Posted Dec. 24, 2002 By Scott Wheeler www.insightmag.com

Al-Qaeda and two other Middle East terrorist groups have established operations and are leading a holy war against U.S. and British interests from the tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Insight has learned from U.S. government sources and officials inside the government of Trinidad and Tobago. A U.S. official involved in tracking these activities says Umar Abdullah is "leading a group called the Islamic Front," believed to be "smuggling AK-47s, Tech-9s and Glocks" into the island country. According to the U.S. source, Abdullah may have fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union during the 1980s, operates "in solidarity with al-Qaeda and the Taliban" and is "maintaining relations with Hamas and Islamic Jihad."

According to the State Department, Hamas is a Palestinian-based branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian-based Islamic Jihad is a "close partner of [Osama] bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization." Both are terrorist groups.

Emergence of the Islamic Front in Trinidad has raised such concern in the United States, say sources on the island, that FBI and CIA counterterrorism experts have been dispatched to assist the government there in investigating groups with terrorist ties.

Trinidad and Tobago is a stable country, but has suffered some Muslim terrorism. In 1990 the Trinidad-based Muslim group Jamaat al-Muslimeen bombed police headquarters, attacked the parliament, shot and wounded the prime minister and held hostage members of his Cabinet in an effort to overthrow the government. According to press accounts, 24 people were killed and hundreds wounded during the attempted coup that lasted six days.

Jamaat al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr, who led the failed coup, was convicted and jailed along with other group members, but in 1992 they were released from prison on a legal technicality. According to U.S. government sources, Jamaat al-Muslimeen primarily is affiliated with Libya. A high-level source in the Trinidad prime minister's office tells Insight that Bakr is known to have traveled to Libya many times. But now, according to a U.S. counterterrorist specialist, the Islamic Front is "taking over the Libyan operations," leaving a complicated web for counterterrorism investigators to untangle.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Minister for National Security and Rehabilitation Howard Chin Lee have attempted to downplay terrorist-threat conditions in Trinidad in response to other press inquiries. Though Manning and Lee were not available to answer questions from Insight, senior staff members of the administration spoke to this magazine on condition of anonymity. One official says Manning is concerned that if reports of the Islamic Front are widely circulated, "it would adversely affect the economy," but insists that, internally, preventing "terrorism is the main concern" of the prime minister.

Some within the Manning administration openly admit there is a sense of great urgency about this. During the last year there has been "a wave of crime" in urban areas where "Islamic fundamentalists have been aggressively recruiting among the poor" and, according to a Trinidadian government source, some of the jihadist recruits "are traveling to Pakistan and Afghanistan" and back.

There is concern that the omnipresence of U.S. and British petroleum companies in the oil-rich nation provide easy pickings for terrorists. Local populists say this is the reason U.S. and British counterterrorism experts are on the island. "They came in to ensure the security of the multinational corporations," a source assured. If so, it is being handled secretively, as such an operation would be; neither the FBI nor CIA would confirm presence in Trinidad and Tobago.

One official who spoke with Insight on the record is Sen. Sadiq Baksh, a Muslim who says he is concerned about the threat posed by radical Islam to the safety of the citizens of Trinidad. Baksh says there is reason for "profound alarm over the escalating crime rate in our republic over the past 11 months."

A member of the United National Congress party, which opposes the administration of the prime minister's People's National Movement (PNM), Baksh tells Insight: "Recent studies have revealed that two out of every three persons in this country live in fear for their own personal safety and the safety of their loved ones."

Baksh and other officials agree that the surge in crime is characteristic of areas in which terrorist operations are mounted. For instance, there have been repeated "kidnappings of businessmen ... more than 40 in an eight-month period," a member of the prime minister's staff tells this magazine.

Baksh cites growing concern about the Manning administration, claiming that "two out of every three persons admit that they have no confidence in the government's ability to protect them." He tells Insight: "In the past 12 months, over 155 citizens of this country have had their lives snuffed out, surpassing the murder figures of 2001. ... And the minister of national security calls on the people to thank their lucky stars because it could have been worse." But Baksh also says the Manning administration is more than just indifferent to terrorism. He points to Jamaat al-Muslimeen's support for the Manning team in the October elections.

