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Counterpunch
December 2, 2004
Saul Landau

NSC Adviser Abrams reportedly met with Venezuelan Coup plotters before attempt, knew of timing, and called chances of coup's success "excellent"

The November 18 car bombing of Danilo Anderson in Caracas brought back vivid memories.... I didn't know Anderson. But like [Orlando] Letelier, he had information on coup plotters, those who tried to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April 2002. Neither Anderson's nor Letelier's assassination required Sherlock Homes to guide police in their hunt...

...Anderson apparently had also developed a case that linked US agencies to the coup. Otto Reich, then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, had met repeatedly with the coup plotters before their failed attempt to oust Chavez as had Elliot Abrams, of the National Security Council. Like Reich, Abrams led the ideological charge in the 1980s "dirty wars," in which US policy became linked to Central American death sq uads. The April 21, 2002 Observer, citing OAS sources, states that Abrams and Reich discussed the coup "in some detail, right down to its timing and chances of success, which were deemed to be excellent."

Also see: National Endowment for Democracy Funded Venezuelan Coup Perpetrators, and MT's National Endowment for Democracy profile.

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