The Devil's Excrement

There are two things that dominate this Government: Ignorance and Politics. Ignorance because people who have no clue about a field are appointed to positions to make decisions that require technical knowledge and know how, but the revolution believes that anyone can do anything. Politics because this is the number one priproty of the revolution: Never say something which may go agaisnt the official line, lie until you can and then simply lie again claiming you never said what you said.

This way of running the Government has been quite evident in the way the Government has handled the problem of the viaduct of the Caracas-La Guaira highway. For months and years experts had been telling the Governmnet they were going to have to shut it down. The Government denied this was possible, claiming that the work being done was sufficient to stop the bridge from becoming useless. On December 22nd. the School of Engineers of Venezuela said that the viaduct was in danger of buckling. The Government denied this was the case, Chavez said it was all the media blowing it out of proportions. Then, on January 5th. the Government was forced to shut down the viaduct, essentailly closing one of the most important access roads to the capital of Venezuela.

Even then Government officials said the problem could be solved, they were working on it. In fact this official line has been defended until today, while experts continue to say almost daily that the viaduct could collapse. Only yesterday, the man in charge of the viaduct at the Infrastructure Ministry denied that it could collapse, saying that in fact the mountain pushing the viaduct was moving slower, that they continued working on fixing it and on Tuesday they would hold a meeting to decide on the alternatives to fix it.This was in response to the main headline of pro-Government paper Ultimas Noticias yesterday which said “The Viaduct will collapse”.

Today, the viaduct collapsed.

(Pictures taken from the TV)

As I write the Vice-Minister of Infrsatructure is saying on TV this was all expected, while Chavez sings with Reina Lucero on Alo Presidente while Nero in burning Rome.

Announcement to the people in BOSTON

Venered and Forum Venezuela are cordially inviting you to join

Javier Corrales, /Associate Professor of Political Science at Amherst
College / for a talk on

CHAVEZ AND THE RISE OF COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM

Opening remarks by Ricardo Hausman, /Director of the Center for
International Development of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University /

Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 6:30 p.m.

STARR AUDITORIUM
/Belfer Center Building
Kennedy School of Government/

For directions to the Belfer Building:

/http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/main/directions.htm
/

Short Bio of Javier Corrales:

/http://www.amherst.edu/~jcorrale/aboutme.htm
/

Short Bio of Ricardo Hausmann:

/http://www.ksghome.harvard.edu/~rhausma/bio..htm
/

I got my wish rather quickly in this Editorial by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual

Uuuy, how scary!!! By Teodoro Petkoff

Chavez is “studying” the possibility of reforming the
Constitution to rule until his body can take it. The condition to fulfill this
threat would be that no opposition candidates participate in December and let
him running alone. Which, of course and can be discounted, according that that
frankly idiotic logic that sees even in the most trivial transportation strike a
“maneuver of imperialism” would also be a move by the empire. Forget your hypocrisy
and throw once and for all your pig’s tail to reform the Constitution, You have
always wanted that and for a long time you have been looking for the argument
to consecrate the lifetime Presidency. Stop play acting and “echale bolas” (go
ahead and do it) once and for all! We will se how Venezuelans respond to that
tyrannical initiative.

If Chavez thinks that, then “abort the maneuver by imperialism”
removing the oxygen that would be the argument to withdraw the candidacies of
the opposition: the electoral system and the Electoral Board (CNE). Exercise
your influence as President so that the CNE to be designated is and appears to
be honest, contributes to put in black and white the electoral conditions, a
large part of which, by the way, were advanced by the CNE and the political parties
of the opposition before the parliamentary elections and should be ratified now,
in writing with the CNE to complete what was advanced before last December 4^th.
 Chavez can be sure that if they come out
with a CNE that is a clone of the current CNE and that there will be no audit
of the voting machines nor suppression of the fingerprint machines nor
publication of the electoral registry nor manual counting of the ballots and
the gross use of the advantages of being Government currently in use is maintained,
it would be uphill to participate in an electoral process that would present
the same vices and defects that were already detected and made public by the
OAS as well as the European Union. Under those conditions not participating
will have nothing to do with imperialism nor with coup plotting, but with the
human condition of not behaving like imbeciles nor lending ourselves to a pantomime.
If Chavez wants competition, play fair. Don’t be afraid nor “shield” your
electoral efforts with tricks. If you are so sure of the ten million votes,
then go look for them in a fair fight. Don’t protect yourself neither under a
sold umpire, nor with balls with saliva nor changing the rules each inning. Play
fair to see if it is true the country accompanies you with so much inefficiency,
so much corruption, so much blabbing, so many unfair advantages, so much
discrimination and partiality, so much poverty.

