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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Hugo Chavez is in for a big surprise ... he does not longer seem to scare anyone

One can only hope this is true.

10 posted on 01/09/2004 4:56:13 AM PST by livius
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To: livius
Bump!
11 posted on 01/09/2004 6:29:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Castro's Venezuelan Piracy*** THE FLIGHTS FROM HAVANA GO TO RAMP NUMBER 4 at Maiquetia Airport 25 miles from downtown Caracas, a ramp re-designated for military use by Venezuela's Marxist President Hugo Chavez and exempt from the usual customs controls or inspections.

On September 29 alone, six flights brought 950 Cubans, mostly males in their 30s and 40s. These "Cubans travel without caring about their belongings, which are loaded directly from the planes to the trucks of the mayor's offices," reported the journal El Universal on November 18. "The load is guarded by National Guard officers."

In this nation that once had a free press, the tightening grip of the Chavez dictatorship has forbidden the photographing of this airport influx of operatives from his friend Fidel Castro's Communist police state.

"The use of TV cameras as well as the presence of journalists from any mass media is prohibited," reported El Universal. "Nevertheless, a few photojournalists have managed to catch images from landings, defeating security controls."

Between September 26 and October 27, this journal reports from its sources that 11,530 Cubans arrived in Venezuela on 76 such flights. Chavez's seizure of one television station and threats against the rest of the press have reduced such critical news coverage of his regime.***

12 posted on 01/10/2004 3:35:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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