Baksh warns, "The ruling PNM ... has been compromised by its unholy alliance with known terrorists and insurrectionists." He and other critics insist that Manning courted Jamaat al-Muslimeen in hopes of securing support from the nation's growing Muslim minority, now 15 percent of the total population. Baksh asks, "How can the PNM government solve crime when it is in bed with the extremist and known criminal elements?"

Insight obtained a Trinidad telephone number for Jamaat al-Muslimeen and attempted to speak with Bakr. After this magazine placed repeated calls and spoke with three different people, a male leader of the group who refused to identify himself answered several questions, then began shouting and abruptly slammed down the receiver. Asked about Jamaat al-Muslimeen terrorist activities in Trinidad he denied that there were any. When asked about the 1990 coup attempt staged by the group, he responded, "I don't know anything about that. I was in the U.S. at the time." Asked about the Islamic Front and Umar Abdullah, he responded: "I know very little about him; he's a little upstart."

While Insight was unable to track down Abdullah or anyone from the Islamic Front for comment, the voice speaking for Jamaat al-Muslimeen confirmed vigorous proselytizing in Trinidad, explaining, "One of the tenets of Islam is to propagate the faith." When asked if jihadists and other Muslim extremists were responsible for the spike in murder and kidnapping in Trinidad, he responded, "That crime belongs to poverty."

Baksh, the Muslim senator, says "During the holy month of Ramadan we had a significant reduction in murder and kidnapping, and it is not insignificant that after the holy month we once again saw a spike" in criminal activity.  

Meanwhile, U.S. sources claim to be unclear about whether the suspected terrorist cells in Trinidad will mobilize and pose a direct threat to citizens inside the United States. In October, Trinidad immigrant Shueyb Mossa Jokhan was sentenced to "nearly five years in federal prison for a terrorist bombing plot," according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The report said that Jokhan pleaded guilty to "conspiring to bomb electrical transformers and the Israeli Consulate in Miami." The plan reportedly was "hatched in a Florida mosque" and involved a Pakistani immigrant who recruited Jokhan for the attack, but law-enforcement sources tell Insight they have been unable to connect the foiled Florida attack to the Islamic Front in Trinidad.

Trinidad and Tobago is in the southern Caribbean just a few miles off the coast of troubled Venezuela [see "Chavez Plans for Terrorist Regime," in this issue]. The island nation has been independent of the British Commonwealth since 1962.

Scott L. Wheeler is a reporter for Insight. swheeler@insightmag.com

Posted Dec. 24, 2002 By Martin Arostegui in Caracas www.insightmag.com Castro, left, and Chavez meet two to three times a week for strategy sessions.

At 9:29 p.m. on March 8, Hakim Mamad Ali Diab Fattah landed at Venezuela's Simón Bolívar International Airport on board Delta Flight 397. The Venezuelan-born Arab had been the subject of international surveillance because he had taken lessons at two New Jersey flight schools attended by Hani Hanjour, who crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

The FBI had arrested Fattah in the United States after discovering that he also had talked about blowing up an airliner and had used forged identity documents. Information about him was requested from Venezuela's internal security service, Direccion de Inteligencia Seguridad y Prevencion (DISIP). But little was forthcoming other than psychiatric records showing that he was a diagnosed schizophrenic who had failed to attend therapy for more than a year.

Top-level members of Venezuela's security services now are shedding some light on the mystery. Gen. Marcos Ferreira, who recently resigned as director of the Venezuelan national guard's border control, Departamento de Extranjeria (DX), says that DISIP picked up Fattah directly from the plane and escorted him into a waiting car parked on the runway.

Fattah represents the tip of an iceberg, according to security officials, confirming that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been setting up a terrorist regime to overthrow the constitution of the oil-rich South American country. A dedicated disciple of Fidel Castro [see "Fidel's Successor in Latin America," April 30, 2001], Chavez is plugging international terrorist networks into the country's security services, financial system and state corporations as part of his plans to clone Cuba's revolution and turn Venezuela into a terrorist base.

The president's scheme also involves government-sponsored armed militias, or Circulos Bolivarianos, modeled on Cuba's Revolutionary Defense Committees. These militias are taking over police stations around the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and invading the facilities of the state-run oil company, PDVSA. Indeed, the latter is presided over by an ex-communist guerrilla leader, Ali Rodriguez Araque.

