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11/20/2002: "[narconews] Main: Alfredo Pe�a's Little Army"

November 20, 2022
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Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few days, AP, Reuters and other simulators of international
public opinion have produced a number of articles that comment on the
Venezuelan National Guard's "takeover" of the Caracas Metropolitan police
stations. What's missing in most of these articles is context. The following
article, by Alex Main, provides a little background information on the PM
that helps understand why the Venezuelan government decided to have it
de-clawed.

I met Alex Main last June, while I reported from the Venezuelan capital. A
clean-cut young man from the United States, he had recently arrived in
Caracas to see, with his own eyes, what was happening. We went, together, to
the popular barrio of San Juan and spoke directly with the people. Main has
subsequently become an important organizer of international solidarity
efforts with Venezuelan democracy, and an honest set of eyes and ears for
the rest of us.

Read his report at:
http://www.narconews.com


Imagine, for a moment, that the Washington DC municipal police had
repeatedly shot and killed peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators, looted
radio and TV stations, attempted a coup d'etat and terrorized the
population... Would the national government then be justified in taking it
away from the rogue forces? That's what's happened in Venezuela, and as Main
reports, the common people - the majority, the ones that AP, Reuters and the
NY Times never allow to be heard - are cheering that it was long overdue.

What the professional simulators have distorted as a repressive act -
uniformed guardsmen removing uniformed police chiefs - was in fact a
liberation from a serious repression by uniformed rogue police against
civilians. The true facts show how knowingly dishonest the commercial US
correspondents have been with you, kind readers. If we had an honest media,
those simulators would have already have been fired.

from somewhere in a country called Am�rica,

Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
[email protected]

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