Venezuelan Government Releases “Evidence” that Opposition is Planning to not Recognise Election Resu

[Peter Lemkin]

US refuses to accept Venezuela election result


Posted: Apr 17, 2013 4:09 AMUpdated: Apr 17, 2013 4:09 AM

By MATTHEW LEE
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is refusing to accept the official results of Venezuela's weekend presidential election, which gave victory to the protege of the country's late leftist leader Hugo Chavez.
The State Department said Tuesday that a full recount of the vote and an investigation into alleged irregularities were needed, given the close tally that almost evenly divided the country. On Monday, the U.S. had called for a full recount before results were certified but the election commission went ahead with certification without one.
The State Department said it was "difficult to understand" why the commission certified ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro as the winner in the absence of a recount, which challenger Henrique Capriles is demanding.
It also condemned post-election violence that has killed at least seven people.
http://www.wistv.com/story/21993116/us-r...ion-result

Someone [on the MSM, mind you] made the interesting observation that not only have Carter and others praised the Venezualian voting system as perhaps the best in the World [and hardest to cheat /fudge the results in], but that the slim margin between the two candidates is nothing compared to that between Bush and Gore! The USG didn't fail to honor that 'thrown' election...... U.S. seems to have a plan here - as was explained in the Wikileak document.

[Magda Hassan]

They are already murdering people in the country side. 3 People at last count. They have also blown up a health clinic and attacked some of the houses of Chavistas with election posters displayed.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Obama proud to follow and revive the criminal imperial arrogance of the United Fruit Company.

The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whose real name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was politically involved in many ways throughout his life in the fight for social justice and equality. While living underground and in Argentina after he had openly and repeatedly criticized the Chilean government and its violent repression of a miner's strike, he wrote his defining, extensive, and acclaimed work, Canto General. I recently came across the mention of the poem below, "United Fruit Co.", which is part of the Canto General while reading the biography of Ernesto "Che" Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson. Neruda wrote this poem in 1950 to bring attention to injustices brought upon the native populations of Central and South America that were a result of American companies (and the U.S. government with the help of the CIA) and dictators throughout the region who exploited their labor and forcefully suppressed democratic movements.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

United Fruit Co.

When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other corporations.
The United Fruit Company
reserved for itself the most juicy
piece, the central coast of my world,
the delicate waist of America.

It rebaptized these countries
Banana Republics,
and over the sleeping dead,
over the unquiet heroes
who won greatness,
liberty, and banners,
it established an opera buffa:
it abolished free will,
gave out imperial crowns,
encouraged envy, attracted
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Tachos flies
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies sticky with
submissive blood and marmalade,
drunken flies that buzz over
the tombs of the people,
circus flies, wise flies
expert at tyranny.

With the bloodthirsty flies
came the Fruit Company,
amassed coffee and fruit
in ships which put to sea like
overloaded trays with the treasures
from our sunken lands.

Meanwhile the Indians fall
into the sugared depths of the
harbors and are buried in the
morning mists;
a corpse rolls, a thing without
name, a discarded number,
a bunch of rotten fruit
thrown on the garbage heap.

AS WRITTEN IN SPANISH

La United Fruit Co.

Cuando sonó la trompeta, estuvo
todo preparado en la tierra,
y Jehova repartió el mundo
a Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, y otras entidades:
la Compañía Frutera Inc.
se reservó lo más jugoso,
la costa central de mi tierra,
la dulce cintura de América.

Bautizó de nuevo sus tierras
como "Repúblicas Bananas,"
y sobre los muertos dormidos,
sobre los héroes inquietos
que conquistaron la grandeza,
la libertad y las banderas,
estableció la ópera bufa:
enajenó los albedríos
regaló coronas de César,
desenvainó la envidia, atrajo
la dictadora de las moscas,
moscas Trujillos, moscas Tachos,
moscas Carías, moscas Martínez,
moscas Ubico, moscas húmedas
de sangre humilde y mermelada,
moscas borrachas que zumban
sobre las tumbas populares,
moscas de circo, sabias moscas
entendidas en tiranía.