Following the blueprint that Castro drafted for Chile's Salvador Allende, a minority president who similarly imported thousands of Cuban paramilitaries to overthrow the constitution of Chile and establish a Marxist-Leninist regime there, Chavez is facing an internal rebellion against his plans. With 80 percent or more of the national revenues cut off by an oil strike, he is faced with difficult choices. Chavez may be forced to order his navy to take over some 20 oil tankers that are refusing to load. Since he cannot entirely rely on the loyalty of his armed forces, he is expected to bring in the Cuban advisers.

Cuba's Direccion General de Inteligencia (DGI) special-operations teams already are positioned at the port of La Guaira, according to Venezuelan navy sources, who report that Cuban undercover agents are using the local merchant-marine school. Sources say that they could be studying Venezuela's oil-tanker fleet as part of contingency plans to prepare for commandeering of some of the tankers by a U.S.-trained Venezuelan intelligence officer. A Cuban special-assault unit reported to be occupying the second and third floors of the Sheraton Hotel in La Guaira also could be part of the plans to break the strike and impose a terrorist dictatorship.

During the last few weeks, Chavez has moved to control the military high command with his closest acolytes. Gen. Luis Garcia Carneiro, who has been leading the Caracas-based 3rd Infantry Division in operations to disarm the metropolitan police, now is the effective head of the army.

Possibly thousands of Arab terrorists as well as Colombian narcoguerrillas are being protected by DISIP, which has come under the control of Cuba's DGI, according to members of the Venezuelan security agency. European diplomatic officials in Caracas confirm that Cubans are operating DISIP's key counterterrorist and intelligence-analysis sections. According to a variety of sources, 300 to 400 Cuban military advisers coordinated by Havana's military attaché in Venezuela, navy Capt. Sergio Cardona, also are directing Chavez's elite Presidential Guard and his close circle of bodyguards, some of whom can't even sing the words to the Venezuelan national anthem. As many as 6,000 Cuban undercover agents masquerading as "sports instructors" and "teachers" also are reported to be training the Circulos Bolivarianos and even operating naval facilities.

"I quit my job when I got tired of doing dirty work for Chavez with the Cubans looking over my shoulder," Ferreira tells Insight, claiming that Interior Minister Rodriguez Chacin and other presidential aides repeatedly pressured him to launder the identities of terrorists and narcotraffickers transiting through Venezuela. He also was ordered to deceive U.S. authorities on the activities of a Hezbollah financial network whose files were requested by the FBI following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Chavez gave instructions to destroy records on 10 suspected Hezbollah fund-raisers conducting suspicious financial transactions in the islands of Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao, and the cities of Maracaibo and Valencia, according to Ferreira. The Venezuelan president also dissolved key military counterterrorist units by firing 16 highly experienced, U.S.-trained intelligence officers at the time of the terrorist plane attacks in New York City and Washington. Circulos Bolivarianos leader Lina Ron celebrated the event by burning an American flag in the center of Caracas.

Reports on the investigation rescued from Chavez's burn pile and showed to Insight specify that two of the suspects sought by the FBI -- Fathi Mohammed Awada [Venezuelan ID card No. V6282373] and Hussein Kassine Yassine [No. V6293922] -- withdrew $400,000 from the branch of the Banco Confederado in Margarita before gong to Lebanon in December 2001. The report concludes that the individuals were "engaging in suspicious transactions which validate the suspicions of the U.S. government."

The money transfers never were recorded by Venezuela's national banking superintendent, a Chavez appointee. U.S. diplomatic sources in Caracas confirm that official inquiries through Venezuela's banking authorities have failed to reveal evidence on terrorist money laundering. "We've only consulted officials of the government," admits a U.S. economic officer.

Intelligence sources familiar with the cover-up say Chavez is withholding information on the Arabs, some of whom were important financial contributors to his presidential campaign. The report, withheld from the United States, also mentions Nasser Mohammed al-Din, described as a powerful entrepreneur and a close personal friend of Chavez, at whose home in Margarita the Venezuelan president stays on his frequent visits to the resort island, which is a favored venue for his private meetings with Castro. According to presidential pilot Maj. Juan Diaz Castillo, Chavez and Castro get together two or three times a week.

