Next Target : The "Axis of Evil" Brazil-Venezuela-Cuba
FrontPageMagazine.com [28/04/2003] citing the
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism [02/03]
The Gathering Storm: The Brazil-Venezuela-Cuba Axis
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The current governments of Brazil (da Silva), Cuba (Castro), and Venezuela (Chavez) are each home to the sort
of anti-American fervor that forms the foundation for most terrorist safehavens. Even more worrisome, they
stand poised to remake South America in their image through a well-organized strategy that brings to power -
via legitimate means (i.e. elections) - other leftist leaders whose political agendas and support for terrorist
organizations will undermine U.S. interests and the overall security of the Western Hemisphere. There will be
serious long-term implications if the U.S. does not develop a more efficacious strategic policy to deal with
the growing influence of these communist devotees.
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PEOPLE'S DAILY online edition, Beijing, reported (08/07/2004) :
As was revealed by Argentinian and U.S. journalists, the Bush administration considered, only shortly after the
September 11 incidents, to bomb not only Afghanistan but the common frontier region of Argentine, Paraguay
and Brazil as well, in order to "fill the terrorists with fear". Though, there were no traces of terrorists detected in
that area, that plan was forwarded to President Bush by his Deputy Secretary of State for Defence.
RADIO HABANA CUBA [10/10/2004] cited by a semi-official European source :
The vice-President of Venezuela, Mr. José Vincente Rangel, made known that
his country`s government is demanding an explication from the U.S. for the
existence of terrorist training camps near Miami, expected to prepare actions
against Venezuela.
In his declaration made to the press, José Vincente Rangel referred to a long
report, illustrated with photos and published by the daily "Últimas Noticias".
That report denounced the existence of such camps and the presence there of
counter-revolutionaries from Cuba and Venezuela.
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As the vice-President stressed, there shouldn´t be two different ways of talking
when it comes to fight terrorism. .....
THE MIAMI HERALD [12/10/04] citing WALLSTREET JOURNAL [03/02/04] :
As Cuba's oil debt to Venezuela tops $752 million, President Hugo Chávez,
a confidant of Fidel Castro's, becomes Cuba's biggest financial supporter.
[BLUEPRINT info : In exchange to the delivery of crude oil, Cuba is support-
ing a program of medical aid and an alphabetization campaign in Venezuela.]
ÚLTIMAS NOTICIAS, Caracas [10/01/2004] :
Nadie nos dice quienes son nuestros amigos
Nobody should tell us what friends we should have
President Hugo Chávez urged the U.S. government not to mingle with internal
affairs of Venezuela.
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As to the manifestation of opinion, voiced from inside the U.S. government
and regarding both, the friendship between our Head of State and Fidel Castro
as well as accusations of a joined destabilization of the area, Chávez said :
"You should know that it is us who decide what friends we have or have not."