Chavez: Negroponte a Professional Killer

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Chavez: Negroponte a Professional Killer
By ELIZABETH M. NUNEZ, Associated Press Writer
Sunday, March 4, 2007


(03-04) 14:52 PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) --
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he believes enemies including the CIA are out to kill him, and called U.S. diplomat John Negroponte a "professional killer."
Chavez said Venezuelan officials have intelligence that associates of jailed Cuban anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles also are involved in plotting to assassinate him.
He said the death plot idea has "gained weight" due to various factors, including the recent appointment of Negroponte, the former director of national intelligence, as deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"Who did they swear in ... there at the White House as deputy secretary of state? A professional killer: John Negroponte," Chavez said.
Chavez did not elaborate, but his government has previously accused Negroponte of playing a key role in the Contra war against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua when he served as ambassador to Honduras — a haven for clandestine Contra bases — from 1981 to 1985.
U.S. Embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment, but they have denied Chavez's repeated accusations that they are plotting to oust him.
Chavez was asked about reports of assassination plots during a televised interview.
"They have assigned special units of the CIA, true assassins, who go around not only here in Venezuela, in Central America, in South America," Chavez said, without elaborating.
He added that while Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative, remains jailed in the U.S. on immigration charges, "Posada Carriles' people are very active in Central America and searching for contacts in Venezuela ... They are going around searching for explosives in large quantities, thinking about a sort of car bombing or searching for ground-to-air missiles, thinking about the presidential plane."
Chavez did not give details. His government has demanded that the U.S. extradite Posada Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan, to stand trial for allegedly masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Posada Carriles denies involvement in that incident.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/04/international/i145204S26.DTL

[itsmesgd]

1. professional killer nothing, he's an all star

Please see also: School of the Americas in Columbus Georgia. (Ft. Benning)

He's elevated coups and contract killing to an artform.

[goforit]

13. Yep, good old Fort Benning.

Isn't that where OBL trained.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. You mean like this, Senora Nunez?:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/28/1449257

As ambassador to Honduras, Negroponte played a key role in coordinating US covert aid to the Contra death squads in Nicaragua and shoring up a CIA-backed death squad in Honduras. During his term as ambassador there, diplomats alleged that the embassy's annual human rights reports made Honduras sound more like Norway than Argentina. In a 1995 series, the Baltimore Sun detailed the activities of a secret CIA-trained Honduran army unit, Battalion 3-16, that used "shock and suffocation devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves." In 1994, Honduras's National Commission for the Protection of Human Rights reported that it was officially admitted that 179 civilians were still missing.

A former official who served under Negroponte says he was ordered to remove all mention of torture and executions from the draft of his 1982 report on the human rights situation in Honduras. During Negroponte's tenure, US military aid to Honduras skyrocketed from $3.9 million to over $77 million. Much of this went to ensure the Honduran army's loyalty in the battle against popular movements throughout Central America.

"Chavez did not elaborate, but his government has previously accused Negroponte of playing a key role in the Contra war against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua when he served as ambassador to Honduras — a haven for clandestine Contra bases — from 1981 to 1985."

Why the hell can't an AP reporter spend 30 seconds Googling like I just did if she has no knowledge of the recent history of Central America? What do they teach these people in J School?

[happydreams]

7. Boom! That sums it up nicely. Excellent reply.

:hi:

and thanks for the info.

[killbotfactory]

8. Or this?

The 392 cables and memos record Negroponte's daily, and even hourly, activities as the powerful Ambassador to Honduras during the contra war in the early 1980s. They include dozens of cables in which the Ambassador sought to undermine regional peace efforts such as the Contadora initiative that ultimately won Costa Rican president Oscar Arias a Nobel Prize, as well as multiple reports of meetings and conversations with Honduran military officers who were instrumental in providing logistical support and infrastructure for CIA covert operations in support of the contras against Nicaragua -"our special project" as Negroponte refers to the contra war in the cable traffic. Among the records are special back channel communications with then CIA director William Casey, including a recommendation to increase the number of arms being supplied to the leading contra force, the FDN in mid 1983, and advice on how to rewrite a Presidential finding on covert operations to overthrow the Sandinistas to make it more politically palatable to an increasingly uneasy U.S. Congress.

