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Chavez Holds a Cross While Visiting a Community Center
in the Bronx, NY on Saturday.
—UNITED NATIONS VIDEO: President Hugo Chavez’ Address at U.N. on Thursday,
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Chavez Talks of U.S. Invasion to Distract Venezuelans
President Hugo Chavez wants to turn Venezuela into a larger version of Cuba, and hopes no one notices while, according to this op-ed article from Venezuela's El Universal, he travels around repeating the ‘outlandish' idea of a U.S. plan to invade his country.
By Adolph R. Taylhardat
September 21, 2005
Original
Article (Spanish) 
Chavez likes charging that the United
States has
a plan to invade Venezuela. This Chavista fantasy achieves several objectives:
to present Venezuela as the likely victim of imperialist aggression;
to impress upon international public opinion an image of Venezuela as
the David that challenges Goliath and, this is most important, to
distract the attention of the Venezuelan people from the continuing advance
of "the next stage" of his "process" to implant in
Venezuela a regime that resembles Cuba.
Hugo Chavez Look Like a Candidate As He Visits The Point Community Center in the South Bronx Last Weekend.
During his recent visit to New
York, full of rudeness and unnecessarily aggressive
toward the government of that country. In an interview on the program "Nightline" of
the televising channel ABC, Chavez reiterated that there is a North American
plan called "Balboa" to invade Venezuela. "I tell you that I have proof that plans exist
for an invasion of Venezuela" he declared, and added: "What's more,
we have documentation." Then he said that he couldn't provide the
documentation because it was secret and confidential.
In fact, the documentation on that plan
is so confidential that any person can obtain it by entering the words, "Operation
Balboa" into Google. There one discovers that this is not some evil
plan of the United States, but a simulated exercise of the Spanish Army that
contemplated an armed intervention in Venezuela in collaboration with the U.S. One must remember that all of the world's armies
use simulated exercises. In the case of this exercise, the supposed culprit
was Colombia.
Amongst the "confidential" documents
that appear on the Internet, one deserves special mention. On the first
page is the shield of Spain's top military school, [ESFAS, or Superior de las Fuerzas Armadas españolas] and it is entitled: "The Exposition
of Operation BALBOA." There we find that in February, 2001, the Combined
Military Headquarters of Spain actually carried out the simulation during
which, by the way, a Venezuelan official participated.
Could it be that Chavez is so naive that
his (Cuban) advisers have persuaded him to believe a fable that is so foolish
and, in addition, to express such serious accusations publicly? Much more
likely is that he thinks we are the naïve ones, and that we will accept
such an outlandish story. In the meantime he stealthily advances "the
next phase."
www.adolfotaylhardat.net