Posada Carriles Associate Confesses Was Paid to Destabilise Venezuela

[Mika]

Posada Carriles Associate Confesses Was Paid to Destabilise Venezuela
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5483

Merida, July 8th, 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Francisco Chavez Abarca, who was recently extradited to Cuba, confessed to having been contracted by Luis Posada Carriles to carry out destabilising acts in Venezuela in the lead-up to the September national assembly elections.

Chavez Abarca, on arriving at Caracas international airport last Thursday, was transported to the SEBIN (Bolivarian Intelligence Service) headquarters for questioning.

Footage obtained by Telesur shows Chavez Abarca’s arrival at the airport then it shows him being led away by airport officials after his passport was discovered to be false and that there was an Interpol code red on him by Cuba.

Telesur footage also shows the suspect responding to questions by SEBIN. When asked who was his superior, Chavez Abarca replied, “Luis Posda Carriles.”

“Where does he give orders from? Where is he?” The officer asked.

“I don’t know because I haven’t talked with him since ’97.”

“How do you receive instructions?”

“Through Daniel.”

Daniel Barrundia, according to Radio Mundial, is connected to the Counter-revolutionary Cuban-American Foundation, located in Miami.

The officer then asked Chavez Abarca how he knew there was contact between Barrundia and Posada, and Chavez Abarca responded, “I know how he talks, I know how he acts, I know how he thinks. I know what he could say and what he wouldn’t.”

Chavez Abarca allegedly came to Venezuela to study what disturbance he could cause in order to sabotage the government’s chances in September’s parliamentary elections. In response to a question about what sort of actions he was planning, he said, “Riots. Riots... tire burning... riots in the street...the other thing that could be done is attack one political party... so the (pro-Chavez) parties start fighting.”

According to the SEBIN, Chavez Abarca received his instructions via email, which suggested meeting three people, two of them Venezuelans, in a restaurant near the airport.

Finally, Chavez Abarca said his fee for the work was up to him.

Venezuelan legislator Juan Mendoza and other Venezuelan authorities have publically accused Chavez Abarca of wanting to commit a “wave of terrorist attempts” in Venezuela and he also criticised the lack of coverage of the issue by the private Venezuelan press, saying it was suspicious.

However, the private media have given a lot of coverage to comments by Chavez Abarca’s wife, Karla Trigueros, who accused Cuba and Venezuelan intelligence agencies of forcefully bringing her husband to Venezuela from Guatemala as part of a “secret operation”.

Venezuela deported Chavez Abarca to Cuba yesterday, but said they would continue investigating the case, to discover who he had been planning on working with.

Retired Cuban general, Fabian Escalante, said the Venezuelan government’s decision to extradite Chavez Abarca was positive and elaborated, “This is a character who has been trained by the best schools of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and by the Bin Laden of the Western Hemisphere, Luis Posada Carriles, who is guilty of the attacks against Cuban tourist installations in 1997.”

Escalante said that Chavez Abarca would be subject to a “fair and transparent” trial in Cuba.

After Chavez Abarca was deported, minister for the interior and justice affairs, Tarek El Aissami, told the media that Venezuela maintains a serious struggle against terrorism. “It’s a commitment ...to peace, to ...the real struggle against criminal organisations dedicated to killing, to creating panic among our peoples,” said El Aissami.

According to Mendoza, Chavez Abarca, a Salvadoran citizen, was the “head of organised crime in El Salvador”. In the 1990s he was allegedly involved in drug trafficking, arms sales, and counterfeiting. In April 1997 he was accused of setting bombs off in a hotel in Havana, on two separate occasions. He also apparently set off a bomb in Mexico that year and contracted a mercenary, Ernesto Cruz Leon, to carry out terrorist missions in Cuba. Cruz Leon later confessed to setting off bombs in hotels in Cuba, which resulted in the death of one Italian.

Posada Carriles is a nationalized Venezuelan who is wanted for his responsibility for the attack on a Cuban plane in 1976 that left 73 passengers dead. He is currently in Miami where he is being protected by the U.S government, which, going against international law, refuses to extradite him.

A key opposition strategy in recent years before elections has been to cause violent riots, as well as scarcity of certain food items, combined with media campaigns to create a sense of dissatisfaction and insecurity among the Venezuelan population.

Also on Tuesday, president Hugo Chavez announced that alleged drug trafficker Carlos Renteria, who is wanted in Colombia, had been captured by Venezuelan authorities the day before. Renteria is also wanted in the United States for conspiring to import, possess, and distribute cocaine, El Correo Del Orinoco reported.

According to El Espectador, the US state department is offering 5 million for his capture, and on Tuesday Chavez announced that Renteria will be extradited to the U.S.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Sounds like Venezuelan intelligence and police agencies are doing their jobs very well, indeed.