The funniest thing is that Chavez considers the things he
said as “a lesson in true politics”. Perhaps he believes that these
trivialities about continuity are deserving of a Machiavelli or a Napoleon. Get
off that cloud “commander in chief” A guy who was particularly mediocre like
Perez Jimenez had the same idea. By the way, it did not work out well for him.

In the last few weeks, I have been writing about
corruption in the revolution and how there are so many things going on in the
country allowing a few to get rich, while the revolution looks the other way. Thus,
nothing has changed in Venezuela,
except that before there were independent institutions to denounce and watch
over corruption. Moreover, Venezuelans elected Hugo Chavez in part because he
said he would get rid of corruption, but corruption is worse than ever and
remarkably the revolutionaries are getting richer while allowing their
opponents to share the bounty.

Below, I post the first part of three articles which were
originally posted in complinet and
written by investigator Ken Rijock. Financial institutions have to deal in the
modern world with problems with money laundering, corruption and terrorism. Thus
they have to know their clients and understand the origin of the funds that
move through it. There are regulations to comply with, as well as the ability
to create the rules to eliminate the risk of dirty money flowing through your
institutions. Complinet helps British institutions do this by providing
training, databases of individuals and institutions that have to be monitored
and avoided as well as creating the environment for institutions to prevent the
flow of such funds through it. These three articles were published originally
in complinet, apparently as an example of the difficulties created by
Government corporations when they move money around the world. Remarkably, the example
given is that of Venezuela.
For those that don’t know, PEP means Politically Exposed Person, one category
that those opening accounts in financial instutions have to watch out for in particular.

These articles appeared in vcrisis in three parts (1,2,3) as well
as in IVAC but both were posted during the
holidays and unfortunately I missed them. I repost them here, because the charges
made in them are quite serious but they are very specific and precise and should at least be investigated,
in a country where lawlessness seems to be the rule of the day under the
watchful eye of those that are supposed to keep Government and corruption in
check. This is part I. Part II and III will be posted in the next few days.

PEPwatch: Beware of
government-controlled private corporations (Part 1)

By Ken Rijock, Originally appeared in COMPLINET

One of the most perplexing
phenomena for money laundering reporting officers and compliance officers is
the government-controlled corporation for profit, a prominent feature of the
Venezuelan Government’s recent attempts to launder money. Such corporations are
dangerous to Western financial institutions when their officers try to conceal
government ownership or control.

When a bank realises that
it is dealing with such a company, it knows immediately that its officers,
directors and agents rank as “politically exposed persons”. They
probably have access to “arranged” financing, public treasury
receipts, illicit funds and sundry other corrupt or criminal profits that they
can divert to the company’s accounts. The sources of these funds can range from
money stolen by the officers of the corporation to money laundered on the
orders of government agencies or leaders. At the same time that this happens,
the affiliated and subsidiary firms owned by a governmental, though private,
entity become high-risk companies in their turn. They require an extremely
“enhanced” form of “due diligence” before any bank can
accept them as customers.

Towards a command economy

The government of Venezuela
currently enjoys high-risk status. Its six-year history is littered with instances
of missing oil revenues, the diversion of funds to support and encourage
political chaos in the Western Hemisphere,
cooperation with Colombian terrorist groups such as FARC and the ELN, and more.
Any company or group that the government controls or owns beneficially must
also pose a high risk. Compliance departments must therefore insist on treating
the leaders of such companies as PEPs automatically. They must subject them to
the deepest of enquiries into the sources of their funds, whether in their personal
accounts or in company accounts located overseas. Venezuela-watchers believe
that the Chavez government is moving the country towards a command economy on
the Cuban model and is trying to acquire monopolies in crucial industries that
are presently in private hands. In one such area, the production and
distribution of food, it is believed that groups fronting for the government
are now acquiring some of the major companies.

