A supporter of slain Danilo Anderson cries while holding a poster which reads "Impunity until when." Posted on 11/20/2004 10:48:33 PM PST by Destro
Exiles in U.S. suspected in assassination
Friday, November 19, 2004 Posted: 2114 GMT (0514 HKT)
A supporter of slain Danilo Anderson cries while holding a poster which reads "Impunity until when."
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez's spokesman on Friday accused "terrorists" training in Florida of being behind the assassination of a top prosecutor who intended to try backers of Venezuela's 2002 failed coup.
Danilo Anderson was killed by two explosions that ripped through his SUV as he was driving through the capital just before midnight Thursday. The killing shook this South American nation and renewed the specter of further violence.
As authorities called for calm, hundreds of mourners, some weeping and others angrily shouting "Justice!", watched while a coffin bearing Anderson's body was brought into the attorney general's office building in downtown Caracas.
Information Minister Andres Izarra said the assassination of Anderson, known among Venezuelans as the "super prosecutor," was clearly aimed at attacking the judicial branch and derailing his investigations and prosecutions of those who supported the coup, in which 19 people were killed and almost 300 wounded.
Izarra blamed Venezuelan exiles in Florida, echoing Chavez's earlier accusations that Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" were training in Florida to execute him and were using the media to call for his removal.
"We want the government of the United States to explain how it is that these terrorist groups that act with total freedom in Florida ... make these statements through the media under the government's nose," Izarra said.
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So that's about it.
So that's about it.
I wanted to make sure you got that.
I'd rather see Venezuelans rise up and take back their country from the Communists.
Actually, there wasn't really a coup. The 19 people killed (and 300 wounded) were shot down in the streets earlier in the day by Chavez' "Bolivarians", and it was in response to that attack that his generals arrested him.
Unfortunately, he didn't stay arrested; Chavez was widely supported by young officers. The young officers who were his jailers just put him on a chopper back to the palace, after the Bolivarians and his crowds of supporters had occupied it.
That left the military with little choice. The Bolivarians were prepared to shoot (and did so, a number of journalists were shot during the next few days); the military was not prepared to open fire on civilians. And, in any case, the military itself was divided. So the effort to depose him collapsed.
What you posted in 100% true but while the military thought it had a good reason to - I would use the word 'depose' over 'arrest' - they did not have the authority to do so.
Oh well, you know what they say.
Practice makes perfect.
bttt
If Chavez is deposed, there are many people in South Florida who will be dancing in the streets.
I am sure if he is deposed the left will say that the whole thing was done by the CIA. Just like we could have taken care of that whole Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba situation with just a few crack semi-omnipotent mind controlling CIA operatives. The left likes to pretend that the only people in the whole world who don't like communism are the CIA.
The political opposition has been largely silent and licking its wounds since pro-Chavez candidates swept all but two of 23 governorships in regional elections on October 31.
Hmmmm. Would CNN ever state that the Democrats were "licking its wounds" ?
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