Smartmatic's HUGO CHAVEZ meeting with HIS HANDLER GEORGE BUSH
Couple of weeks after Dubya's inauguration
had a vague recollection of George Bush and Hugo Chavez meeting. Was thinking it was W but acktually it was Bush 41.
At the same time this meeting was going on, 43 met with Mexican president Vicente Fox. Almost like they are planning something
Venezuela Gets Bush Visit, Too
By Karen DeYoung
February 16, 2001
As his son sits down today with Mexican President Vicente Fox, former president George Bush will have an opportunity for some Latin American diplomacy of his own, meeting in Caracas with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The visit with Chavez was arranged by a leading Venezuelan businessman, Gustavo Cisneros, who is hosting Bush on a private fishing vacation in Venezuela's Amazon region. Chavez announced the meeting, to be held this morning at the presidential residence La Casona, on his weekly radio program last weekend.
Officials in the White House, the State Department and former president Bush's office in Houston would not characterize the meeting as official. "It is simply a courtesy call," a Houston spokesman said.
But the visit has undeniable symbolic importance and has given rise to speculation particularly in Venezuela that "Bush 41," as the 41st president is known around the White House, is assuming a new role as diplomatic envoy for "Bush 43."
At a conference last weekend in Cancun with his counterparts fromMexico and Colombia,Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vincente Rangel (who yesterday changed jobs and became defense minister) mentioned the visit approvingly. Chavez noted on the radio that the man with whom he would be "chatting" is "the father of the current president, George W."
The United States and Venezuela have dealt with each other warily in recent years, especially since Chavez, a former paratrooper and admirer ofFidel Castro,took office in December 1998.
In addition to hosting Castro effusively in Caracas late last year, Chavez met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Chavez also has been a leader in OPEC's drive to raise crude oil prices and resisted Washington's efforts to extend its anti-drug campaign over his borders.
Chavez's rhetorical support forColombia's leftist guerrillas amid allegations of more substantive backing and his opposition to U.S. military aid for Bogota have strained relations between the neighboring Andean countries.
But relations have started to improve on all fronts in recent days. Fox has launched a diplomatic initiative to build a new partnership with the United States, to assist in Colombia'__s peace negotiations with the guerrillas, to smooth __Colombia's relationship with Venezuela and to persuade Chavez to tone down his rhetoric, if not his ideas.
In conversations with Chavez, the Mexicans reminded him that the United States is the largest purchaser of Venezuelan oil, and that the two countries have a long history of close and cordial relations.
George Bush will meet with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
#1941 Gustavo Cisneros & family
Photo by Giorgio Viera/EFE/Newscom
2019 Billionaires NET WORTH
$1.1B
as of 3/4/19
Gustavo Cisneros owns the Cisneros Group, a conglomerate with interests in Venezuelan television, telecom, a brewery, real estate and a baseball team.
In 2007 Cisneros and his partners sold Spanish-language TV network Univision to a group of private equity firms for $12.3 billion (excluding debt).
Cisneros's daughter, Adriana, became CEO in 2013 and restructured the group into 4 branches: media, interactive, real estate and (((products & services.)))
In October 2016, Gustavo and wife Patricia gave more than 100 pieces from their Latin American art collection to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Cisneros, who is of Cuban heritage, has been a vocal proponent for the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba.
On forbes lists
#1941
Billionaires 2019Dropped off in 2020
Stats
Age75
Source of Wealthmedia
ResidenceLa Romana, Dominican Republic
CitizenshipVenezuela
Marital StatusMarried
Children3
EducationBachelor of Arts/Science, Babson College
Did you know
In 2000, the Cisneros Group moved its headquarters from Caracas to South Florida.
<Almost like they are planning something
>Almost like they are planning something
A "Coup" in 2002 perhaps
Digging on this Bush Chavez meeting
Old article from Worldpress.org
Appears to be leftist rag But informative
From the July 2002 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 49, No. 7)
Back, by Popular Demand? How Venezuela's Hugo Chávez Got a Second Chance
Hamburgers, Cured Ham, and Oil
Following the unsuccessful coup d’etat aimed at toppling the constitutional government of Hugo Chávez, a journalist from Spain said last week that “it smells like hamburgers, jabugo (Spanish cured ham), and oil!” Obviously, he knew what he was talking about: the participation ofofficials from the United States, Spain, and El Salvador in the revolt headed by business leader Pedro Carmona Estanga.
The claim doesn’t sound far-fetched, since U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Charles Shapiro (who formerly managed the Cuba desk at the State Department) and Spanish Ambassador Manuel Viturro met with de facto president Pedro Carmona after he had dissolved the National Assembly and the country’s principal institutions.
According to private investigations, one of the coup’s consequences was the privatization of [the state oil company] Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), turning it over to a U.S. company linked to President George Bushand the Spanish company Repsol; plus the sale of CITGO, the U.S. subsidiary of PDVSA, to Gustavo Cisneros and his partners in the north; as well as an end to the Venezuelan government’s exclusive subsoil rights.
For this to happen, it was necessary to suspend the 1999 constitution and take advantage of the conflict at the state oil company, where top management was following orders sent from the north through its former president Luis Giusti. And support came from businessman Isaac PĂ©rez Recao, for whom Carmona had worked in the Venoco oil company, and who actively participated in the coup and provided financing.
A high-level military source talking to Agence France-Presse expanded on what had already been published in the local press: that Pérez Recao controlled a small “right-wing extremist” group that was “well armed, with even grenade launchers…under the operations command of Rear Adm. Carlos Molina Tamayo,” one of the officials who had already publicly rebelled against Chávez in February and had been placed in charge of Carmona’s military cabinet. According to the military source, this group “was connected to a security company owned by former Mossad (Israeli intelligence service) agents,” (((although this doesn’t mean Israel was involved in the coup.)))
