Op Information Clearing House gisteren een interview van Mike Whitney met Eva Golinger, een gelauwerd onderzoeksjournalist. Met de ‘Freedom of Information Act’ in de hand, haalde zij diverse smerige VS zaken boven tafel.
Volens Golinger is Chavez vrijwel zeker vermoord. In het interview noemt zij een aantal moordaanslagen op Chavez, tijdens de jaren van zijn presidentschap. In alle gevallen is de VS de grote boosdoener en initiatiefnemer op de achtergrond. En inderdaad, als je de buitenlandpolitiek van de VS ziet, zou de moord op Chavez maar een voetnoot zijn, bij de enorme terreur de de VS in veel landen heeft losgelaten op de bevolking…… Laatste bericht dienaangaande, was onlangs op de BBC te zien, waar in een documentaire wordt gesteld, dat het neerhalen van MH17 een complot is van de CIA, zelfs met medeweten van een Nederlandse geheime dienst……… Daarover later meer…..
Overigens is de VS zelfs op economisch gebied bezig regeringen omver te werpen, dat geldt ook voor Venezuela en Rusland. Met het massaal dumpen van olie, gas en kolen op de wereldmarkt, worden de economieën van deze landen geschaad en probeert de VS deze landen te destabiliseren, althans dat is de bedoeling, die godbetert in Venezuela is gelukt….. Intussen is de VS zelf in feite failliet en drijft het op een zeepbel, die op spanning wordt gehouden door China, de EU en Saoedi-Arabië….. Onlangs, tijdens de OPEC-top hield de VS Saoedi-Arabië met succes voor, de olieproductie niet te verminderen, wat het terroristische Saoedische bewind wel van plan was…….
Hier het verslag van het interview (voor een vertaling kan u onder dit artikel op Dutch klikken, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):
The
Strange Death of Hugo Chavez
An
Interview with Eva GolingerBy
Mike Whitney
“Hugo
Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow
down….I believe there is a very strong possibility that President
Chavez was assassinated.”
— Eva
Golinger
April
25, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– “Counterpunch“- MW–
Do you think that Hugo Chavez was murdered and, if so, who do you
think might have been involved?
Eva
Golinger– I believe there is a very strong possibility that
President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and
documented assassination attempts against him throughout his
presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d’etat, during
which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for
the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal
military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48
hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were
behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and
politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts
against Chavez and his government, such as in 2004 when dozens of
Colombian paramilitary forces were captured on a farm outside of
Caracas that was owned by an anti-Chavez activist, Robert Alonso,
just days before they were going to attack the presidential palace
and kill Chavez.
There
was another, lesser-known plot against Chavez discovered in New York
City during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly in
September 2006. According to information provided by his security
services, during standard security reconnaissance of an event where
Chavez would address the US public at a local, renowned university,
high levels of radiation were detected in the chair where he would
have sat. The radiation was discovered by a Geiger detector, which is
a handheld radiation detection device the presidential security used
to ensure the President wasn’t in danger of exposure to harmful
rays. In this case, the chair was removed and subsequent tests showed
it was emanating unusual amounts of radiation that could have
resulted in significant harm to Chavez had it gone undiscovered.
According to accounts by the presidential security at the event, an
individual from the US who had been involved in the logistical
support for the event and had provided the chair was shown to be
acting with US intelligent agents.
There
were numerous other attempts on his life that were thwarted by the
Venezuelan intelligence agencies and particularly the
counterintelligence unit of the Presidential Guard that was charged
with discovering and impeding such threats. One other well known
attempt was in July 2010 when Francisco Chavez Abarca (no relation),
a criminal working with Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles,
responsible for bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976 and killing all 73
passengers on board, was detained entering Venezuela and later
confessed he had been sent to assassinate Chavez. Just five months
earlier, in February 2010, when President Chavez was at an event near
the Colombian border, his security forces discovered a sniper set up
just over a quarter of a mile away from his location, who was
subsequently neutralized.
While
these accounts may sound like fiction, they are amply documented and
very real. Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he
refused to bow down. As head of state of the nation without the
largest oil reserves on the planet, and as someone who openly and
directly challenged US and Western domination, Chavez was considered
an enemy of Washington and its allies.
So,
who could have been involved in Chavez’s assassination, if he was
assassinated? Certainly it’s no far stretch to imagine the US
government involved in a political assassination of an enemy it
clearly – and openly – wanted out of the picture. In 2006, the US
government formed a special Mission Manager for Venezuela and Cuba
under the Directorate of National Intelligence. This elite
intelligence unit was charged with expanding covert operations
against Chavez and led clandestine missions out of an intelligence
fusion center (CIA-DEA-DIA) in Colombia. Some of the pieces
that have been coming together include the discovery of several close
aides to Chavez who had private, unobstructed access to him over
prolonged periods, who fled the country after his death and are
collaborating with the US government. If he were assassinated by some
kind of exposure to high levels of radiation, or otherwise inoculated
or infected by a cancer-causing virus, it would have been done by
someone with close access to him, whom he trusted.
