Far be it from anyone with an interest in seeing Chavez associated with $800,000 (no, better $5m!) of corruption money to ask some basic questions about the implausibility of the alleged facts.
As I did, just because I have a few brain cells working. Why would a dead cert for the Argentine presidency need any amount of campaign funds? And why would a suitcase full of embezzled dollars, allegedly with the blessing of the Venezuelan president himself, undergo the risk of being stopped by customs in Buenos Aires airport, instead of being safely smuggled by the diplomatic entourage of…the Venezuelan president himself?
Well, there was no need to speculate, because as it turns out we have solid proof that the bagman Antonini is a sworn enemy of Chavez. It couldn’t be more beautiful — this whisky-drinking, Hummer-driving pitiyanqui lives in a Miami mansion with a fleet of expensive cars, is a personal friend of escualido ex-president and Chavez-hater Carlos Andres Perez, and is reliably quoted by a third Chavez-hater as having proudly predicted the April 2002 coup just months before it occurred.
Chavez won’t last. He’ll fall soon. We’re going to topple him…he’s going to end up in jail.
Oh, and the best of luck with that!
Carlos, apparently you don’t read the news concerning the trial in Miami.
They should have landed on an airforce base with no controls, but the official Chavez flight caused an en route redirection to a normal airport. I.o.W. your why should one risk the customs argument is moot.
You also should read the letter Antonini wrote to Chavez. Sworn enemy ? ROTFL !
Ask yourself following questions:
How could a sworn and very public Chavez hater get on the plane ?
Why does the Venezuelan Attorney general NOT investigate the case ?
You should ask yourself a few other questions, Carlos.
If this is a CIA Makeup, how come that Chavez sent three people to bribe Antonini into a coverup ? He just could have started an ivestigation against him and uncover the CIA plot.
If this is a CIA Makeup, how come that this episode happened:
“, in an audio tape supposedly between the Head of the Venezuelan Intelligence Police General Rangel, accused last week by the US for cooperating in the FARC’s drug trafficking, Rangel tells Antonini to stay calm, that he understood his anguish and told him he did not have a copy of the letter to Chavez…but, says Rangel, there is no problem…and we are working to solve the problems down south. Later, Rangel says that he received instructions from the man he wrote the letter to, at which point the Prosecutor asked Antonini who that referred to and he answered: Hugo Chavez.” ?
I am awaiting your explanations.
Thanks! You’re blogroll bound, as soon as I can get my server to respond…
tom,
so you’re now introducing more evidence from the mouth and pen of the guy who’s now completely discredited? carry on, it’s fun to watch.
Carlos, another thing: Do you know why Chavistas frantically try to discredit Antonini ? Because they can’t disprove the facts.
No a very good defense strategy. It is a logical fallacy to assume that the message changes if you discredit the messenger.
Aside this, Carlos, you *still* owe us the answer to following questions:
Why would Chavez try to bribe Antonini into silence if that was a CIA action to discredit Chavez ? Why would the CHief of DISIP act as he acted ? All that makes only sense in one scenario, that of an utterly corrupt Venezuelan government.