Chávez reiterates to Obama extradition request for terrorist Posada Carriles http://embacu.cubaminrex.cu/Default.aspx?tabid=10973

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has repeated his request to the United States government for the extradition of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and former President Carlos Andrés Pérez, who was responsible for the Caracazo massacre, PL reported.

Chávez commented that U.S President Barack Obama should hand over Posada Carriles, a fugitive of Venezuelan justice and the mastermind behind the mid-flight explosion of a Cuban passenger plane in 1976 that caused the deaths of the 73 people on board. 

During a telephone interview on the "La Hojilla" television program Thursday morning, the president also called for former president Carlos Andrés Pérez to be handed over. Despite being wanted by the Venezuelan judicial system, Pérez is also protected by the United States.

comment-also see...BOLIVIA DEMANDS EX-PREFECT EXTRADITION FROM US http://world.brunei.fm/2010/01/03/bolivia-demands-ex-prefect-extradition-from-us

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Venezuelans commemorate the end  of the 21st anniversary of the slaughter of Caracazo http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/67500-NN/venezolanos-conmemoran-21-aniversario-de-masacre-de-el-caracazo/

The Venezuelan people commemorated on Saturday the 21st anniversary of the Caracazo, a slaughter that occurred during the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez on 27 and 28 February 1989, when an unknown number of people died. Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989-1993), exerted his second term in Venezuela when a rebellion broke out against his civic government. Popular sectors rose against the application of economic measures advised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The business plan included an increase in fares for public transport and gasoline. 

The popular outbreak began on 27 February 1989 for a protest in Guarenas (metropolitan area) and later expanded throughout the country.  A day earlier, the Ministry of Energy and Mines announces 30 percent hike in prices of petrol and the increase of urban public transport fares and inter-urban as well as 30 percent from 27 February valid for 3 months, after which could be increased up to 100 percent. The protests, strongly repressed by the police and army, according to the Government left about 300 dead Perez, however, witnesses, investigators and human rights organizations say more than a thousand. 

Many victims were buried in mass graves, specifically in the area of La Peste, located in the Southern General Cemetery in Caracas. Venezuelan authorities have now begun the process to identify  exhumed remains . The Caracazo was the   trigger for 2 thousand 357 men between civilians and military, led by the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, to organize a rebellion against Carlos Andrés Pérez, who had fled leaving country in poverty, corruption and a reign of impunity over the South American nation . On Thursday, Chavez recalled during the launch ceremony of the signal of Radio South (see...http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=84439 )from the Municipal Theater of Caracas, that day the village was massacred by government authorities, "a fact that one could not forget." 

Chavez explained that after the slaughter " the National Armed Forces grew into the need to shake off the curse of having shed the blood of the people." The president took the opportunity to extend an invitation to all Venezuelans involved in a major mobilization to remember the fallen of the slaughter of the Caracazo. The merger will take place in the popular area of El Valle, south of the capital, where the people lived thru most part of the repression by the repressive forces of government Perez said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro. 

The Bicentennial Youth Front (FJB)will also  take this weekend every square at Bolivar of Venezuela to commemorate this date. "Through murals they will speak their mind about youth achievements in 11 years of revolution, in contrast to the climate of oppression and social exclusion generated by the social upheaval of 27 and 28 February 1989," said the member of FJB, Erick Goicoechea

comment-also see..a short clip flashback of perez broadcasting  the neoliberal economic package to the nation and the popular revolts immediatly after put down by repressive  slaugther ... http://www.vtv.gov.ve/files/converted_videos/30917_ReporteVTV21aniv27F.flv

perez fled to usa where he was given asylum...till this day washington refuses to extradite this criminal .see...Chávez reiterates to Obama extradition request http://embacu.cubaminrex.cu/Default.aspx?tabid=10973

,in fact he became a most vocal opponent of Chavez's democratically ellected government and has  close ties to national endowment for democracy and other conservative groups working thru opposition groups who took part in the first coup against Chavez...