venezuela convito di una imminente invasione USA

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mentre stanno affogando nella vergogna pensano ad invadere altri paesi
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Australian Associated Press
September 4, 2005


VENEZUELA CONVINCED OF US INVASION


- -"We discovered through intelligence work a military
exercise that NATO has of an invasion against
Venezuela, and we are preparing ourselves for that
invasion," Chavez was quoted as saying.
He said the military exercise is known as Plan Balboa
and includes rehearsing simultaneous assaults by air,
sea and land at a military base in Spain, involving
troops from the US and NATO countries. 


Venezuela has uncovered plans for a US-led invasion
and is preparing to defend the country against
invading forces if necessary, President Hugo Chavez
said in a report carried by the state-run news agency.

The Bolivarian News Agency reported that Chavez made
the comments during an interview with CNN. It was
unclear when the interview was to be aired.

"If it occurs to the United States to invade our
country - Fidel Castro said it and I agree - a war
will start here to last 100 years," Chavez was quoted
as saying. "Not only this country would be burned up,
but a good part of this continent; they shouldn't make
any mistake about it, we are preparing to repel an
invasion."
....
"We discovered through intelligence work a military
exercise that NATO has of an invasion against
Venezuela, and we are preparing ourselves for that
invasion," Chavez was quoted as saying.

He said the military exercise is known as Plan Balboa
and includes rehearsing simultaneous assaults by air,
sea and land at a military base in Spain, involving
troops from the US and NATO countries. US officials in
the past have said such training is meant to prepare
troops for general scenarios but not for a specify
military action.

The state news agency, commonly known as ABN for its
initials in Spanish, said according to Chavez the
invasion plan focuses on western Venezuela and also
includes a wave of bombings over Caracas and the
cities of Maracay and Valencia.

"It's known they have everything planned out to
capture the oilfields of the west and the east, the
south," Chavez was quoted as saying.

Chavez repeated his threat that if the government of
US President George W Bush were to attempt an attack,
his government would immediately cut off oil shipments
to the US. For this reason, it's important there is an
effort to improve relations, Chavez said, according to
ABN.

"It isn't us who should take the first step; the
aggressor is the one that should show it is capable of
sending some signal," Chavez was quoted as saying.

"The signal we have sent is enough: express our
willingness to recover diplomatic, political
relations, at least to the normal level that existed
not long ago with the government of president Bill
Clinton."

Tensions have grown in recent months between Chavez,
who has emerged as a leading voice of the Latin
American left, and a US government that has expressed
concern about his close ties to Castro and what
Chavez's opponents call an authoritarian streak.

The former army paratroop commander accuses the US
government of backing a shortlived coup against him in
2002, another claim that US officials have repeatedly
denied. Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, is up
for reelection next year, and polls suggest he is
strongly favoured to win.