Margarita Island appears to be the center of an extensive terrorist financial network stretching throughout the Caribbean to Panama and the Cayman Islands, where three Afghanis traveling on false Pakistani passports were caught entering from Cuba with $200,000 in cash in August 2001. According to British colonial authorities, efforts to launder the money through Cayman banks also involved a group of Arab businessmen.

Chavez's ties to international terrorism date back to the days of his bloody 1992 military rebellion against the government of Carlos Andres Perez in which nearly 100 people were killed. After being received with honors by Castro in Havana, Chavez proceeded to Tripoli and Baghdad. "He came back with a lot of money to form his Movimiento Revolucionario Venezolano [MRV] and run for president," says Col. Pedro Soto, a Chavez supporter at the time.

Chavez paid presidential state visits to Libya, Iraq and Iran in February 2001, signing cooperation agreements with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein and Tehran's ruling mullahs. Castro visited Libya, Iran and Syria some months later. An MRV politician and close Chavez aide closely tied to the Circulos Bolivarianos, Freddy Bernal, was in Iraq last March. He got caught trying to move arms into Saudi Arabia by U.N. peacekeeping forces policing the border.

Back in the days when he was a frustrated coup leader, Chavez also received help from Colombian narcoguerrilla organizations. He now is repaying them by closing Venezuelan airspace to U.S. antidrug flights. A military-intelligence report shown to Insight by the former commander of the 2nd army theater of operations on the Colombian border, Gen. Nestor Gonzales, shows that the Colombian drug forces are being protected by Chavez in camps inside Venezuelan territory. The sick leader of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN), Comandante Pablo, rests under DISIP protection at a villa in the upmarket Caracas neighborhood of El Marques.

Venezuela's army chief of staff, Gen. Jose Vietri, refers to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as "the de facto government of the Colombian border region. Gen. Raul Baduel tells the daily newspaper El Universal that national-guard officers sell arms to the guerrillas.

The main contact with terrorist networks is identified as former interior minister Chacin, a commando-trained navy captain whose intimate relationship with Chavez dates back to when they conspired together in the 1992 putsch. Ferreira says that Chacin fired his predecessor at DX for complying with international requests to deport an ELN terrorist.

Chacin officially resigned as interior minister last April at the insistence of military officers who had led a coup attempt against Chavez. But he remains the de facto security chief, according to sources who describe how he operates under the double identity of Rafael Montenegro, managing secret bank accounts and conducting considerable activity along the border with Colombia.

"One of the first things Chacin ordered me to do when I became head of DX was to legalize the entry of five undocumented Colombians on the grounds that they had assisted ransom negotiations for kidnapped Venezuelans," Ferreira recalls. "He explained that they needed to spend some days in Venezuela before going to Cuba." The general soon found that such instructions were not exceptional.

During 2001, Chacin asked Ferreira to smooth the way for another 25 to 30 Colombians whom he personally received at the border crossing of San Antonio from where they were escorted by DISIP to Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas to board flights for Cuba. Chacin similarly arranged the transit of Canas Serrano, an ELN terrorist wanted by Interpol for the deaths of 84 people in the bombing of an oil pipeline.

The language Chacin used perturbed some of his officers. "After returning from a trip to Cuba, he started calling us comrades, referring to opponents of the government as 'the enemy' and talking about attacking their families." The breaking point came when a lieutenant colonel of the Presidential Guard asked Ferreira to issue a passport for a member of FARC, Ana Belinda Macias Arismendi, who carried a false Venezuelan identity document [No. 12438823]. She urgently needed to get to Havana, Ferreira was told. "The fingerprints on the ID didn't even match hers," confides the general.

An analysis of DX records shown to Insight indicates that during the last two years 3,799 fraudulent Venezuelan identification documents have been distributed, of which 1,745 were issued through the DX border post of San Antonio. By cross-checking the redundant document numbers, Ferreira determined that 2,520 false IDs were given to Colombians and that the second-largest category of 279 went to Arabs invariably described as "Syrians."

Running further checks through Colombian police records, say law-enforcement insiders, two-dozen of the IDs were traced to known terrorists and narcotraffickers. Some examples: Julio Quintero Gomez [No. 81895307], identified as a member of an ELN urban guerrilla column; Ramon Quintero, [No. 81895573], identified as a member of the ELN national committee; and Alberto Diaz Sanchez [No. 818955586], identified by authorities as a member of a narcotrafficking ring.