Not just the usual suspects

The country’s major
“agribusiness” organisation is Grupo PROAREPA, which is the main food
supplier for the government’s food assistance and distribution programs, CASA
and MERCAL. Grupo Proarepa owns a number of companies, including at least one,
ALMACENES Y TRANSPORTES CEREALES or ATC. Venezuelan web bloggers and other
commentators believe that Adan Chavez, the brother of Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez, owns this subsidiary beneficially. Adan is the Venezuelan Ambassador to
Cuba
and an avowed Marxist. The group is also closely aligned with Argenis, another
of the Chavez brothers. That these individuals are high-risk PEPs is
self-evident.

There are several
“giveaways” that suggest that the government is controlling Grupo
Proarepa. People at the top in Venezuela
have used it to cover up a criminal investigation and have prevailed upon it to
turn a blind eye to tax evasion. In 2003 they also prevailed upon the National
Assembly to vote for a very suspicious credit, in the amount of $ 41,833.702,
to subsidiary PROFINCA. At the time, the subsidiary appeared to have no assets.
On the same day, the two speakers whose job it was to pilot the relevant bill
gave the chamber conflicting reasons for wanting the subsidy. Now, on to the
listed pro-Chavez group leadership. The “officers of record” ? i.e.,
the listed officers, of PROAREPA and its many subsidiaries ? are a curious cast
of characters. /Cedula/ numbers are national identity numbers.

* Sarkis
Beloune Arslanian, cedula 9280364, born on January 1 1953, is a
Venezuelan of Syrian extraction who was deported from the United States
and had his visa cancelled on December 6 2004. Such an extreme action generally
only occurs when US
law enforcement authorities have strong evidence of continuing criminal
activity. There are reports that he is under investigation for trading in
narcotics and laundering money.

* Ricardo
Fernandez Barrueco, cedula 9095496, born on April 9 1965, a
Venezuelan who possesses passports under both his Venezuelan citizenship and
that of a Colombian with a similar name, whose identity he is known to use. He
has accumulated a substantial fortune in an amazingly short time and associates
with such members of Chavez’s inner circle as Diosdado Cabello, the governor of
Miranda State, and President Hugo Chavez’ father and brothers. A Venezuelan
government criminal investigation by the national intelligence agency, DISIP,
of FERNANDEZ’S activities was terminated mysteriously in February 2001.
FERNANDEZ was being investigated for customs offences and other crimes related
to “agribusiness”. He authorised multi-million-dollar deals with
PROAL, the government food entity.

* General
(retired) Gustavo Adolfo Sanchez Gonzalez, cedula 4115600, born
March 5 1956, who was the director of PROAL at the time of the DISIP
investigation. SANCHEZ is an officer of American Air Conditioning, a Floridian
corporation, as are Fernandez and Arslanian.

Other persons associated
with the Proarepa Group, and thus holding PEP status, are Bernard Gerald, Angel
Fuentes Fragile, and the brothers, Adan, Edwin and Abraham Easer. The companies
that are part of PROAREPA are listed below. There are many of them and they are
of recent vintage; only three of them date to before 2000. Because most of them
were set up after the advent of the Chavez government, they must all be
considered as government entities for compliance purposes.

