Magnicide?

Bush mafia would like to murder Chavez; their savagery know no limits

VHeadline guest commentator Clifton Ross writes: I'm afraid most of my reflections at this point will be made by a novice in the Bolivarian process, but here they are for what they're worth. For the most part I'm not even competent to do more than reflect at this point, that is, mirror what I'm seeing, echo what I'm hearing.

Hopefully I'll be more informed in time and have the capacity to actually analyze what I'm seeing and hearing and experiencing.

Yesterday I had a rather disturbing meeting with our Bolivarian Translator's Circle. It wasn't the company, but the alarm of possible magnicide, coup d'etats, and the destruction of this beautiful process was profoundly disconcerting in our “concert” of exchange.

The rumors are swirling around and some of you may have heard some of them ... in addition to the uncovering of an assassination plot against Chavez, two bombs went off in Caracas and mysterious planes have been rumored to have landed in the country.

So, it appears, the US is intent on bringing “Amerkkkan style democracy” to Venezuela which is newspeak for dictatorship, genocide and death squad culture.

* No one here is surprised by that, but the anxiety is growing as the US kicks more money and support for the “escualidos.”

After the meeting with the BTC, I went looking for Simon Arado, my new friend the gregarious poet-electrician. I found him, as expected, in front of the Tulio Cordero Cultural Center ... the gathering place for all the local artists and intellectuals. He'd been trying to call me all day because we'd planned for him to do some electrical work in my studio but my phone was being repaired. As we walked up the street for a coffee and parts to begin the project, I talked about my alarm over the rumors.

Simon warned me that if they managed to kill Chavez, that I should stick with the people I know, because it will be very dangerous to be in the streets.

* There will be a civil war and the 80% will go after the “escualidos” and destroy them, their stores, everything.
* There would also be a counter move, and such brutality that there will be thousands dead.

“Those who want to kill Chavez ... the North American government ... they don't care about any of this ... they just want the oil ... they don't care how many thousands die.” He went on to predict a few days of mass rage in the event of an attempt or an assassination. He'd seen this during the Caracazo in 1989 when there was an intense riot put down by the army in a slaughter of civilians.

This would be especially dangerous for North Americans like me, identified as we are with our government.

“People around here already are getting to know you. But you should take care. You know,” he said, “Stick with Jose Sant Roz, Matute and the others because people will know who you are by the company you keep and you'll be protected.”

Then he went on to talk about the coup and the two days of repression that happened from April 11-13 2002 when Chavez was taken prisoner for two days and Carmona took over.

“I shaved off my mustache and threw all my papers away ... I gathered everything together and said goodbye to my children and was prepared to go off into the mountains to begin fighting there with all the other patriots ... and then Chavez came back ... but in those two days we saw the naked face of the “escualidos” and suffered incredible persecution from them before Chavez returned."

"That was when the thirty percent of the undecided came over to our side because they saw how fascist the opposition actually is.”

We were walking up the hill and the fog was rolling down the mountainside, slipping over Pico Bolivar like a hand that became a river of cloud in the early evening, almost luminescent in the dying sun.

Then Simon reassured me: “You know, Chavez is an incredible strategist. The yankees (US government) have a strategy of destroying the enemy ... you know, 'kill them all, liquidate them, destroy them,' sort of like what they did in Fallujah.