With Chavez loyalists and Cuban advisers now firmly in control of Venezuela's intelligence services, further efforts to track fraudulent ID cardholders are unlikely. Possibly thousands of falsely documented terrorists now could be part of what security officials describe as a "parallel force" being formed by Chavez to spread terrorism throughout the Western Hemisphere and support his power grab at home.

Intelligence sources say experienced urban-guerrilla fighters have been incorporated into the Circulos Bolivarianos, hundreds of whom have trained in Cuba and Libya as "social activists." Special shock units called Tupamaros and Carapaica secretly are headquartered at safehouses around Caracas where machine-gun emplacements protect street approaches to districts they control in outlying parts of the capital.

The Circulos militias also are being held responsible for recent bombings targeting the television stations, the trade-union confederation CTV and the business association Fededamaras, which are charged by Chavez with organizing a general strike against the government. Threats have been e-mailed to government opponents such as a prominent woman journalist who has received graphic online descriptions of how she will be raped

The Circulos are backed by the 3rd Infantry Division, loyal to Chavez, and deployed around Caracas to disarm the metropolitan police. The move is aimed at displacing Mayor Alfredo Pena, a leading member of the opposition Coordinadoara Democratica, and preparing the ground for a showdown that could result in civil war.

Gen. Medina Gomez, who leads a group of 100 dissident officers gathered for a monthlong protest rally at the Parisian Plaza Altamira, is confident that the bulk of the military will not support the imposition of a dictatorship. "But the armed forces are suffering a deep internal crisis," he says. Gen. Nestor Gonzales believes the army is seriously split: "Ten percent are pro-Chavez, 10 percent are anti-Chavez and 80 percent could go either way."

Chavez has had plenty of time to destabilize the armed forces, which may no longer be in any condition to stage a successful coup. Air force and mechanized units are low on fuel. Tank drivers have been assigned to drive public buses, and many career officers have been sent to administer civic projects with inflated budgets used to corrupt them. Sensitive communications and electronic-intelligence equipment is reported missing from military and police installations, and parts of the navy are being turned over to the Cubans. A U.S.-built amphibious landing ship, LST T63, has been tracked by U.S. satellite on round-trips between the port of La Guaira and the Cuban base of Cienfuegos.

The fuse has been lit by enemies of the United States out to prevent a heavy flow of oil from Venezuela when push comes to shove in the Middle East.

Martin Arostegui is a free-lance writer for Insight magazine.

Good afternoon, following we wish to transmit to the Venezuelan nation an institutional message from the Directors of all the operating affiliates of Petroleos de Venezuela, leaders of business units and representative majority of the top and general management of the Corporation. Joining me in the podium the members of the Board of directors of PDVSA Petroleo: Jose Rafael Paz, Vice-president; Nelson Nava, Director; Luis Vielma; Executive director of Exploration and Production; Raul Aleman, Executive Director of Refining, Supply and Trading; Fernando Puig, President of PDVSA Gas, Luis Leonardi, Vice-president of Pequiven and Maria Lizardo, President of Bariven. Also, the directors and corporate managers of the main businesses are present. Petroleos de Venezuela is a highly complex and technified Corporation by nature of its operations and the magnitude of its importance in the nationaland international context. This Company counts on 40 thousand own employees and 20 thousands contracted, who add a valuable and incalculable capital of knowledge and experience in the development of inherent activities to the oil business.

PDVSA develop activities in all the value chain of of the oil industry in Venezuela and countries of the world: product and and storage, transport, refining, production, crude exploration and hydrocarbons trade, as well as gas businesses, petrochemicals, Orimulsion and coal. The productive and safe development of all these businesses in Venezuela, like in any other part of the world, requires knowledge and specific expertise from highly specialized professionals and technicians. This industry does not accept improvisations that put further on risk, energy supply to the society, safety of its workers, their communities and their facilities. The Venezuelan oil industry has invested numerous numbers in infrastructure and state of the art technology, today vital patrimony of all Venezuelans. The Directors of all affiliates of PDVSA, jointly with the managerial team of this company, consider that the events which have taken place in the last days in the corporation, based in decisions that we did not share with the Presidency of PDVSA, seizures threatening and causing considerable damages to the patrimony of the company, aggravating the crisis in the country. It is our duty and responsibility to address the country by this means specially, our workers, expressing our position as follows:

1. In light of the critical situation in the country, which lead a considerable sector of the population, workers in the industry, contractorsand other companies to participate in a civic and national stoppage, which has lead to an almost total paralyzation of the operations of the oil industry.

