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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David Johnson [mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Roger Helbig'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Peace-discuss] Audio Reveals Opposition Plot to Sow Chaos in Venezuela<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Of course audio tapes can be faked, as well as film footage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But it seems very plausible considering what has happened in the recent past in Venezuela and elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Confirmed and proven attempts at destabilization methods have been documented for decades. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Chile in the early 1970’s is a textbook case that is very similar to what is now happening in Venezuela.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You remember Chile don’t you Roger ? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When Kissinger and company visa the CIA installed you buddy Pinochet and his fascist dictatorship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Roger Helbig [mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> David Johnson; Peace-discuss<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] Audio Reveals Opposition Plot to Sow Chaos in Venezuela<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>and how do you know this is genuine - I have personally dealt with faked recordings (my neighbor alleged that my daughter's best friend had threatened to rape his wife on an alleged extremely vile answering machine tape that he clearly fabricated - what he did not know was that the friend was gay!) the neighbor then later figures prominently in the lies put out by Felicity Arbuthnot when she attacked me in The Ecologist - so, I know first hand that audios can be faked!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:47 PM, David Johnson via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>Tele-Sur </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=58 height=65 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D03694.60EFC390" alt="Description: Telesur"></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=92 height=21 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.png@01D03694.60EFC390" alt="Description: Telesur"></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt'>Audio Reveals Opposition Plot to Sow Chaos in Venezuela</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><img border=0 width=600 height=340 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D03694.60EFC390" alt="Description: People line up outside a supermarket in downtown Caracas January 19, 2015"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>People line up outside a supermarket in downtown Caracas January 19, 2015 | Photo: Reuters</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Published 21 January 2015 (22 hours 38 minutes ago) </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><img border=0 width=27 height=23 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image004.png@01D03694.60EFC390" alt="Description: Coments"><a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Audio-Reveals-Plot-to-Sow-Chaos-in-Venezuela-20150121-0040.html#comsup" target="_blank" title=Coments>+</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Opposition members detail their plans in the recording to create violent conflicts outside Venezuelan supermarkets in order to provoke larger conflicts.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro revealed a recording Wednesday during his <a href="http://telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuela-to-Increase-Social-Spending-despite-Economic-Slowdown-20150121-0025.html" target="_blank">annual address to the nation</a> that allegedly exposes a plot by members of the right-wing opposition to sow chaos near supermarkets.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Venezuelans have faced product shortages and long lines at stores in large part due to <a href="http://telesurtv.net/english/news/In-Venezuela-Opposition-Linked-Firm-Hoards-Millions-of-Goods-20150114-0053.html" target="_blank">deliberate hoarding by companies</a>; the opposition has deliberately worked to take advantage of these shortages in order to cause disruptions.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>In the recording, Ivan Carrratu Molina, a security official under former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, and Jose de Jesus Gamez Bustamente, a retired Venezuelan general, discuss plans to generate violence and disorder in Venezuela. with their goal being the overthrow of the democratically-elected national government.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>In the audio recording Gamez details their plot. The opposition would bring supporters to the lines outside supermarkets and have them break windows in order to provoke looting by those waiting to enter. According to Gamez, this would result in repression by the Venezuelan National Guard against working-class people, the political base of the Bolivarian revolution.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Gamez alludes to the violent street protests organized by the opposition in early 2014 and suggests that the same strategy would not work. Instead he suggests that the street conflicts should happen outside of supermarkets and not on main streets. During the three months of opposition violence early last year, the national guard remained almost entirely peaceful, despite the deaths, violence, lack of access to schools and hospitals, and burning of hundreds of items of public property, including buses and institutions. These violent protests, known in Venezuela as guarimbas, were widely unpopular among Venezuelans, even among supporters of the opposition. Their actions resulted in the death of 43 people, the overwhelming majority at the hands of right-wing protesters.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Gamez also openly talked about promoting the opposition as a peaceful movement to the world, while actually hiding a violent agenda.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>In a second recording, Gamez boasts about attending the School of the Americas, the military school run by the U.S. armed forces that has been widely condemned by activists for training military officers from the Americas in counterinsurgency and torture techniques. Gamez himself refers to the institution as a “school of assassins” and boasts about being an expert in “psychological operations.” He reiterates that the goal of the opposition is the ouster of the government.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, <a href="http://telesurtv.net/english/news/More-Evidence-of-Destabilization-Plots-Revealed-in-Venezuela-20150115-0016.html" target="_blank">denounced a plot last week</a> where he alleged that members of the right-wing opposition Popular Will party intend to hire mercenaries to stir up conflict outside supermarkets in the country.<br><br>Audio of the recording can be heard below (in Spanish):</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>