Venezuelan CD threatens popular insurrection if President Hugo Chavez Frias uses violence

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Monday, June 02, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

At a meeting convened to pay homage to opposition negotiators, the Coordinadora Democratica (CD) has let it be known that it will defend the results of the recall referendum, even to the point of starting a popular insurrection. 

Fired up Asamblea de Educacion leader, Leonardo Carvajal, who was the main orator,  said the CD will not just wait for the referendum but fight for it and for the results. 

In a fighting mood to beat off "Doubting Thomases" inside the opposition camp, Carvajal warns that if President Hugo Chavez Frias attempts to thwart the popular will using violence, then the opposition would have no alternative but popular insurrection ... "the international community as well as the Armed Force (FAN) must understand that." 

Carvajal listed the virtues of signing the agreement, among which is that the agreement itself ratifies the Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council mandate, namely to seek an electoral solution to the crisis. 

Rebuking opposition adversaries who complain that the agreement has taken international bodies out of the equation, Carvajal contends that it is up to Venezuelans to solve their own problems and therefore, it is all the more important for the opposition to put up a united front to get the new National Electoral College (CNE) board of directors appointed as soon as possible.