El Salvador to investigate alleged Venezuelan funding of dissenters

[Judi Lynn]

Caracas, Thursday February 07 , 2008
El Salvador to investigate alleged Venezuelan funding of dissenters

El Salvador's government is launching a thorough investigation to determine whether Venezuela is actually funding the Salvadorian opposition, as the US intelligence services claimed in a report last Tuesday.

"We have opened an investigation into the reasons behind the remarks made in a US intelligence report," Salvadorian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Cálix told AFP.

Last Wednesday, El Salvador's President Antonio Saca, who is paying a visit to the United States, was delivered a copy of the annual report of the US National Security Director J. Michael McConnell, which suggested that the Venezuelan government is supposedly funding leftwing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).

Based on the report, the Venezuelan government is allegedly providing funds to the FMLN to secure a victory in the 2009 presidential election. The largest Salvadorian opposition organization has bluntly rejected such claims.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2008/02/07/en_pol_art_el-salvador-to-inves_07A1352173.shtml

(Quick, tell me if you see the hysterial irony in this opposition newspaper's attempt to condemn Chavez for claims made by the U.S. "intelligence services" (Bolton, Negroponte, Cheney, again), considering the HUGE piles of money _Bush is pouring into Venezuelan opposition forces. Oh my God.)



Maria Corina Machado, of U.S. funded Venezuelan opposition group, Sumate
as she is received by the man who sends her U.S. taxpayers' hard-earned
money, probably by the truckload, for furthering U.S. right-wing interests
in overthrowing the elected President of Venezuela.

Or, maybe she takes some of her rewards like the U.S.-supported Cuban dissidents
in the form of cashmere sweaters, Godiva chocolates,PlayStations, leather jackets, etc.

[EFerrari]

1. Puppets. It's nice to have puppets. n/t