FREE AND REINSTATE PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ! Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - "Luis A. Martin" Dear Friends, Minutes ago the news wires reported that the inaguration of Carmona in Caracas was called off due to massive demonstrations in Venezuela calling for President Hugo Chavez to be released from military custody. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Roque reported yesterday that, according to the Venezuelan Constitution, a presidential resignation has to be conducted before a session of the Venezuelan congress. Anyone in Venezuela demanding to see Chavez' resignation or his purported firing of the vicepresident has been either fired or arrested. The Bush Administration has been collaborating with the Venezuelan military by upholding their false claims of a resignation. The circumstances are almost identical as the recent events in Monterrey, Mexico. We must not be fooled also by the numerous calls from the Latin American and Europen governments for speedy elections in Venezuela. This is a whitewash with a shamelss double standard. These are the same governments that regularly exert pressure on Cuba to release so-called political prisoners. Instead, our united call must be: FREE AND REINSTATE PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ! Let's not limit the use the internet to merely relay and digest news. Let's not merely issue statements rehashing the events and lament how bad things are. Let's organize and coordinate the widest possible protest under this slogan! President Hugo Chavez and the people of venezuela deserve our active solidarity. Since Salvador Allende, Latin America has not produced a more decent and courageous president. Besides, there can not be disagreement that the fate of people of Venezuela and the people of Cuba is one and the same. What we do for Venezuela, we also do for Cuba. Fraternally, Luis Martin ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytact-04.13.02-22:14:01-18955