Venezuelan Government-controlled corporations

1 CORPORACIÓN TUREN.

2 COMMERCIALIZADORA DE GRANOS VENEZUELA R.S., C.A.

3 INVERSIONES MAJAGUAS R.S., C.A.

4 DISTRIBUIDORA LE MUST

5 VENARROZ R.S.A.C.A.

6 FB VALORES Y COMISIONES 1177 C.A.

7 INDUSTRIA VENEZOLANA MAIZERAPROAPEPA

8 VENEZOLANA DE GRANOS RSCA, C.A

9 ALMACENES Y TRANSPORTES CEREALEROS – (A.T.C.) C.A.

10 ROTCH ENERGY HOLDINGS
INC. (See note *)

11 AMERICAN AIR
CONDITIONING DE VENEZUELA C.A

12 MANTENIMIENTOS CONCRETA S.R.L.

13 AMERICAN AIR
CONDITIONING INTERNATIONAL INC.

14 PRONUTRICOS.

15 GANADERIA LOS BUFALOS DEL DELTA C.A.

16 CORN MILLS ANDINA, C.A.

17 INVERSIONES PORTENAS, C.A.

18 GANADERIA EL GRAN CEBU, C.A.

19 GRANOS DE VENEZUELA, LTD., C.A.

20 PRODUCTOS Y FINANCIAMIENTO AGRICOLA ( PROFINCA)

21 AMERICAN FOOD GRAIN
INC.

22 SERVICIOS PROARFE C,A,

23 CONSORCIO AGROPECUARIO VENEZOLANO C.A ( COAVE).

24 MANTENIMIENTOS POLIPLAST S.R.L.

25 CORPORACIÓN AGROPECUARIA INTEGRADA COMPANIA ANONIMA (CAICA).

26 MANTENIMIENTOS 2050 S.R.L.

27 DERIVADOS DE MAIZ SELECCIONADO, C.A. (Demaseca)

* This is a
Curaçao-registered company that is an authorised PDVSA broker. It is also the
vehicle through which Fernandez purchased a 50 per cent stake in Demaseca, a
subsidiary of Mexican food giant Gruma.

The Proarepa Group is
reputed to have as many as 40 overseas bank accounts, many in tax haven
jurisdictions such as Switzerland,
the Channel Islands and the Cayman Islands.
Complinet’s sources say that it focuses its efforts almost entirely on domestic
food production and distribution. Why, then, does it maintain such an extensive
network of offshore accounts? This should raise a major “red flag”
for compliance officers. MLROs and compliance officers should be mindful of
powerful private companies from countries where governmental influence intrudes
into the private sector, for they may very well be dealing with a wolf in
sheep’s clothing. Financial institutions that bed down with corrupt PEPs always
seem to have to suffer a barrage of bad publicity. They should therefore demand
proof positive of beneficial ownership whenever they encounter suspect
companies. This evidence should include sworn affidavits signed by partners of
major law firms and accounting organizations. Even then, they should verify the
information.

7 Years of Failure by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual

To be rich is bad, says Chávez. It is worse to be poor, says common sense. When so much wealth on one side goes together with so much poverty on the other side of a society, there exists an inequality that cries out to God. There exists a huge injustice, which, logically, is merciless with the poor, not with the rich. That is what happens today in our country. The difference between those that earn the most and the least income has widened even more in this period of Government. The abyss that separates the richest from the poorest has become unfathomable. We have the worst distribution of income in all of Latin America. Social inequality has accentuated during the “pretty revolution” that today, coincidentally, is having its seventh anniversary. The seven years of a huge failure, which coincides with the largest income that this country has known in all of its history.

Not even that beauty salon, with its make-up room, in which the National Institute for Statistics has become, can conceal that frightening reality. The allowances from the “misiones”, equivalent to half a minimum salary (some 200 thousand Bolivars), without any doubt have relatively increased the income of the poorest; because for those that have nothing, that in itself is an aid, but the legal and illegal deals that are being made today in the heat of the oil windfall, have increased to sidereal heights the already high income of the richest, among which we now count a new layer of multimillionaires, bolivarians, but because of the Bolivars.

The growing inequality blocks the equality of opportunities. Rich and poor people don’t start from the same starting gate in the race of life. The latter do it from far behind and the disadvantages of their condition gives them fewer years of school, least of all preparation and dexterity for work, much capacity to enjoy the spiritual goods of life, worse nutrition, and places them in a habitat that is in itself the denial of civilized life. The opportunities are not the same for a kid that lives in Carapita that for the one that does it in La Castellana. The great failure of this Government is that in seven years it has built a country with more inequalities than what it found, in which opportunities are even less for the more humble and the least sheltered.