Entre las moscas sanguinarias
la Frutera desembarca,
arrasando el café y las frutas,
en sus barcos que deslizaron
como bandejas el tesoro
de nuestras tierras sumergidas.

Mientras tanto, por los abismos
azucarados de los puertos,
caían indios sepultados
en el vapor de la mañana:
un cuerpo rueda, una cosa
sin nombre, un número caído,
un racimo de fruta muerta
derramada en el pudridero.

[Keith Millea]

Published on Thursday, April 18, 2013 by Democracy Now!

Maduro Blasts Kerry for Rejecting Venezuelan Election Win



Photo: Prensa Miraflores

The Obama administration continues to stoke tensions with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro following Maduro's narrow election victory. On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said he does not know if the United States will recognize Maduro's defeat of opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski and renewed his call for a recount. Venezuela's electoral council has rejected a recount, saying it is impossible the result was flawed. At a meeting with state governors, Maduro rejected Kerry's comments.


Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro: "Who are you to talk about Venezuela with the many problems the United States has, economic, social and political problems that are overwhelming the people of the United States? Take your eyes off Venezuela, stop with the scripted intervention. Close your eyes when listening to a U.S. government official and you're listening to any of these bourgeoisie leaders. They (U.S.) will not recognize (the election result). We don't care about recognition, we decided freely and we will be free and independent, with or without you. We don't care about your opinion."


Henrique Capriles formally submitted his recount request on Wednesday. He was quoted as saying in the weeks before the vote that Maduro shouldn't remain in office even in victory. Capriles said:

"Whatever the outcome, I don't see how Nicolás Maduro has the capacity to stay for an extended time in government. He will have to resign, abandon (the presidency) if he's able to win."

[Magda Hassan]

Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro tells John Kerry to get out of here'

By
The Washington Times
Thursday, April 18, 2013

U.S.-Venezuelan relations took a turn for the worse Thursday, as Secretary of State John F. Kerry called for a recount in the presidential election that Nicolas Maduro just narrowly won and the president-elect responded that Mr. Kerry should just mind his own business.
"It's obscene, the U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela," Mr. Marduro said, as United Press International reported. "Take your eyes off Venezuela, John Kerry. Get out of here. Enough interventionism."
Mr. Kerry called for a recount during remarks to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill and also hinted that the U.S. might not recognize Mr. Maduro as the rightful leader.
"We think there ought to be a recount," he said in the UPI report. "I don't know whether it's going to happen. … [But] obviously, if there are huge irregularities, we are going to have serious questions about the viability of that government."
Mr. Maduro's response was blunt.
"We don't care about your recognition," he said, as UPI reported. "We have decided to be free and we will be free and independent, with or without you."
On Monday, Mr. Maduro the late President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor was declared winner of the special election, with 50.8 percent of the vote, UPI said. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles won 49 percent, only 262,000 votes behind.
The president of the country's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, affirmed Mr. Maduro as the winner on Wednesday.


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013...z2QrVV79ZC

[Magda Hassan]

And for those of a more bookish nature I recommend The Open Veins of LatinAmerica by Eduardo Galeano. http://www.bookdepository.com/Open-Veins...ription-20

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende's inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

Obama proud to follow and revive the criminal imperial arrogance of the United Fruit Company.

The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whose real name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was politically involved in many ways throughout his life in the fight for social justice and equality. While living underground and in Argentina after he had openly and repeatedly criticized the Chilean government and its violent repression of a miner's strike, he wrote his defining, extensive, and acclaimed work, Canto General. I recently came across the mention of the poem below, "United Fruit Co.", which is part of the Canto General while reading the biography of Ernesto "Che" Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson. Neruda wrote this poem in 1950 to bring attention to injustices brought upon the native populations of Central and South America that were a result of American companies (and the U.S. government with the help of the CIA) and dictators throughout the region who exploited their labor and forcefully suppressed democratic movements.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

United Fruit Co.

