[NYTr] Venezuelan Govt Uncovers Video of Opposition Destabilization Plot
 
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 05:24:11 -0600 (CST)

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Venezuelanalysis - Nov 30, 2007
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2937

Venezuelan Govt Uncovers Video of Opposition Destabilization Plan

by Chris Carlson

Caracas, November 30, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)- Venezuelan
Telecommunications Minister Jesse Chacon presented a video revealing
the opposition strategy of destabilization for Sunday's referendum at a
press conference on Thursday. In the video, opposition leaders call on
their supporters to reject the results of the referendum and to take
part in nation-wide protests to overturn the constitutional reform. Two
opposition leaders are being investigated for inciting violence and
calling on supporters to break the law.

In the video that has been posted on the internet at various web pages,
including YouTube, leaders of the Venezuelan opposition can be seen
speaking to supporters in a church in Caracas, calling on supporters to
create "pockets of protest" all over the country after the national
vote this Sunday.

"It is a more efficient mechanism that generates a political crisis and
a crisis of instability that forces the regime to withdraw the reform,"
says opposition leader Alejandro PeC1a Esclusa in the video. Esclusa
insists that the plan for massive protests must be a group effort all
across the nation, making the government unable to control it.

Alongside Esclusa is opposition mayor Leopoldo Lopez, who also speaks
in the video, making the case that the electoral results cannot be
trusted, but he does not give explicit support for the destabilization
plan.

"The worst part," said Minister ChacC3n, "is that the mayor of Chacao
and leader of Un Nuevo Tiempo [the opposition party A New Era] appears
in the video. We'd like to know if Mr. Leopoldo LC3pez will tell the
nation that he does not believe what Esclusa says, and that if the CNE
says that the reforms are approved, if he will respect the results."

ChacC3n stated that he was not surprised upon seeing Lopez in the video
and assured that he and Exclusa are not democrats, but rather
"fascists." He also accused the bishops of the Catholic Church of
endorsing the destabilization plans of Esclusa and called on the
Venezuelan Catholic hierarchy to reflect on their use of the church to
hold these kinds of meetings, and incite the Venezuelan people to the
use of violence.

"How is it possible that the temple of God be used to incite violence?"
asked ChacC3n. "The pulpit should be used to call for peace, not for
violence."

As a result of the finding, the Venezuelan government launched an
investigation of two opposition leaders, Alejandro PeC1a Esclusa and
Carlos GuyC3n Celis, for publishing various videos online that incite
violence. Government intelligence will investigate the two leaders for
their involvement in calling on sectors of society to not recognize the
results of the national vote on Sunday and to break the law.

Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez denied the accusations of the
Telecommunications Minister Jesse Chacon and assured that he does not
agree with the plans of Esclusa.

"It is not true that I said to not recognize the electoral results, or
to create protests in that meeting," said Lopez. "On the contrary, I
had a different position than PeC1a Esclusa, who didn't want people to
go vote. I have always been working in favor of voting."

Minister ChacC3n called on all Venezuelans to respect the electoral
process on Sunday, and to respect the results, no matter what they are.

"I imagine that the Venezuelan people that vote byes' and bno' are
going to respect the results. Because if not, what they are preparing
is a situation of destabilization and violence on the night of December
2nd, which the government is not going to permit."

"We are not going to permit a situation of destabilization and violence
on December 2nd," assured ChacC3n. "We are going to respect the results
on Sunday, whatever they are."

Link to destabilization plan video (in Spanish):
http://www.aporrea.org/medios/n105515.html

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