Washington claims it aimed only to support democratic principles in Venezuela!

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 By: Roy S. Carson

General Melvin Lopez Hidalgo has confirmed that the government has evidence that the United States of America was implicit in the April 11 coup d'etat against Venezuela's democratically-elected President, Hugo Chavez Frias.

Speaking on state-owned Venezolana de Television (VTV), National Defense Council Secretary General Lopez Hidalgo says the government of US President George W. Bush was definitely involved in the coup d'etat which saw Dictator-for-a-Day Pedro Carmona Estanga usurp power only to be de-throned two days later after he had dissolved Congress, the Supreme Court and the 1999 Constitution.

According to Venezuelan military intelligence evidence, Washington was continuously in direct contact with the coup leaders throughout the 2-day coup and US liaison officers had worked directly with civilian and military coupsters throughout.  Radar surveillance also shows that a US Navy vessel had been lurking outside Venezuelan territorial waters and that at least one Black Hawk helicopter had been prepared to assist the coupsters to impose Carmona Estanga's US puppet dictatorship.

US Embassy press hack John Law has unconvincingly popped out of his sentry box to refute the allegations claiming that it is NOT the first time that General Melvin Lopez has made the claims ... "they were false then, just as much as they are false now," Law insists ... also denying evidence which shows that US warplanes had made several sorties into Venezuelan sovereign airspace during the two-day drama ... somewhat apologetically, he maintains that Washington had aimed only "to support democratic principles in Venezuela!"

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