10/18/2005
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Hugo Chavez, President of the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela has signed an
order for the repatriation of seven evangelical missionary nuns, of US origin.
They are members of the group New Tribes, a religious organisation with its headquarters
in Florida, and that provides humanitarian aid throughout the world and has been
present in Venezuela for at least 45 years. The religious sect is suspected of
carrying out acts of espionage on behalf of the made in the USA, CIA. But not only this. The Venezuelan President spewed out some fiery words
against the work of the seven missionaries making it known that it constituted,
“real imperialist penetration, from the part of the CIA, shameful and painful,
that takes advantage of the indigenous population and that occupies itself with
gathering sensitive and strategic information.” And what’s more the President
didn’t forget to say that, “it’s not important what the opinions of the world’s
public are,” about this.
The facts. According to the Venezuelan administration, that has audio visual documentation
and information gathered by a police investigation, the New Tribes sect may have
built on Bolivarian territory landing strips for aeroplanes and have organised
flights without State authorisation, and that they have also evaded strict customs
controls and which Chavez has branded as, “a flagrant violation of our national
sovereignty.” According to the President these flights could have been monitoring
territory and providing useful and “fresh” information to the US intelligence services. But not only this. What appears to upset Chavez the most is the building
constructed by this evangelical organisation, right in the middle of indigenous
territory, and that are somewhat luxurious, with electrical systems and radio
communication, in a place where the indios continue dying from “malnutrition and diseases”. It’s from this that the decision
to expel them indefinitely came from.
Time and method. News of the expulsions arrived like an arrow from the Amazonian state of Apure, while the President was just about to deliver, as part of the agricultural
reform programme, land ownership deeds, agricultural vehicles and credit to the
local Indigenous community. Above all the news arrived on a very particular day:
the “Day of Indigenous Resistance” October 12th, that for us westerners is the date of the discovery of America, but for the
majority of the Latin American population constitutes the date of the beginning
of the indigenous fight against the conquering Spanish enemy. A date that for
sure wasn’t chosen coincidentally. There are many evangelical groups that are
in Latin America and, therefore, in Venezuela. In some cases, the method of evangelicalisation
of these religious organisations is dependent on an acceptance of the divine message,
this practice has turned up the noses of many, that’s to say irritated many, including
the Roman Catholic Church.
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In Venezuela, 7 Evangelical missionaries were accused of being spies for the US
Hugo Chavez, President of the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela has signed an
order for the repatriation of seven evangelical missionary nuns, of US origin.
They are members of the group New Tribes, a religious organisation with its headquarters
in Florida, and that provides humanitarian aid throughout the world and has been
present in Venezuela for at least 45 years. The religious sect is suspected of
carrying out acts of espionage on behalf of the made in the USA, CIA. But not only this. The Venezuelan President spewed out some fiery words
against the work of the seven missionaries making it known that it constituted,
“real imperialist penetration, from the part of the CIA, shameful and painful,
that takes advantage of the indigenous population and that occupies itself with
gathering sensitive and strategic information.” And what’s more the President
didn’t forget to say that, “it’s not important what the opinions of the world’s
public are,” about this.
The facts. According to the Venezuelan administration, that has audio visual documentation
and information gathered by a police investigation, the New Tribes sect may have
built on Bolivarian territory landing strips for aeroplanes and have organised
flights without State authorisation, and that they have also evaded strict customs
controls and which Chavez has branded as, “a flagrant violation of our national
sovereignty.” According to the President these flights could have been monitoring
territory and providing useful and “fresh” information to the US intelligence services. But not only this. What appears to upset Chavez the most is the building
constructed by this evangelical organisation, right in the middle of indigenous
territory, and that are somewhat luxurious, with electrical systems and radio
communication, in a place where the indios continue dying from “malnutrition and diseases”. It’s from this that the decision
to expel them indefinitely came from.Time and method. News of the expulsions arrived like an arrow from the Amazonian state of Apure, while the President was just about to deliver, as part of the agricultural
reform programme, land ownership deeds, agricultural vehicles and credit to the
local Indigenous community. Above all the news arrived on a very particular day:
the “Day of Indigenous Resistance” October 12th, that for us westerners is the date of the discovery of America, but for the
majority of the Latin American population constitutes the date of the beginning
of the indigenous fight against the conquering Spanish enemy. A date that for
sure wasn’t chosen coincidentally. There are many evangelical groups that are
in Latin America and, therefore, in Venezuela. In some cases, the method of evangelicalisation
of these religious organisations is dependent on an acceptance of the divine message,
this practice has turned up the noses of many, that’s to say irritated many, including
the Roman Catholic Church.Religious relationships. Socialism and Christianity, are the two currents of thought that are the essence
of Chavez’s political ideology. The relationship between Chavez’s life and religion
it’s not, however, a bed of roses. An example, in fact is that the President doesn’t
have a good relationship with the Reverend Pat Robertson, an American television
preacher, that over the last months has continually asked President Bush, with
whom he has an excellent friendship, to kill the Venezuelan. He was then forced
to excuse himself and there story ended. Now the TV preacher insists that Chavez
has funded the terrorist network of Al Qaeda, headed by the sheikh of terror Osama
Bin Laden, also giving the level of help ($1.2 million dollars) but no proof.
His final shot was about the nuclear intentions of Caracas. That Chavez has the
ability to destabilise Latin America and this makes the USA very fearful. Now
this seems to be something almost normal.
Alessandro Grandi
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