In order to build a country of equality and justice it is necessary that people have an honorable job, a dignified education and decent social security. That requires the creation of jobs, promoting investment that creates jobs, instead of destroying them, as has been the case in the last seven years. That requires an emphasis in pre-school and primary education that demands the best quality from educators and a program so that no kid is left out of pre-school and primary school. There they are, the kids of the street as a terrible testimony of the failure.

Everyone has to count on a social security system that guarantees pensions that are decent and equal. This Government has seven years of debt with social protection. It is an undignified failure of a Government that claims to be one at the forefront of social justice.

Seven years should have been more than sufficient to have advanced in all of these aspects. Other countries have done it. We have gone backwards. Failure is the name of the game.

A Judge imposed censorhip on the Venezuelan media today as ordered from above by the autocrats. The order by the judge forbids “any type of publication, diffusion or exhibition of the files of the case relating to the terrorist attempt in which Danilo Anderson lost his life, as well as those that make reference to the private life of the witness Vasquez de Armas…because it is the job of the state to protect his dignity as a human being, his honor, his decorum, intimacy and physical integrity, since it corresponds to the State to guarantee the the good process of the judiciary process which has as its goal determining the materialand intellectual authorship of the terrorsit attempt that ended the life of Danilo Anderson”

This is called pure censorship, what they are trying to protect is that the “super-witness” is a criminal, with a track record for impersonating and suplanting others and who was in a Colombian jail when he claims the meeting to discuss the Anderson murder took place. None of these charges has been refuted by the PRoscutor’s office as the media has dug them up. What the judge is trying to protect is the crummy and sloppy job the Prosecutor has done in the case, where he invented evidence and created a witness whose credibility leaves a lot to be desired while he has failed to investigate leads suggesting there was an extortion ring surrounding Anderson and some of the same prosecutors involved in this case.

Another very sad day for what is left of Venezuela’s democracy, we have a new Pedro Estrada. What is next?

Well, once again, the CNE violated the law as well as the agreements,
by extending voting beyond 4 PM even if there are no voters in line.
Voting has been extended nationwide. Meanwhile, President Chavez also
violated
the law holding nationwide ‘cadenas” last night and today, as his two
last acts of
abuse of power of this plebiscite. Meanhwile, Deputy Iris Varela, who
will win her race, threatened public workers with firing if they do not go oit and vote. The pretty revolution goes on!

The question is what the spin is going to be.From Rangel’s spin that in
Canada people don’t vote in parlamentary elections to Disip trying to
raid the Hotel where the civil disobedience have their headquarters
today, there is little spin you can put on this. The numbers will show
that most Venezuelan stayed away from this plebiscite. This is no
democracy, this was no democratic process and despite the pressures,
threats and the massive spending to get out the vote, the Emperor has
shown that he is naked. Support for Chavez is no longer what it used to
be. The process was rigged and
they were caught redhanded, the absence of the opposition showed how
scant support is for the process.. Let’s see if they cheat again.

(And while this is going on, Vargas state is once again collapsing
under the rain in an electoral day. The Government, as usual, has said
nothing about this, as they could care less about the most Chavista state
in the Nation)

Electoral Board has agreed not to use fingerprint machines in the
upcoming electoral process to guarantee the secrecy of the vote.

One of the
advantages of having a blog reporting on Venezuelan events is that I have an
archive of what has been happening in Venezuela in the last three and some
years. Since I have written most of it, I tend to remember what I wrote about,
even if my memory is not as good as it used to be. A simple Google search
usually leads me to the right place and story to recreate links and bring back
history. Thus, it is not hard for me to go back and revisit issues, reconstruct
timelines and refresh events.

This all
comes to mind because I have been wondering during the last week, whether it
was worth doing a summary of the timeline of the Danilo Anderson case,
sprinkled with comments about inconsistencies and implausibilities. After all,
someone who does not live here and has not followed the case closely would not
have any clue about what this is all about when I post about it and whether
those accused last week may or not have something to do with the murder.