2. In an attempt to reactivate the operations, the president of PDVSA, Ali Rodriguez Araque, supported by unqualified personnel, has made positions assigments and removals in top operative management level of affiliated companies, without complying to requirements as established in these compamies Statutes, and against the consecrated principles and values of merit and participative management as established in the internal policies and procedures of the corporation.

3. The President of PDVSA and his new advisers have requested and allowed the presence of the Armny within oil facilities, putting in danger the safety of the workers, the neighboring facilities and communities. Furthermore, he has granted access to people strange to the corporation, lacking technical capacity and experience, with the purpose of attempting tooperate those complex facilities, thus increasing serious safety risks and unauhtorized access to confidential commercial information of the corporation, which could be used with non-ethical aims, causing a remarkable damage for the company and the Nation.

4. Among other actions, it is worth noting the unjustified arrests of our personnel, forcing operators under pressure to make tasks against their will, the take over by the Navy of some ships of PDV Marina, actions that could cause important damages to the facilities that are patrimony of all the Venezuelans. Examples of this are the five most relevant accidents in the last days and known to the public by the media.

5. As a result of the call made by the President of PDVSA, thru televized media, asking groups of people for a supposed “defense” of our facilities,numerous violent groups in many operational areas and administrative buildings have appeared, threatening the workers and altering to the tranquillity and security of the operations. We want to emphasize that without the voluntary aid of all the payrolls of PDVSA, the normalization and maintenance of such complex operations as the inherent ones to this oil company, cannot to be possible.

6. The Directors of the affiliates whose operations have been affected by the referred actions have pointed it out to Mr. Ali Rodriguez Araque in diverse opportunities, warning him of the dangers of the actions taken and demanding respect from him to their Management. All these warnings have been totally ignored. Also, legal recourse has been taken where referred facts have occured in operational areas, without even obtaining decisions from competent authorities. More over, in an attempt to preserve the governability and safety of the operations, we have instructed our workers to maintain its natural lines of report. Based in all the above facts, we have decided:

1, TO SUPPORT the natural leaders of the different businesses and operational areas in their functions of preserving the safety of people andthe facilities, ratifying our position to help channel and solve any situation in which they are put under risk by way of threats or fear.

2. TO EXPRESS OUR RESPECT and SUPPORT to the oil and petrochemicalworkers,as well as staff and executive employees, all Merchant marine fleet personnel, in their individual attitude and decision in the conflict facing the country.

3. TO REJECT the dismissals of our colleagues, all of them VENEZUELANS of high capacity, integrity and corporative culture, which far from contributing to a solution, it actually deepens the crisis.

4. TO MAKE a CALL to the National Armed Forces to maintain an institutionalattitude to help preserve the safety of our workers and the patrimony of the company.

5. TO MAKE a CALL to the regional State, City and Local authorities, so that they guarantee the legal framework and preserve the safety of the communities bordering the operational areas.

6. TO MAKE a CALL to the judges of the Republic so that they are diligenthandling and quick deciding in all legal claims and actions submitted in their courts .

7. TO MAKE a CALL to our national and international clients, as well as our suppliers, so that they make sure they adhere and fullfill all norms and procedures of the corporation in their commercial relations with PDVSA and their affiliates.

8. TO REJECT the disqualifying statements expressed by Ali Rodriguez Araque, towards top management of the Corporation and its workers for considering them offensive and thoughtless.

WE MAKE A CALL TO ALL WORKERS TO MAINTAIN THE UNITY AND SENSE OF PURPOSE THAT HAVE ALWAYS CHARACTERIZED US, SINCE IT WILL ALLOW TO PRESERVE The INSTITUTION IN BENEFIT OF OUR COUNTRY. THE SOLUTION TO THE SERIOUS SITUATIONTHAT WE FACE, IS IN THE HANDS OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE AND DIFFERENT FACTORS OF CIVIL SOCIETY. CONSEQUENTLY, WE MAKE AN URGENT CALL TO ALL INVOLVED INSTITUTIONS TO REACH AN AGREEMENT BY MEANS OF A CONSENTUAL ELECTORAL EXIT.