Conspicuously absent from the cable traffic, however, is reporting on human rights atrocities that were committed by the Honduran military and its secret police unit known as Battalion 316, between 1982 and 1984, under the military leadership of General Gustavo Alvarez, Negroponte's main liaison with the Honduran government. The Honduran human rights ombudsman later found that more than 50 people disappeared at the hands of the military during those years. But Negroponte's cables reflect no protest, or even discussion of these issues during his many meetings with General Alvarez, his deputies and Honduran President Robert Suazo. Nor do the released cables contain any reporting to Washington on the human rights abuses that were taking place.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB151/index.htm

[goforit]

14. One thing you can love or hate about Chavez, he's blatant when it's the TRUTH.

You some times wonder if negropointe is his real name?
Negropointe......is black point in spanish.

And we all know that a black point is the End of a sentence.
THE END......is an appropriate nickname for a proffessional killer.

[whistle]

3. Chevez has that right about Negroponte being a professional killer

[Cha]

4. The whole world knows

it..and the lazycorporatemediawhores(Yawn) in the USA couldn't care less.

[malaise]

5. They know too

What a coverup.

[KoKo]

6. Good for him ....calling a "Spade a Spade." lol's PUSH BACK

:D

[Peace Patriot]

9. Nailed him.

But in addition to being aghast at who is representing us, we need to ask how they stayed in power, and we need to fix that fatal flaw. And I think it's the rightwing Bushite electronic voting corporations, which gained control of election results during the 2002 to 2004 period, and "counted" 80% of the votes in the 2004 election, using 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code. They didn't go to all the trouble of very quickly completely removing the transparency of our vote counting system for no reason--or only for the reason of the billions of dollars in boondoggle funding. In truth, we now have a fraudulent voting SYSTEM. In many places, there is no way even to recount the votes. In most places, there are virtually no checks and balances, and no transparency. I think this WAS the fascist coup. In 2006, what we saw was the people outvoting the machines, trying to get a half-decent Congress, and that's all we could get--a half-decent Congress, a Congress that is still not very representative of the American people.

In Venezuela, they handcount FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT of the ballots against the machine totals, and that's an open source code system. (Anyone may review the code by which the votes are tabulated.) Here, we do a ZERO audit in many places, and a mere 1% audit in the very best states. That's why Venezuela has a president who speaks the truth, and we have one who doesn't know what the truth is, let alone speaks it. I think it's that simple. "It's the vote counting, stupid!" The only complication in repairing this disaster of an election system is the collusive role played by some of our Democratic Party leaders, most notably Sen. Christopher Dodd, who worked with the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress to pass the "Help America Vote for Bush Act" of 2002, which I think he now expects to benefit from. (He's running for president with no support base that I know of.) Billions of dollars involved in the fast-tracking of these electronic voting systems. Lot of corruption. Bipartisan corruption. But John Edwards today broke the dam on the mind-boggling silence of our Democratic Party leaders on this extremely important matter. And I think we're on our back back to being a democracy. See

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2754357

[mod mom]

10. This is the reason I refrain from saying I am a straight party Dem. I can not vote

for those who wish to subvert the will of the people. I see many DLCers as such.

[Eugene]

11. Chavez is right about Negroponte.

The new AP headline is: Chavez Calls Envoy 'Professional Killer'

K & R

[sweetheart]

12. Well, he is

The bush people belong on a hangman's noose, negroponte and reich amongst them.
They were re-hired, as criminals need criminals who are loyal to criminals.
(after a war crimes trial of course)

[JackRiddler]

15. k