I sort of
put this project off a few times this week as work responsibilities did not
allow me to pursue the idea further earlier in the week. But then, I saw a sentence
in an interview with the Prosecutor General that just ‘irked me so much, that I
promised to work on this article before the week was over. Quico
also has a good summary, without a detailed timeline of events, which may
actually serve as a good introduction to my somewhat drier tale of the case
which follows.

So the Prosecutor
General, in an interview this week in Tal Cual said the following:

“Nobody has been as
coherent as me in this case . I have handled this case with the utmost
transparency”

The above
sentence is absolutely outrageous, as the following timeline of the Anderson case clearly
indicates and shows:

Nov-18-2004: Prosecutor Danilo Anderson, the
man put in charge of most political cases by the Prosecutor General, is
assassinated by the placement of a bomb under the armored Toyota Land Cruiser
he was driving (He did not own it, he usually drove a smaller Toyota as told to
Tal Cual in an interview weeks before his murder).

Strange
things about that night: 1) A group of intelligence police was patrolling the
streets near the site where the bomb blew off and according to witnesses
interviewed by the investigative police they blocked traffic right before the
explosion 2) Minutes after the explosion, in what was obviously a dangerous crime
site, when there could have been more bombs or explosions, high ranking
officials led by the Vice-President began showing up and giving interviews on
national TV in what should have been a cordoned off crime scene. 3) Danilo
Anderson’s body and car were not blown into pieces, suggesting an incendiary
device and not a powerful explosive device. Of course, the opposition was
immediately blamed.

Nov-20-2004. Danilo Anderson is buried and is
honored as a hero of the country and the revolution. He is given the highest
decoration of the land posthumously.

The
opposition continues to be blamed. The man caught on video as being one of the
murderers of Mrs. Maritza Ron on August 15^th. 2004, protesting the
results of the referendum, shows up at Anderson’s
funeral, despite the fact that he was in prison.

That same
day, Juan Bautista Guevara, a former intelligence police inspector is detained
by the investigative police, liberated and detained again. The Prosecutor
General first says Guevara has been detained, and then he claims he was wrong
and he is not in detention. He also says this was a terrorist act.

Nov. 23d. 2004. Lawyer Antonio Lopez Castillo is
intercepted by a police car and shot dead. There is no evidence that those
following him ever identified themselves as cops (They were driving an unmarked
car). His parents are detained and jailed

Danilo Anderson’
best friend, MVR city councilman Carlos Herrera, says that the Vice-President
had called Anderson a few times to ask that some members of the financial
system who Anderson was going to charge with rebellion for going to the
Presidential Palace on April 11^th. 2002 should not be charged.

Nov. 24. 2004. The Prosecutor General’s office
reports that brother Otoniel and Roland Guevara (Juan’s cousins) are missing.
Witnesses say Otoniel was detained by the police as he left the Magnum shooting
range in Caracas.

Nov. 25 2004. Juan Carlos Sanchez is shot dead
by the police in a Motel in Barquisimeto.
The Guevara brothers are supposedly detained by the National Guard.

Nov. 29^th. 2005. The investigative police raids
Club Hebraica a Jewish Country Club looking for clues about the Anderson murder. To date
there has been no explanation for this raid which was done by fully armed men
when the club was full of kids.

Castillo’s
parents are freed

The
Prosecutor asks that the Guevara brothers and cousin be jailed

Dec. 1^st. 2004 Due to the errors and excesses of
the investigative police the Prosecutor’s office removes the homicide
investigators from the Anderson case.

Prosecutor
says that the case is almost solved and soon they will announce who ordered the
assassination,

Dec. 8^th. 2004 The investigative police says 12
people received $100,000 each to kill Anderson
and it was brothers Rolando and Otoniel Guevara who planned it. Johann Pena
placed the explosive Pedro Lander built it and dead lawyer Antonio Lopez Castillo
supplied the explosives Pena and Lander and in the US.