When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other corporations.
The United Fruit Company
reserved for itself the most juicy
piece, the central coast of my world,
the delicate waist of America.

It rebaptized these countries
Banana Republics,
and over the sleeping dead,
over the unquiet heroes
who won greatness,
liberty, and banners,
it established an opera buffa:
it abolished free will,
gave out imperial crowns,
encouraged envy, attracted
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Tachos flies
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies sticky with
submissive blood and marmalade,
drunken flies that buzz over
the tombs of the people,
circus flies, wise flies
expert at tyranny.

With the bloodthirsty flies
came the Fruit Company,
amassed coffee and fruit
in ships which put to sea like
overloaded trays with the treasures
from our sunken lands.

Meanwhile the Indians fall
into the sugared depths of the
harbors and are buried in the
morning mists;
a corpse rolls, a thing without
name, a discarded number,
a bunch of rotten fruit
thrown on the garbage heap.

AS WRITTEN IN SPANISH

La United Fruit Co.

Cuando sonó la trompeta, estuvo
todo preparado en la tierra,
y Jehova repartió el mundo
a Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, y otras entidades:
la Compañía Frutera Inc.
se reservó lo más jugoso,
la costa central de mi tierra,
la dulce cintura de América.

Bautizó de nuevo sus tierras
como "Repúblicas Bananas,"
y sobre los muertos dormidos,
sobre los héroes inquietos
que conquistaron la grandeza,
la libertad y las banderas,
estableció la ópera bufa:
enajenó los albedríos
regaló coronas de César,
desenvainó la envidia, atrajo
la dictadora de las moscas,
moscas Trujillos, moscas Tachos,
moscas Carías, moscas Martínez,
moscas Ubico, moscas húmedas
de sangre humilde y mermelada,
moscas borrachas que zumban
sobre las tumbas populares,
moscas de circo, sabias moscas
entendidas en tiranía.

Entre las moscas sanguinarias
la Frutera desembarca,
arrasando el café y las frutas,
en sus barcos que deslizaron
como bandejas el tesoro
de nuestras tierras sumergidas.

Mientras tanto, por los abismos
azucarados de los puertos,
caían indios sepultados
en el vapor de la mañana:
un cuerpo rueda, una cosa
sin nombre, un número caído,
un racimo de fruta muerta
derramada en el pudridero.

[David Guyatt]

Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro tells John Kerry to get out of here'




By
The Washington Times
Thursday, April 18, 2013

U.S.-Venezuelan relations took a turn for the worse Thursday, as Secretary of State John F. Kerry called for a recount in the presidential election that Nicolas Maduro just narrowly won and the president-elect responded that Mr. Kerry should just mind his own business.
"It's obscene, the U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela," Mr. Marduro said, as United Press International reported. "Take your eyes off Venezuela, John Kerry. Get out of here. Enough interventionism."
Mr. Kerry called for a recount during remarks to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill and also hinted that the U.S. might not recognize Mr. Maduro as the rightful leader.
"We think there ought to be a recount," he said in the UPI report. "I don't know whether it's going to happen. … [But] obviously, if there are huge irregularities, we are going to have serious questions about the viability of that government."
Mr. Maduro's response was blunt.
"We don't care about your recognition," he said, as UPI reported. "We have decided to be free and we will be free and independent, with or without you."
On Monday, Mr. Maduro the late President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor was declared winner of the special election, with 50.8 percent of the vote, UPI said. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles won 49 percent, only 262,000 votes behind.
The president of the country's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, affirmed Mr. Maduro as the winner on Wednesday.


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013...z2QrVV79ZC

A few more sovereigns with that attitude would be a power of good to the world.