Thank you very much. Jorge Kamkoff

Por la esquina de la avenida José Baralt Unos matones se preparaban para emboscar A una marcha que iba gritando "Ni un paso atrás" Soplando pitos, con cacerolas sin descansar Creyendo todos en democracia y en libertad Iban marchando uno por uno por la ciudad Desde Llaguno, en el Calvario y Miraflores Se preparaban encapuchados y tiradores Con la cadena se dio la orden muy infernal De echarle plomo a todo el mundo sin preguntar A quien se mata, o a quien se hiere en el lugar Pero al palacio de Miraflores no han de llegar Un tanque pasa muy despacito por la avenida Lleno de guardias y sin presencia de policías (se hizo fácil) Hugo Navaja saca "la bicha" dentro el gabán Dice sonriendo que todo es calma y tranquilidad Mientras engaña pasa la vista de esquina a esquina Pero los medios le transmitían su gran mentira Hugo Navaja mete "la bicha" dentro el gabán Mira y sonríe y la verruga vuelve a brillar Así los pillos aparecieron pistola en mano Y sin reparos fueron matando a sus hermanos Cayó Tortoza con muchos otros en la celada Y se derramó sangre inocente venezolana No se Vicente, El Juan Burreto y Freddy Infernal Tenían las hordas para librarse de todo mal Desde Llaguno, las azoteas y en la avenida Y con la guardia contra la marcha se ensañarían Y Hugo Navaja y to'a su gente se fue pa' encima De la protesta que iba marchando por la avenida Mientras reían y disparaban sin compasión Se dio la orden de disparar hasta con cañón Hugo Navaja con "bicha" en mano aun sonreía Mientras la gente pitos en manos a el le decía Estamos firmes aunque este día nos vaya mal Pero Hugo Navaja de Miraflores te han de sacar Y créanme gente que aunque hubo muertos nadie ayudó Solo la suerte y la PM los socorrió Y aunque la muerte hoy nos ahuyente de Miraflores No olvidaremos sin duda alguna los sinsabores "PROHIBIDO OLVIDAR" aunque el pueblo cante desanimado el coro que aquí les traigo y da un mensaje a la nación la vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida ay Dios la vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida ay Dios Hugo Navaja matón de esquinas, el que a hierro mata, a hierro termina la vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida ay Dios Valiente pescador, después de encadenarte, se te chorrearon las medias Y hasta el tiburón tu llamaste la vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida ay Dios como decía mi abuelita, el que ríe de último ríe mejor la vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida ay Dios No te preocupes Hugo Navaja, que no te salva ni Cristo Redentor En la avenida Baralt y cerca de Llaguno aparecieron 19 muertos y como 200 heridos gracias a la emboscada de Miraflores dirigida por Hugo Navaja

El escenario ya ha sido presentado y una decena de querellas han sido interpuestas en el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia contra el presidente Hugo Chávez Frías por acusaciones de malversación de fondos y complicidad en las muertes en la marcha opositora de abril. Luego de casi 6 meses de que el primer mandatario nacional sobreviviera a lo que él y sus partidarios consideran un golpe de estado, la oposición busca desesperadamente, con algo de frustración e impaciencia su salida pronta utilizando todas las herramientas que la Constitucion Bolivariana les puede ofrecer.

Lista de acusaciones contra el presidente Chávez

1. Delito: Malversación de Fondos Públicos (FIEM) Caso presentado por Enrique Ocho Antich Fecha 10 de junio de 2002

2. Delito: Financiamiento estatal para actividades partidistas y proselitismo político Caso presentado por Enrique Ocho Antich Fecha 14 de junio de 2002

3. Delito: Financiamiento de la campaña electoral del MVR en 1998 con donaciones de personas jurídicas extranjeras sin ser declarado lo recaudado al CNE Caso presentado por Tulio Álvarez (El TSJ se pronunció el 24 de septiembre de 2002 hallando sin lugar la demanda por falta de pruebas, el abogado Tulio Álvarez interpuso ante el Tribunal una sentencia de apelación) Fecha 25 de junio de 2002

