New Oil Crisis between Venezuela and U.S. ?

posted by ewing2001 on Saturday September 20, @03:47PM

Venezuelan supplies of crude oil to USA may be in jeopardy after corruption-convicted former President flees Dominican Republic bolt hole for safe haven in New York

Update: Claim, CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane

Vheadline Venezuela - September 19, 2003

Fugitive ex-President Carlos Andres Perez (CAP has fled his Dominican Republic bolt-hole to New York in a move that could adventure Venezuelan supplies of crude oil to the United States).

The corruption-convicted ex-President's escape to the Big Apple came after Venezuela's Energy & Mines (MEM) Minister Rafael Ramirez ordered a halt preferential oil supplies to the Dominican Republic after the Caribbean island refused to extradite CAP on a series of criminal conspiracy charges and planning to overthrow the legitimate government of Venezuela by violent and extra-Constitutional means.

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Perez says he has flown from the Dominican Republic to avoid "diplomatic inconveniences" for the government of his good friend President Hipolito Mejia. Relations between Venezuela and the Dominican Republic have been more than simply strained since it was revealed that Perez had been using the island as a base for his continuing efforts to overthrow the Caracas government. He says he has had residence in New York for the last three months but denies coup plotting other than that he has met secretly with fellow-fugitive Carlos Ortega who was granted political asylum in Costa Rica after he went into hiding in Caracas to avoid arrest on sedition and civilian rebellion charges.

Energy Minister Ramirez says, with direct reference to Carlos Andres Perez in the Dominican Republic, that Venezuela will not now allow its crude oil to be sold to countries that support terrorism ... the definition of "terrorism" being against the legitimate government of Venezuela.

Now that CAP has escaped to his luxury apartments in Manhattan, the logical question is being asked what follow-up action is intended this weekend if the White House refuses to deal with the former President of Venezuela under mutual anti-terrorism agreements. Some diplomats are speaking quietly about a probable imposition of an immediate oil embargo against the United States ... which could seriously interrupt supplies ... but official sources in Caracas have not been able to qualify the possibility and the Venezuelan Embassy in Georgetown, Washington D.C. has been closed after extensive flooding in the wake of Friday's hurricane alert.

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vheadline.com -September 20, 2003

Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence the CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to United Nations in New York

Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence the CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to United Nations in New York

Details behind the sudden decision to cancel President Hugo Chavez Frias' next-week trip to Washington D.C. and New York (to deliver a speech to the United Nations) are being revealed by security services who say they have "overwhelming evidence" of a CIA-backed plan to "bring down" the Chavez Frias' airplane during the scheduled flight to the United States from Caracas. Sources in Venezuela's Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM) have told VHeadline.com that "presented with overwhelming evidence of Washington's planned attack on the Presidential flight, it was decided that the President's personal security was preeminent and that he should not go!"

State Security & Political (DISIP) police agents were involved in a gun battle in Plaza Altamira Friday night as they moved to detain a suspect now named as Jorge Rojas Riera, for the Friday morning bombing at the Casa Militar barracks, across Avenida Urdaneta from the Miraflores Presidential Palace. It is reported that President Hugo Chavez Frias was working at his desk when the 1:00 a.m. blast went off but that his life had never been put in danger as many gleeful wire-service reporters had immediately cabled to their North American publishers...

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