AP Defames Venezuela withPatricia Andrade’s Lies

The “director of a non-governmental organization with headquarters in Miami” asked the State Department and congressmen to come out in favor of the immediate release of “political prisoners” with medical conditions in Venezuela, reports the Associated Press without clarifying that the “director” and the NGO are no more than North American intelligence instruments being used to undermine Hugo Chavez.

It also fails to mention that the prisoners listed are ex-policemen convicted of murder during the coup of 2002.

The author of the article — rigorously crafted according to the CIA model of “demonization” of foreign leaders — does not indicate that Patricia Andrade, director of the Venezuela Awareness Foundation and a former employee of the Organization of American States, is associated with the former Undersecretary of the State Department Roger Noriega, with the leaders of groups linked to the Cuban-American mafia in Miami and with accomplices to the murder of Venezuelan prosecutor Danilo Anderson, who are fugitives from Venezuelan justice.

In December 2005, Venezuelan members of parliament presented recorded telephone conversations between Patricia Andrade and Tamara Sujú, niece of Oswaldo Sujú; linked to the coup in 2002, in which they discussed the need to use a diplomatic bag from the U.S. embassy in Caracas to communicate with presumed terrorists.

The AP must know that Andrade’s trip to Washington was planned entirely by the ultraconservative senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, as well as by representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee House, and Connie Mack, chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. All of them are part of the Cuban-American connection on the extreme right that influences U.S. policies in Latin America.

Andrade also is a part of the Venezuelan connection to the CIA in Miami, made up of, among others, Patricia Poleo, Nelson Mezerhane, Johann Peña, Pedro Lander, all linked to the murder of former prosecutor Danilo Anderson, and of military traitors, financial con artists, executives that overthrow television networks and their counterparts.

Coup Murderers Search For “Diseases”

Andrade turned in a list of eight people to Moisés Behar Wednesday, a government employee of the Venezuelan State Department and to the Democratic representative Luis Gutiérrez.

The day before she had already met with Ros-Lehtinen, Mack, Nelson and Rubio.

Ironically, the AP reports that Andrade exclaimed to a reporter that she “really liked” the “receptiveness” with which her approach was received in the different meetings with the legislators.*

Andrade’s boss, the neo-facisct Alejandro Peña Esclusa who “suffers from cancer but has not received appropriate medical attention,” also belongs to the group of prisoners. Peña Esclusa’s alleged cancer has recently become the most used appeal for him while he awaits trial in Caracas following his arrest for having C-4 explosives, which came after his condemnation by the El Salvadorian terrorist Francisco Chávez Abarca, Luis Posada Carriles’ right hand man — information that the AP fails to report.

The AP also doesn’t mention that almost all the rest of “Chavez’s victims” are ex-police conspirators in the coup — including several captains — tried and convicted for the deaths of Erasmo Sánchez, Rudy Alfonso Duque and Josefina Rengifo, and for wounding 29 others during the events of April 11, 2002.

The Venezuelan “activist” mentions that Arube Pérez “had a heart attack and two earlier pre-heart attacks.” The individual was identified as the sniper that shot Bolivian demonstrators with a M-16 rifle on the day of the coup.

The same is happening with police captains Henry Vivas (gastritis), Lázaro Forero (glaucoma) and Simonovis (spinal injury), as well as agent Erasmo Bolívar (detachment of the left retina).

Furthermore, the list includes José Sánchez, who is serving 19 years for first-degree murder and is “suffering from severe lower back pain, gastritis and hypertension.”

Of course Andrade’s “request” includes the corrupt judge María Afiuni, detained and accused of complicity in the escape of former banking con artist Eligio Cedeño, a refugee in Miami.

According to the AP, Cedeño is simply a “businessman that is opposed to Hugo Chavez’s government.”

For onlookers, the AP’s cooperation with the public diplomacy “services” of the State Department and with the corresponding mechanisms of North American intelligence is nothing more than another aspect of the campaign of defamation and misinformation started by the United States against Cuba, and is a full-fledged act of aggression towards Venezuela.

*Editor’s Note: This quote, while accurately translated, could not be verified.