4. Delito: Crímenes de lesa humanidad (imputación directa) Caso presentado por Familiares de las víctimas y Asociación Civil Fuerza Integradora (Los 20 jueces supremos decidieron diferir el fallo hasta que la sala Constitucional del máximo tribunal -que integran 5 de ellos- aclare si en la investigación de esas muertes debe actuar o no la fiscalía) Fecha 25 de junio de 2002

5. Delito: Daño al patrimonio público, convenio petrolero con Cuba Caso presentado por Alejandro Terán y la Asociación de Juristas y Abogados Litigantes de Venezuela Fecha 26 de junio de 2002

6. Delito: Malversación de Fondos Públicos (FIEM) Caso presentado por Oscar Bohórquez Fecha 27 de junio de 2002

7. Delito: Malversación genérica agravada (FIEM) Caso presentado por La Causa R y Partido Solidaridad Fecha 17 de junio de 2002

8. Delito: Violación de los derechos humanos (11 de abril) Caso: 11 de abril Caso presentado por el partido MAS Fecha 02 de julio de 2002

9. Delito: Uso ilegal del uniforme militar Caso presentado por Hidalgo Valero y Asociación Civil Defensores Populares de la Nueva República Fecha 09 de julio de 2002

10. Delito: Recepción de contribuciones electorales ilegales / Banco Santander Caso presentado por el partido AD Fecha 10 de julio de 2002

Descripción de los casos Caso FIEM Los hechos: A mediados de mayo, la Oficina de Asesoría Económica de la Asamblea Nacional (OAEAN), dijo desconocer el destino de 2.43 millardos de bolívares pertenecientes al FIEM, provenientes del excedente por los incrementos del precio del petróleo en relación con el precio estimado en el presupuesto nacional. El ministro de Finanzas Nelson Merentes (para el momento de la desaparición) , afirmó que fue suya la responsabilidad de desviar los recursos, y que los mismos fueron utilizados para cubrir gastos administrativos ordinarios. Una reforma realizada al proyecto original del FIEM autoriza al Presidente de la República a decidir el destinos de los recursos, siempre y cuando sea autorizado por la Asamblea Nacional; autorización que no fue solicitada. Responsabilidad : El Presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez Frías (responsabilidad penal, política, civil y administrativa)

Caso Lesa Humanidad Los hechos: Persecución política, ataque sistemático contra una población civil políticamente disidente y asesinato. Basados en el artículo 29 de la Constitución, se solicitó directamente al TSJ la apertura de una averiguación, con lo cual se evade la intervención del Ministerio Público. Por tratarse de crímenes graves, grotescos y de carácter excepcional, no se permite como privilegio, que pueda conducir a la impunidad, el antejuicio de mérito. Responsabilidad: El Presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez Frías (responsabilidad penal y civil )

Caso BBVA Los hechos: Establece la donación de recursos en el año 1998 a la campaña electoral del partido MVR por parte del Banco Bilbao Vizcaya de capital español y que presuntamente se hizo también a través de Concertina NV, la off shore domiciliada en Curazao y propiedad del ex ministro Luis Miquilena y su socio, el asegurador Tobías Carrero Nácar. El descubribimiento surgió a raiz de la confesión del ex consejero del BBVA, Emilio Ybarra, quien declaró ante la Audiencia Nacional de España, que el grupo bancario contribuyó con la campaña electoral de Chávez "porque así lo había solicitado el Banco Provincial, a través de su presidente Juan Carlos Zorrilla" . Responsabilidad: El Presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez Frías (responsabilidad penal, administrativa y civil )

Caso Convenio Petrolero con Cuba Los hechos: Delitos contra la cosa pública al firmar un Contrato de cooperación petrolera con Cuba mediante el cual se le envían al país caribeño 53 mil barriles de petróleo diariamente sin ser consignados los pagos correspondientes a la entrega. Cuba adeuda a PDVSA , hasta el mes de julio, una suma cercana a los 142,5 millones de dólares lo que ha provocado daño patrimonial y también la violación de normas por imposición del Ejecutivo. Responsabilidad: El Presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez Frías (responsabilidad penal, administrativa y civil )