But this news was not particularly astonishing either: The Rambo impersonator who personally guarded Carmona was Marcelo Sarabia, linked to security entities and companies—one of them a Mossad franchise—and known to boast of spending nights in the U.S. Embassy bunker.
The U.S. intelligence newsletter STRATFOR.com accused the CIA of “having knowledge of the (coup) plans, and of possibly helping the ultraconservative civilians and military officials who unsuccessfully tried to gain power over the interim government,” and cited members of the [right-wing Catholic organization] Opus Dei and officials linked to retired Gen. Rubén Pérez Pérez (son-in-law of former President Rafael Caldera) as participants in the coup.
What was indeed confirmed is that the airplane booked to take Chávez off Orchilla Island and out of the country belonged to Paraguayan banker VĂctor Gil (TotalBank). And where was it headed? According to personnel of the airplane registered in the United States, the flight was headed to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.
>fuckin guy is named OTTO REICH
U.S. intervention was to be found not only in “advice” from high government officials in Washington such as Roger Pardo-Maurer (in charge of special operations and low-intensity conflicts in Latin America for the Pentagon), Otto Reich, and/or John Maisto, but also from Lieut. Col. James Rodger, assigned to the Military Attaché Office of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, who supported the revolt with his presence on the fifth floor of army headquarters, where he advised the generals in the rebellion.
Otto Reich, in charge of Latin American affairs at the State Department, confirmed having spoken “two or three times” during the coupwith Gustavo Cisneros, a fishing companion of former President George Bush and head of a business empire extending from the United States to Patagonia (DIRECTV, Venevisión, Coca Cola, Televisa). Reich told Newsweek that he was only seeking information, not encouraging or directing the coup organizers. “We had absolutely nothing to do with it,” he added.
>El Salvadoran Death Squads
>El Salvadoran Death Squads
which one of you fags has the Nancy MS13 meme?
This sounds eerily similar to the Guaido 'coup'
wasn't guaido at the State of the Union?
On the afternoon of the coup [April 12], the plotters, including Carmona, met at the Venevisión television station. “This government was put together at Gustavo Cisneros’ office,”said opposition legislator Pedro Pablo Alcántara (Democratic Action Party). The person who read Carmona’s decree and who Carmona named as attorney-general was Daniel Romero, who had been a private secretary to former President Carlos Andrés Pérez and a functionary in the Cisneros organization.
We have already seen repercussions in Washington from the unsuccessful coup, which may lead to the Bush administration’s first public scandal in foreign policy. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee may order the requisition of documents that detail contacts between Venezuelan citizens—such as the former president of PDVSA, Luis Giusti—and high-level U.S. civil and military officials.
Only after the negative reactions to the dissolution of the National Assembly and the suspension of the constitution by the plutocratic Carmona government—among the heads of state at the RĂo Group meeting in Costa Rica, military generals, and the civil opposition to Chávez—did we begin to hear talk of a pluralistic junta that would respect the validity of Congress, governors, and mayors.
Numerous phone calls were made between Caracas and Washington from Friday night [April 12] to Saturday midday. From the Pentagon, the need for compliance with a series of points was communicated to Gen. EfraĂn Vásquez, the main officer in command during the short-lived Carmona government, transmitted in Washington by State Department officials to Venezuela’s chargĂ© d’affaires in Washington, Luis Herrera Marcano, to Carmona by Shapiro himself, and to high-ranking army officials by Col. Harkins, also part of the U.S. delegation in Caracas.
Same rag
it's pretty obvious
Hugo Chavez attempted a coup in 1992 Bush 41s last year as president
How a Democracy Can Implode
Teri Schure
May 28, 2017
In 2000 the American think-tank Freedom House, classified 120 countries, or 63% of the world total, as democracies. Back then it seemed as though democracy would dominate the world.
But a lot has changed since then.
>communist rag
<And the biggest challenge to democracy comes from the voters themselves.
Many Americans believe that we need to limit our government, reduce regulations, and defend our constitutional rights and national security. Americans also think that our democracy is for sale, the wealthy are rigging our systems, immigrants are taking over our country, and the have-nots are getting benefits they don’t deserve. What all Americans wittingly or unwittingly have in common is they depend on the government on the one hand, while disdaining it on the other.
The United States has become obsessed with partisan point-scoring.
And the first sign that democracy is heading for trouble often comes when elected officials often in the name of majority rule, try to erode constraints on their power.
Rewind sixteen years to Venezuela.
In 2001 Venezuela had the richest economy in Latin America. In 2016, its inflation was estimated as high as 720 percent, rendering its currency all but worthless.
And despite having the world’s largest proven oil reserves, its citizens are starving.
Back in the 1980’s Venezuelan citizens began to worry that the system was rigged against them.
In 1992, leftist Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez stepped in and attempted a coup,against Carlos Andrés Pérez. A few years earlier Pérez had ordered troops to quell a mass rebellion in response to austerity measures that broke his 1988 campaign promises.
Chavez was imprisoned for his coup attempt, but his anti-establishment message struck a chord with the Venezuelan people.
After Chavez had served time in prison for his coup attempt, he ran for president in 1998 and promised among other things that he would turn power over to the people.
As a result of his promises, supporters of Chavez won him the presidency.
Chavez took office in February 1999, and during his first year in office, his approval rating reached 80 percent. He quickly went about drafting a new constitution that gave him unprecedented control over the three branches of government.
The citizenry response to Chavez taking control over the Venezuelan government?
Chavez was re-elected to a six-year term in 2000.
>the Iron Brigade and the Black Hat
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