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Eg kom over denne patetiske gjennomgangen av "the events" ved Ari
Fleisher:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/apdaily/041202-9v.htm
Det er mest til å flire seg i hjel av.
Elles finst det ein god del interessant stoff om dette på sida til
Narconews http://www.narconews.com/
Oddmund Garvik
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Agence France Presse (Singapore) - Sunday April 14, 5:44 AM
CARMONA SEEKS PROTECTION IN MILITARY FORT
Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, opted for the
protection of a military fort in Caracas, leaving the presidential
palace, which was surrounded by thousands of protesting supporters of
ousted president Hugo Chavez, the administration spokesman said.
"(Carmona) is protected within Fort Tiuna," Jesus Briceno told Union
Radio from the presidential palace.
That is the same fort where Chavez was held Friday, and thousands of
Chavez supporters have been keeping a kind of vigil there since then,
demanding his liberation.
Chavez's daughter, Maria Gabriela Chavez, told a Cuban television
station Saturday that her father had been taken to the Caribbean
island of La Orchila, off Venezuela's coast.
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Agence France Presse (Singapore) - Sunday April 14, 3:34 AM
DEMONSTRATIONS, RIOTING OPPOSE VENEZUELA'S DAY-OLD INTERIM GOVT
Scattered demonstrations opposing Venezuela's day-old interim
government took place in cities around Venezuela and on the outskirts
of the capital, and threatened to close shops that opened in downtown
Caracas.
Chavez's whereabouts were unclear early Saturday. The civilian-led
interim government under businessman Pedro Carmona government made no
announcements, though an aide close to Chavez told AFP that he had
been airlifted from a military fort in Caracas to a navy base on the
Caribbean coast, 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the capital.
More than a hundred of Chavez supporters kept a vigil and blocked
streets around Fort Tiuna in Caracas Saturday, where shots were heard
overnight. Human rights groups reported at least two demonstrators
suffered gunshot wounds in western Caracas slums.
Eyewitnesses reported to AFP incidents of looting and disturbances in
the bedroom community of Guarenas, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of
Caracas, where demonstrators set burning tires in the roadway.
Reporters at a local newspaper in the town of Maracay, located 80
kilometers (50 miles) west of the capital, reported looting, and that
large numbers of Chavez supporters surrounded the paratrooper brigade
headquarters located there.
The commander of the paratrooper brigade, where Hugo Chavez once
served, refused to recognize orders of Venezuela's interim
government, an army captain told AFP on Saturday.
General Raul Isaias Beduel of Venezuela's paratrooper brigade has
"disobeyed orders of this de facto government," said army Captain
William Farinas. "He commands 2,000 soldiers in Marcay and has taken
up arms against this recognized government," Farinas added.
"Several armed forces officers are there," Farinas said.
Farinas is the former director of a social agency fund that promoted
projects attached to Chavez's failed political movement.
Early Saturday, Chavez's daughter told Cuba's news agency that her
father had been moved in the early morning hours.
"He was taken by helicopter to an unknown location," said Maria
Gabriela Chavez. She said she learned of the move from her father's
friends in the military.
It is not known if Chavez was moved to avoid the demonstrations or in
preparation for an eventual exit from Venezuela.
Chavez fell Friday after three days of violent street demonstrations.
Overnight, anti-Chavez demonstrators smashed windows of vehicles at
the Cuban embassy, according to news reports.
On Friday, Carmona's government suspended the national assembly,
called new elections and forcibly removed deputies loyal to Chavez
from the legislative palace.
By nightfall Friday, police raided several headquarters of the armed
groups of Chavez supporters that police say fired upon anti-Chavez
demonstrations. At least five people were arrested under suspicion of
taking part in the groups, including judicial police chief Miguel
Dao.
Police said they seized large caches of arms, and raids continued
Saturday, according to various reports.
Fifteen people were killed and at least 300 injured in three days of
strikes and mass mobilizations prior to Chavez's ouster as pro- and
anti-Chavez forces clashed, fire officials said.
The top Republican in the US Senate's powerful Foreign Relations
committee, Jesse Helms, was concerned about leftist violence.
"I urge all the supporters of Mr. Chavez -- his Bolivarian Circles --
to lay down their arms immediately and allow this tumultuous chapter
in Venezuelan history to come to a merciful end," Helms said in a
statement from Washington late Friday.
The United States blamed the coup on Chavez's own intransigence,
while presidents of 19 Latin American countries ended their summit in
Costa Rica denouncing Venezuela's interim government and calling for
an emergency session of the Organization of American States (OAS).
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SITUATION IN THE STREETS IS "OUT OF CONTROL"
COPS SHOT; CARMONA CAVES ON CONGRESSIONAL RESTORATION
Bloomberg News, Apr 13 2002
Venezuela's Carmona to Restore Congress Amid Rioting
By Alex Kennedy, Patrick Gordon, Peter Wilson and Toby Muse
Caracas, April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan interim President Pedro
Carmona said he would reinstate the nation's congress after soldiers
and supporters of deposed President Hugo Chavez took control of the
presidential palace, raising the prospect of armed confrontation.