I would imagine that the new spirit of cooperation among Latin American countries, led by the new leftist leaders of the region, may be helping as well to apprehend real criminals and to disable both criminal networks and CIA psyops/destabilization plots (as well as establishing the connections between them).

So, now we know what U.S. protection of Luis Posada Carilles is all about, on the current scene. It is not just to cover up the CIA connection to the Cubana airliner bombing and other horrors; it is a CURRENT operation, with Posada Carilles calling the shots from Miami.

If we can believe Abarca. He would likely want to please his Venezuelan and Cuban captors, so we need to take that into consideration in evaluating this report. But it certainly does fit with other information--with the long bloody history of U.S. interference in Latin America, with current CIA/corpo-fascist 'news' monopoly psyops/disinformation about the Chavez government and other leftist governments in Latin America, with the U.S. supported rightwing coup in Honduras, with the U.S. military occupation of Colombia (adjacent to Venezuela--the new U.S./Colombia military agreement giving the U.S. military use of SEVEN military bases in Colombia and ALL civilian infrastructure and granting "total diplomatic immunity" to U.S. military personnel and U.S. military 'contractors,' no matter what they do in Colombia), and other such salient facts.

The Pentagon seems to be planning a war in South America, and the covert part of it seems well under way--although Venezuela has captured some pieces in this chess game and has seriously blocked some U.S. moves.

[Mika]

2. Yes. Keep in mind that some of "the 75" Cubans were convicted of taking money from Posada.

More that disgusting is that the money from Posada/Alvarez was funneled through the US Interests Section in Havana - using diplomatic protections to bring in the blood soaked money.

I personally believe that the US gov (and Miami's anti Castro industry) uses these dissidents as stooges - sloppy ops (like the Ven. bust) designed to fail and end up in their being convicted for obvious (in Cuba) and provable collusion with the violent terrorist enemies of Cuba. This type of op implements the well controlled corporate media in order to depict these Cuban cretins as "dissidents" and "independent" journalists jailed for political opinions.

There's no shooting and B-52 bomb strike war intended for Cuba. There's more money for the operative contracting in sustaining the lower level ops.

:hi:

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[Peace Patriot]

5. "...using diplomatic protections to bring in the blood soaked money."

That reminds me of the "Guido"/"suitcase full of money" caper out of Miami. So this mafioso takes a suitcase packed with bricks of U.S. dollars ($700,000) through customs in Argentina, and of course gets caught, escapes back to Miami and becomes the Bushbot U.S. attorney's squeal--squealing about how the money was intended from Chavez to Cristina Fernandez (leftist running for president of Argentina). The funny part was that--as pointed out by Venezuela's vice president at the time--if they had wanted to give cash to Fernandez (he said) they would have put in on Chavez's presidential jet with diplomatic immunity the next day. (Chavez visited Argentina the next day.) No, "Guido" and his pals in Langley went to all this trouble to GET CAUGHT--so they could fill the black holes in the Miami Hairball with tripe about Chavez/Fernadenez's "corruption" for months.

Interesting that I hadn't thought of psychological "projection" in that case, though it's often true of U.S. and other corpo-fascist plots, that, whatever they are cooking up, by way of psyops, to accuse others of crime or slime or whatever, THEY THEMSELVES ARE DOING. Does Saddam Hussein have WMDs? No. But who DOES have its war machine poised over Iraq, ready to slaughter one hundred thousand innocent Iraqis in the first weeks of bombing alone? Is Cuba torturing prisoners? No. But who DOES have a notorious torture dungeon on the other end of the island of Cuba? Is Chavez a "dictator"? No. But who DOES use its military and economic clout to bully, threaten, terrorize, rob and kill others?

The same with this. Was Chavez sending money to Fernandez, through "Guido" in Miami?

:rofl:

No. But who WAS sending money in "diplomatic pouches" to rightwing criminal plotters in Cuba--and, no doubt at all, in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other decent countries?

I should have known. The secondary purpose of the "suitcase full of money" farce may well have been "cover" for these other operations, should they ever come out (i.e., 'everybody's doing it')--an interesting twist on psychological projection (using it as part of the plot).

You could always tell what the Bushwhacks were doing by what they accused others of doing. And you could pretty much figure out what was true by reversing whatever they said. And I think those rules may apply to the U.S. government no matter who seems to be in charge of it.

[Judi Lynn]

6. The shadow government seems to run things ultimately no matter who's in the White House.

There are a few cases, however, of Democratic Presidents putting a real twist in their plans, like John F. Kennedy conducting a series of secret meetings between his advisors and high-ranking Cuban officials like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, etc. with intentions of creating a new relationship, "bringing Cuba into a closer orbit" not long before he was murdered, and Jimmy Carter cutting support to Guatemala when he finally started getting the real picture of what was happening there. Of course the moment Reagan got into office he IMMEDIATELY restored all funding and revved it up enormously, and people started getting killed faster, and in greater numbers.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Really good news on the capture of both these critters. Looking forward to hearing how Chavez Abarca

fares during the next few months in Cuba.