MW–
Who is Leamsy Salazar and how is he connected to the US Intelligence
Agencies?
Eva
Golinger– Leamsy Salazar was one of Chavez’s closest aides for
nearly seven years. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan
Navy and became known to Chavez after he waved the Venezuelan flag
from the roof of the presidential guard’s barracks at the
presidential palace during the 2002 coup, as the rescue of Chavez was
underway. He became a symbol of the loyal armed forces that helped
defeat the coup and Chavez rewarded him by bringing him on as one of
his assistants. Salazar was both a bodyguard and an aide to Chavez,
who would bring him coffee and meals, stand by his side, travel with
him around the world and protect him during public events. I knew him
and interacted with him many times. He was one of the familiar faces
protecting Chavez for many years. He was a key member of
Chavez’s elite inner security circle, with private access to Chavez
and privileged and highly confidential knowledge of Chavez’s
comings and goings, daily routine, schedule and dealings.
After
Chavez passed away in March 2013, because of his extended service and
loyalty, Leamsy was transferred to the security detail of Diosdado
Cabello, who was then president of Venezuela’s National Assembly
and considered one of the most powerful political and military
figures in the country. Cabello was one of Chavez’s closest allies.
It should be noted that Leamsy remained with Chavez throughout most
of his illness up to his death and had privileged access to him that
few had, even from his security team.
Shockingly,
in December 2014, news reports revealed that Leamsy had secretly been
flown to the US from Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with
his family. The plane that flew him was said to be from the DEA. He
was placed in witness protection and news reports have stated he is
providing information to the US government about Venezuelan officials
involved in a high level ring of drug trafficking. Opposition-owned
media in Venezuela claim he gave details accusing Diosdado Cabello of
being a drug-kingpin, but none of that information has been
independently verified, nor have any court records or allegations
been released, if they exist.
Another
explanation for his going into the witness protection program in the
US could include his involvement in the assassination of Chavez,
possibly done as part of a CIA black op, or maybe even done under the
auspices of CIA but carried out by corrupt elements within the
Venezuelan government. Before the Panama Papers were released, I had
accidentally discovered and was investigating a dangerous corrupt,
high level individual within the government, who Chavez had
previously dismissed, but who returned after his death and was placed
in an even more influential, powerful position. This individual
also appears to be collaborating with the US government. People like
that, who let greed obscure their conscience, and who are involved in
lucrative criminal activity, could have also played a role in his
death.
For
example, the Panama Papers exposed another former Chavez aide, Army
Captain Adrian Velasquez, who was in charge of security for Chavez’s
son Hugo. Captain Velasquez’s wife, a former Navy Officer, Claudia
Patricia Diaz Guillen, was Chavez’s nurse for several years and had
private, unsupervised access to him. Furthermore, Claudia
administered medicines, shots and other health and food-related
materials to Chavez over a period of years. Just one month before his
deadly illness was discovered in 2011, Chavez named Claudia as
Treasurer of Venezuela, placing her in charge of the country’s
money. It’s still unclear as to why she was named to this important
position, considering she had previously been his nurse and had no
similar experience. She was dismissed from the position right after
Chavez passed away. Both Captain Velasquez and Claudia appeared in
the Panama Papers as owning a shell company with millions of dollars.
They also own property in an elite area in the Dominican Republic,
Punta Cana, where properties cost in the millions, and they have
resided there since at least June 2015. The documents show that right
after Chavez passed away and Nicolas Maduro was elected president in
April 2013, Captain Velasquez opened an off-shore company on April
18, 2013 through the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonesca, called Bleckner
Associates Limited. A Swiss financial investment firm, V3
Capital Partners LLC, affirmed they manage the funds of Captain
Velasquez, which number in the millions. It’s impossible for an
Army Captain to have earned that amount of money through legitimate
means. Neither him nor his wife, Claudia, have returned to Venezuela
since 2015.
Captain
Velasquez was especially close with Leamsy Salazar.
MW–
Can you explain the suspicious circumstances under which Salazar was
flown out of Spain to the safety of the United States on a plane
belonging to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)? Doesn’t
that strike you as a bit strange? At the very least, this suggests
that Salazar was acting as an agent for a country that is openly
hostile towards Venezuela? That makes him either a collaborator or a
traitor. Do you agree?