Carmona's announcement prompted William Lara, the leader of the
dissolved National Assembly and a member of Chavez's Fifth Republic
political party, to say Carmona was not the legitimate president.
Lara told Union Radio that Chavez's vice president Diosdado Cabello
should succeed him as the rightful president.
`There is no interim president,'' Lara said. `The private citizen
Pedro Carmona committed the crime of usurping presidential power and
must be tried under a judicial process like any other citizen.''
Carmona is seeking to preserve his two-day old government by blunting
criticism that he and the military committed a coup d'etat, doing
away with the country's democratic institutions. Carmona late
yesterday dissolved Congress, which was controlled by Chavez
supporters, and other institutions yesterday when he named a new
government.
General Demands Restoration
Carmona's announcement came minutes after Army Chief General Efrain
Vasquez called for the restoration of the National Assembly, the
Supreme Court, the attorney general's office and other public bodies
that had been dissolved. Carmona and his staff were evacuated to the
Fuerte Tiuna military base south of Caracas, where he was under the
protection of soldiers loyal to the interim government.
`The National Assembly is being fully restored,'' Carmona said in an
interview with CNN's Spanish service.
Supporters of Chavez claim the president never resigned his office,
and instead was ousted.
`The president didn't resign,'' former Defense Minister Jose Vicente
Rangel was quoted as saying by El Nacional. Chavez's failure to
resign means that Carmona's government is illegitimate, Rangel said.
Supporters of the interim government said Chavez is not returning.
`Chavez is going to resign shortly,'' Vice Admiral Jesus Briceno, who
is a member of the interim cabinet. He also said Chavez `will be
taken abroad.''
Venezuela's new government hasn't been recognized by any other
country. If inquiries determine Chavez never resigned, the country
may face a constitutional crisis, analysts said.
Palace Seized
Thousands of Chavez supporters surrounded the Miraflores presidential
palace, while soldiers posted in the building, which serves as the
government's main office, urged the crowds to support Chavez. Many
raised their fists in solidarity with the protesters, standing on the
building's roof and balconies.
`We will fight to the death to support Chavez,'' said Pvt. Luis
Vallana, one of the soldiers of the military contingent protecting
the palace. Other soldiers said there were at least 600 soldiers in
the palace and the adjacent military building.
Long streams of Chavez supporters headed for Miraflores, walking
through middle-class neighborhoods, shouting their support.
`We want our president back,'' said Anna Mendez, a Chavez supporter.
`We won't accept Carmona for anything. We love Chavez.''
Protesters shouted that Chavez had been freed and Carmona had been
arrested. No police were present at the palace, which is located in
the city center.
`Chavez is in jail, but we have Miraflores (palace),'' said Maria
Cristina Iglesias, who served as labor minister under Chavez. At
least two other ministers under Chavez were present, walking in and
out of the palace.
Local television station Venevision broke into its regular
programming, saying its personnel had received death threats and
wouldn't cover the rioting. It urged viewers to stay home. Many of
Caracas's main streets were almost deserted by late afternoon.
Police Warning
The Metropolitan Police said the situation in Caracas was `out of
control'' and `critical.'' A spokeswoman said there was nothing the
police could do.
Three policemen were seriously injured, one of whom was shot in the
head, she said. Another police spokeswoman said that the police had
information that pro-Chavez soldiers were headed for the capital from
outlying regions.
Chavez, a former lieutenant colonel who led a failed coup in 1992,
was toppled Friday morning after three years of high unemployment and
crime and a dispute with the state oil company over political
appointments. Carmona suggested he would dismantle Chavez laws that
allow private property to be expropriated and try to reverse a
capital flight that economists estimate has reached $12 billion since
the beginning of 2000.
`We need confidence, investment, and jobs and that requires clear
rules of the game,'' Carmona said.
Carmona yesterday named Leopoldo Martinez, a congressman from
Venezuela's First Justice Party, as finance minister and Leon
Arismendi planning minister. He did not say who the new energy and
mines minister would be.
Looting, Disturbances
Taxis refused to carry passengers to Simon Bolivar International
Airport from the capital because of disturbances in the western
neighborhood of Catia, which straddles the main highway. Airlines
said operations were normal with no cancellations or delays.
`There's lots of police in Catia because there was looting this
morning,'' said Josefina Veneri, who saw protesters attacking stores.
`I ran, I was scared.''
Supermarkets and stores were closing in many neighborhoods as fears
of looting increased. Rioting in 1989 led to hundreds of deaths.
Chavez supporters last night blocked the highway connecting Caracas
with the airport about 12 miles away on the Caribbean coast for about
five hours. No injures were reported, although the highway remained
strewn with rocks, bottles and tires after it was reopened by the
National Guard.
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