[Magda Hassan]

Fistfights have broken out in Venezuela's parliament over the recent disputed presidential election.
Several legislators were left bloodied and bruised, with both opposition and pro-government lawmakers accusing each other of starting the fight.
A measure was earlier passed denying MPs the right to speak until they recognised Nicolas Maduro as president.
Official results show he narrowly beat opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who has demanded a full recount.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) - which has rejected Mr Capriles' demand - on Monday said Mr Maduro had won by 1.49 percentage points, or fewer than 225,000 votes.
This came after the council had amended the final result, taking into account votes cast abroad.
In all, 99.79% of the votes have now been counted.
Earlier figures had shown a victory of 1.8 percentage points for Mr Maduro, who stood in the poll as the chosen successor of the late President Hugo Chavez.
'Being silenced' Julio Borges appeared on TV with facial bruises after the clashes
On Tuesday, the opposition said a number of its lawmakers were attacked and hurt in the parliament - the National Assembly.
One of the MPs, Julio Borges, later appeared on a local TV station with facial bruises.
"They can beat us, jail us, kill us, but we will not sell out our principles," Mr Borges was quoted as saying.
"These blows give us more strength."
The opposition said it was being "silenced" by National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello.
"I am going to ask you: Mr Deputy, do you recognise Nicolas Maduro?" Mr Cabello asked one of them. "If you say no, you don't get to speak in the assembly."
Pro-government representatives blamed the opposition for starting the clashes.
"Today again I had to defend [Hugo Chavez's] legacy," lawmaker Odalis Monzon was quoted as saying by Reuters.

If you don't recognise Maduro, you're not going to speak in the assembly"

Diosdado Cabello National Assembly President
She added that she and several of her colleagues were attacked and beaten during the fighting.
'Stolen presidency' The CNE declared President Maduro the winner on 15 April, after he had gained what it called an "irreversible majority". He was sworn in on 19 April.
Mr Capriles has demanded a vote-by-vote recount, but the CNE said it would be legally impossible to carry out.
It has, however, agreed to carry out a partial audit, which is expected to take until June. During the audit, 56% of the votes cast will be examined.
The CNE says the remaining 44% had been checked immediately after the election.
On Monday, Mr Capriles said Mr Maduro had "illegitimately stolen the presidency",
He has until 6 May to lodge his request with the Supreme Court contesting the election result.
Mr Capriles said he had "no doubt that this will end up before an international body".
Both Mr Capriles and Mr Maduro have urged their supporters to turn out for separate demonstrations on 1 May, sparking fears the two camps could clash.
Mr Maduro on Monday said he had changed the route of his march because he "did not want problems".
But the opposition says it continues to be targeted by the government, citing the arrest on Saturday of retired Gen Antonio Rivero as proof.
The opposition politician has been charged with criminal instigation and criminal association, after prosecutors blamed him for outbreaks of post-election violence.
Relatives of Gen Rivero says he is on a hunger strike in protest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22362760

[Magda Hassan]

Shhhhhhh!!!!! Don't mention the war!

Jan will note that it was CNN that did this interview....

Capriles called Correa irresponsible

Featured News, Politics, World | Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Source:: EFE
Yesterday at a press conference, the former presidential candidate and leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Henrique Capriles, described the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, as "irresponsible", for saying that he is a "coup maker", and also ensuring that he supported the coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002, during an interview with Ana Pastor for the Frente a Frente program of CNN.
"Statements made by the Ecuadorian President are unacceptable, and irresponsible," said Capriles. "Mr. Correa (…) crossed the line, he has no right to qualify any Venezuelan and he must respect our country," he added.
Also, Capriles insisted that "the coup makers are others" and told Rafael Correa to present evidence, "because if he doesn't, he would be a liar, irresponsible," said the opposition leader, who yesterday warned the Ecuadorian president to "not get involved in the internal issues of Venezuela."

Meanwhile, Maduro defended his Ecuadorian counterpart. "Move forward brother President Correa, soon we will see each other to continue uniting our beautiful South American peoples of Ecuador and Venezuela," said the president.

http://www.ecuadortimes.net/2013/04/30/c...sponsible/