Dec 12^th. 2004. The Guevara brothers say they have been
tortured. The cousin Juan says they want him to accuse his cousins.

Dec. 18^th. 2004. The Prosecutor General says that the statements by Councilman
Carlos Herrera have helped “orient” the investigations and they are closer to
the masterminds of the assassination. A
few days later he says that he does not discard the possibility that Danilo
Anderson was involved in blackmail relate to the cases he was handling.

Dec. 22^nd. 2004 Councilman Carlos Herrera accuses
Lawyer Socrates Tinaco of stealing a billion bolivars (US$ 520,000 at the time)
from Andersons’
apartment. Sometime around those days, Anderson’s
sister denounces that her brother’s two Jet skis, trailer and car can not be
found. She also wonders whatever happened to her brother’s two apartments. No explanation
is given for Anderson
wealth on his meager salary.

Dec. 31^st.2004 Minister of Justice Chacon says
the case is essentially solved and that the names will be announced in January.

Jan. 5^th. 2005. Minister of Justice Chacon says
that it has been determined that two law firms were contacting those being charged
with going to the Presidential Palace in April 11 2002, asking for money to be
removed off the list by Prosecutor Anderson. He implies that Anderson
knew little about it.(Curiously after this Anderson was no longer hailed as a hero,
until two nights ago)

Jan 10^th . 2005 Reporter Patricia Poleo accuses
Prosecutors Bauza and Castillo, the same ones in charge of her case today of
being part of Anderson’s
extortion ring.

March 10^th. 2005. The Prosecutor’s Office begins
citing bankers who attended a wedding in Dominican
Republic and they are told it is about the Anderson case

July 12^th. 2005. Prosecutor Rodriguez says that the
murderers had planned to murder either Chavez or him, but due to difficulties
with them, they decided to kill Anderson (!!). The purpose: To destabilize the
country! (By killing Anderson?)

Oct. 10^th. 2005. The Prosecutor General announces
that the CIA and the Colombian paramilitary were involved and he will charge
people on Nov. 4^th.

Then this
week, four apparently unconnected people were charged with Anderson’ murder.

The
evidence:

–Testimony
only from a Colombian who claims to
have been a member of the Colombian paramilitary. He says he was at all the
meetings at brought in 12 kilograms of C4 to kill Anderson. (Which would have blown up the
whole neighborhood where the explosion occurred, but Anderson’ body was intact, burned as if the
device was incendiary, but in one piece. In fact, here you can find an expert on explosive talking
about this inconsistency)

-.Telephone
calls between Johan Pena and Juan Carlos Sanchez murdered in Barquisimeto

That’s it!
A single person tells a story and he is given all of the credibility of the
world. When the press questions how a former paramilitary testimony can be
given so much credibility, Prosecutor General argues that the guy is a
psychiatrist (!!). But then in the last few days we have learned that:

–The name
of the infamous psychiatrist, the only witness, former military, does
not appear in any of the identification registries of the Colombian
Identification Office.

–The same
name fails
to appear in the records of the Colombian association of Psychiatrists.

–The
Colombian Intelligence Police say they have a record of someone that claimed to
have that name who was detained “a couple of times” for identity theft, claimed
to know German (which he didn’t) and claimed to be a psychiatrist (which he
wasn’t)

–This
guys Venezuelan ID card turns out not to exist.

And the
whole case that has been managed in such “coherent and transparent fashion” is
based only on this single witness!

And the
extortion ring?
And Anderson’s wealth?
And the
explosives?
And the
Intelligence police near the explosion right before it occurred?
And the Altamira murderer at the burial?
And the
twelve people that were paid $100,000 each to blow Anderson up?
And why
was Anderson
going around without bodyguards that night?
And how
did the murderers know it was his car, if it was not his?
And how
was he identified instantly if it was not his car?
And who
hired and protected the Guevara brothers to hide former Fujimori assistant
Montesinos while in hiding in Venezuela.

I guess I
ask too much, but hey, I only want simple answers, I am not even asking for
coherence!

Link is:

http://www.albacom.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id 1