I hope Cuba will allow more time for questioning by Venezuela while he's hanging around with time on hios hands.

That man's wife has to be crazy to think anyone would buy her silly tale about his being kidnapped. Why should they have kidnapped him and risked an illegal arrest when they could just pick him up legally? What a maroon, er, a, moran.

[Mika]

4. Stagecraft, Judi. Stagecraft.

Go back and reread Peace Patriot's post on how suspicious and sloppy this all looks. Several salient points there.

I bet that soon we'll be hearing the mewling of the "human rights observers" in Cuba about how he's being tortured in Cuban gulags. Remember, RWers always project (Gitmo!).

Stagecraft for our librul media.


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[Judi Lynn]

7. Francisco Chávez Abarca: a very big fish

Francisco Chávez Abarca: a very big fish
July 3, 2010

Terrorist’s Capture a Warning of Possible Conspiracy Against Venezuelan Government

Translation: Machetera for Tlaxcala

teleSUR (Caracas) – Venezuela’s lawyer in the Posada Carriles case, José Pertierra, warned that the terrorist recently arrested near the International Maiquetía airport (in the northern state of Vargas), Francisco Chávez Abarca, “is not the person who detonated or placed the bomb,” but the person who recruited killers to carry out the action. He urged authorities to investigate “who was going to meet with this individual” during his time in Caracas.

Venezuela’s attorney in the extradition case of Luis Posada Carriles, José Pertierra, warned that the presence in this Latin American country of the terrorist Francisco Chávez Abarca, who was arrested this Thursday, could respond to a planned conspiracy against the government of President Hugo Chávez and even an attempt on his life.

“I’m sure that (Chávez Abarca) didn’t come to Venezuela to get some sun on Isla de Margarita. It’s very probable that he had a hidden, terrorist plan,” Pertierra warned in an exclusive interview with teleSUR.

“He didn’t go to Venezuela to eat cachapa (a kind of corn tortilla); he went to Venezuela with a terrorist plan of some kind,” insisted the legal professional, later adding that “anything’s possible, including an attempt on the life of President Chávez himself.”

In an exclusive interview with teleSUR, José Pertierra explained that “Chávez Abarca is the person in charge of human resources for Luis Posada Carriles’ terrorist campaign.” Posada Carriles is accused of being the intellectual author of the attack against a Cuban airliner that caused the death of 73 people in 1976.

He assured that the detainee had many links with death squads in El Salvador, for which one must ask, “What is a person who’s on the Interpol Most Wanted list, who has an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Cuba, what is he doing daring to enter Venezuela” with a false passport?

The attorney mentioned that Chávez Abarca was responsible for recruiting terrorists in El Salvador and in Guatemala, in order to place bombs in Havana.

He cited the case of René Cruz León, who placed four bombs in Havana “one of which killed an Italian tourist (in 1997),” named Fabio di Celmo. Later, Cruz León, a Salvadoran national, identified Chávez Abarca as the person who recruited him on Posada Carriles’ orders.

More:
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/francisco-chavez-abarca-a-very-big-fish/

[Judi Lynn]

8. Venezuela: Terrorist admits sabotage plan

Venezuela: Terrorist admits sabotage plan
Sunday, July 18, 2010
By Tamara Pearson, Merida

Francisco Chavez Abarca, who was recently extradited to Cuba, has admitted being contracted by Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to carry out destabilising acts in Venezuela in the lead-up to the September National Assembly elections.

Posada Carriles is a former CIA agent wanted for his role in a 1976 attack on a Cuban plane that left 73 passengers dead. He lives in Miami. The US government, going against international law, has refused Venezuelan and Cuban requests to extradite him.

Chavez Abarca was arrested when arrived at Caracas international airport on July 8 after it was discovered an Interpol arrest warrant out for him.

Footage of Chavez Abarca being interviewed by Venezuela’s Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEDIN) was obtained by the regional Telesur TV network. The footage showed Chavez Abarca admitting his superior was Posada Carriles.

Chavez Abarca allegedly came to Venezuela to help plan actions to sabotage the left-wing government of President Hugo Chavez in the September poll.

Asked what sort of actions, Chavez Abarca said: “Riots in the streets ... tyre burning ... the other thing that could be done is attack one political party ... so the parties start fighting.”

A key strategy of the US-backed right-wing opposition in recent years before elections has been to cause violent riots, as well as help manufacture a scarcity of certain food items.

More:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/44808