conference to advertise their presence. In the case of Carlos Fernandez, this gentleman was taken by a group of secret police without a judicial order and without the representative of the Attorney General Office being present. He was incommunicado for about 10 hours ... which represents a clear violation of his Constitutional rights. Why do I say this, you ask?  Because it is the truth, that is why ... the news which was broadcast by Globovision clearly said that no one knew where Fernandez was.

So, somebody is not telling the truth here.

In the case of the break-in at POLAR by the burping General, I know what I saw and heard. When asked by the female reporter if he had a judicial order, this fat Rambo said: "I do not need one ... I have direct instructions from the President."  This reckless statement was denied by Vice president Rangel, but my guess is that Chavez told him to go ahead. Acosta (Carles is his mother's name) did not hit the woman himself, but his assistant did. Why was she hit, you ask?  Is there a good reason why a woman should be hit? Have you been talking to Mike Tyson?

As far as telephone conversations are concerned, you demand proof. Since you do not live here all the time, you miss a lot of what is going on. Ortega's telephone conversation with Carlos Andres Perez about the need for a national strike was played days on end on the government television station. A conversation between Carrero (a former Chavez crony now in disgrace) and a judge about "twisting the arm" of some other judge, was also given publicity ... there are many other examples ... but I think you will be satisfied with these two.

You surprise me when you say that Chavez is entitled to his opinion, even if this entails slander. You worry me by saying that the President can go public accusing citizens of being criminals without having any proof, violating article 49 of the Constitution with great impunity and with obvious hate in his voice. He is the criminal, not the citizens he accuses. Hitler also had "opinions" about the Jews.

When you say that extortion in military and immigration control points have gone on for years, I can not accept this as an excuse for keeping doing it, under a government which was supposed to correct the vices of the past.

If this government is as corrupt as the previous ones, or more so, what kind of a "revolution" are you supporting?

The topic is endless, and I feel very confident that future governments will hold Chavez responsible for many grave violations of the Constitution which he carries in his pocket everywhere he goes. Chavez also carries a cross without being very spiritually inclined.

Oscar, your efforts at defending Mr. Chavez are commendable, and I wish you good luck in the future in your "mission impossible."

All I can say is: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar...

Gustavo Coronel is the founder and president of Agrupacion Pro Calidad de Vida (The Pro-Quality of Life Alliance), a Caracas-based organization devoted to fighting corruption and the promotion of civic education in Latin America, primarily Venezuela. A member of the first board of directors (1975-1979) of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), following nationalization of Venezuela's oil industry, Coronel has worked in the oil industry for 28 years in the United States, Holland, Indonesia, Algiers and in Venezuela. He is a Distinguished alumnus of the University of Tulsa (USA) where he was a Trustee from 1987 to 1999. Coronel led the Hydrocarbons Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington DC for 5 years. The author of three books and many articles on Venezuela ("Curbing Corruption in Venezuela." Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 3, July, 1996, pp. 157-163), he is a fellow of Harvard University and a member of the Harvard faculty from 1981 to 1983.  In 1998, he was presidential election campaign manager for Henrique Salas Romer and now lives in retirement on the Caribbean island of Margarita where he runs a leading Hotel-Resort.  You may contact Gustavo Coronel at email ppcvicep@telcel.net.ve

<a href=icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk>Source Mar 28 2003 By Hugo Duncan In Spain   A SPANISH judge was last night questioning two men arrested in connection with the murder of North Wales couple Tony and Linda O'Malley.

The pair, known only as Jorge RS and Jose Antonio UG, were taken handcuffed and in separate squad cars from Valencia Police HQ to the Palace of Justice complex, a mile away.

The Venezuelans, believed to be brothers-in-law and aged 53 and 38, were being quizzed about the disappearance and death of the Llangollen couple.

They vanished mysteriously while house-hunting for a holiday home on the Costa Blanca last September.

The legal interrogation of the two men was held behind closed doors at Valencia' s central court building.

Two other judges, one at Benidorm, where the couple had been staying before they disappeared, and Alcoy, where police claim they were killed, will also quiz the suspects. The process is expected to continue for several days.

The suspects were taken from a door at the back of the station and pushed into the back of the cars.

Jorge RS was heavily built with swept back, wavy hair and a puffy face. He kept his head bowed as he was led to the car. His younger accomplice, Jose Antonio, turned to hide his face.

It is thought Tony, 42, and his wife Linda, 55, were lured to a villa in Alcoy, in the mountains above Benidorm, where they were held in a cellar for up to two weeks before being killed - probably shot - and buried.

The men and their wives, all thought to be from Venezuela, were arrested on Tuesday at a flat in El Saler - 30 minutes from Valencia.

Documents linking them to the O'Malleys, including passports and a car registration plate, along with a gun, were in the hands of the Valencian judge last night.

Neighbours of the suspects were coming to terms with the horrifying tale last night.

Filipe Guardiola and Ana Gomez, live on the fourth floor of the Az Bola De Puchol, three floors below number 25 where the suspects were arrested.

Filipe, 22, said he thought the wives, who were bailed by police in Valencia, had returned to the flat although yesterday it was deserted.

Filipe said: "We heard the men were renting buildings and then putting them up for sale. When people came to look at the house they checked out if they had any money.

"We were very surprised when the police turned up. I have met one of the women and she seemed very nice, very normal. Everyone here is talking about it."

The majority of the flats are owned by Spaniards but yesterday the 14-storey block was almost deserted.

Filipe said only some of the flats were used outside the summer months.

The block, one of five in the immediate area, is a few hundred yards from the sea and has a private swimming pool.

Filipe said: "I met one of the men once. He seemed ok.

"I think he was in telecommunications - he had a lot of computers."

He said four police cars, two from Interpol and two Spanish, took one of the men away on Tuesday morning and the other that afternoon.

He said: "I didn't know what it was for but then Ana's mum phoned and said it was about the missing British people. We couldn't believe it."

The bodies of the British couple were found buried under the cement floor of the villa which lies inland from the booming resort of Benidorm on Spain's south east coast.

It is thought they were kept prisoner while Mr O'Malley was taken frequently to cash points and forced to make major withdrawals.

They are thought to have met the men after reading a for sale advert for the villa in the Costa Blanca News, an English language weekly published in Benidorm.

The villa was not owned by the men but hired with the intent of defrauding would-be buyers, accord-ing to police.

Benidorm was in a state of shock last night as the full horror of the kidnapping and horrific murders sank in amongst locals and ex-pats.

"People just can't believe that something so horrific could happen here. They are talking of little else," said a Spanish receptionist at the popular Hotel Rio Park.

Danny Collins, the news editor of the English language weekly newspaper, the Costa Blanca News, said: "We know there are property scams. They go on all the time. But this is something else.

"To do these things to people and then kill them for 20 grand or so - it's bestial."

One estate agent in the town said: "The news is just getting around. People are horrified, absolutely shocked.

"But I don't think it will affect Britons buying property. This was just an awful, one-off incident. I think people will be sensible enough to realise that."

One of the last people to see Mr and Mrs O'Malley before they disappeared was property dealer Joanne Miles who has since returned to Britain and says she has become a close friend of Tony O'Malley's brother Bernard.

Speaking from her Manchester home she said: "Bernard is very wobbly. He had mentally prepared himself for news of something like this but it has hit him a lot harder than he expected."