Eva
Golinger– Of course it was highly suspicious that Salazar was flown
out of Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with his family, and
taken to the United States on a DEA plane. There is no question that
he was collaborating with the US government and betrayed his country.
What remains to be seen is what his exact role was. Did he administer
the murderous poison to Chavez, or was it one of his partners, such
as Captain Velasquez or the nurse/treasurer Claudia?
While
this all may sound very conspiracy theory-ish, these are facts that
can be verified independently. It is also true, according to
declassified secret US documents, that the US Army was developing an
injectable radiation weapon to use for political assassinations of
select enemies as far back as 1948. The Church Commission hearings
into the Kennedy Assassination also uncovered the existence of an
assassination weapon developed by CIA to induce heart attacks and
soft-tissue cancers. Chavez died of an aggressive soft-tissue cancer.
By the time it was detected it was too late. There is other
information out there documenting the development of a “cancer
virus” that was going to be weaponized and allegedly used to kill
Fidel Castro in the 1960s. I know most of that seems like science
fiction, but do your research and see what really exists. I don’t
believe everything I read either. As a lawyer and investigative
journalist, I need hard evidence, and multiple, verifiable sources.
Even if we just go on the official US Army document from 1948, it’s
a fact that the US government was in the process of a developing a
radiation weapon for political assassinations. More than 60 years
later we can only imagine what technological capacities exist.
MW–
Can you explain why the DEA was involved in this operation and not
the CIA as many would expect?
Eva
Golinger– I think CIA was involved. They work together on
high-profile political cases, and they were operating out of the
Intelligence Fusion Center in Colombia together. Why it was DEA and
not CIA that brought Leamsy Salazar to the US has not yet been
revealed, but I don’t think that means the CIA wasn’t involved in
the whole operation.
MW–
On a personal note, Hugo Chavez was a giant among men and a real
hero. Would you please tell us what his loss has meant to you
personally and how his death has impacted the people of Venezuela?
Eva
Golinger– The loss of Hugo Chavez has been crushing. He was my
friend and I spent nearly ten years as his advisor. The void he has
left is impossible to replace. Despite his human flaws, he had a huge
heart and genuinely dedicated himself to build a better country for
his people, and a better world for humanity. He cared deeply about
all people, but especially the poor, neglected and marginalized.
There
is a picture taken of Chavez by a bystander, when he had been at
an event in the center of Caracas and was walking through a large
plaza that had been cleared by security. All of a sudden, he saw a
young man, disheveled and seemingly on drugs, barely able to keep
himself upright, wearing ragged clothes. To the horror of his
security guards, Chavez went over to him and lovingly put his arm
around him and offered him a cup of coffee. He didn’t judge the
poor guy or reprimand him, or show disgust. He treated him like a
fellow human being who deserved to be seen with dignity. He stayed
there with him for a while, just telling stories and chatting like
old friends. When he had to go, he told one of his guards to offer
the man whatever help he needed.
There
were no cameras there, no TV, no public. It wasn’t a publicity
stunt. It was genuine, sincere care and concern for a fellow human in
need. Despite being president and a powerful head of state, Chavez
always saw himself as an equal to all people.
His
unexpected death has had a tragic toll on Venezuela. Sadly, those he
left in charge have been unable to manage the country through this
difficult times. A combination of corruption and external sabotage by
opposition forces (with foreign support) has crippled the economy.
Mismanagement has been widespread and destructive. US agencies and
their allies in Venezuela have seized the opportunity to further
destabilize and destroy all remaining remnants of chavismo. Now they
are trying to tarnish and erase Chavez’s legacy, but I believe this
is an impossible task. Even if the current government doesn’t
survive the vicious attacks against it, Chavez’s memory in the
millions of people he impacted and improved the lives of, will
weather the storm. “Chavismo” has become an ideology founded on
principles of social justice and human dignity. But do people miss
him terribly? Yes.
Eva
Golinger is winner of the International Award for Journalism in
Mexico (2009), named “La Novia de Venezuela” by President Hugo
Chávez, is an Attorney and Writer from New York, living in Caracas,
Venezuela since 2005 and author of the best-selling books, “The
Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela” (2006 Olive
Branch Press), “Bush vs. Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela”
(2007, Monthly Review Press)
Since
2003, Eva has been investigating, analyzing and writing about US
intervention in Venezuela using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
to obtain information about US Government efforts to undermine
progressive movements in Latin America.
A
version of this interview appeared on Telesur
at: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Golinger-Chavez-Assassination-Attempts-Documented-Very-Real-20160413-0025.html
Mike
Whitney – lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless:
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK
Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle
edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.
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