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Old 03-06-2004, 13:37   #11
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Caval asks Freites what was meant by "more blood" being needed in the revolution, and he responds by saying they were told that within the revolution one does not have a right to his own life, but rather that life belongs to the cause.

Caval asks what kind of training and information was given, stating that he imagines it did not have much to do with social work.

Freites says the instruction was based on training them as cadres, or leaders, and the fact that he and the other members of the group would eventually take the reigns of the revolution and replace all the political parties and other groups currently supporting the revolution, because Chavez told them on one occasion that he sees them as "devils" who are always asking for their share of power and who all have a hand around his neck and are choking him. Included in this group of "devils," according to Freites, are Venezuelan Petroleum, Inc (PDVSA), Fatherland for All (PPT), MVR, etc.

Caval asks what Fidel Castro had to say specifically to his group in Havana.

Freites states that the main thing Castro strove to do was express the need for them to be against the US Government, because all it was interested in was Venezuelan oil. He says Castro told them they could count on Cuba, and that he always invoked the image and thoughts of Jose Marti and Che Guevara. He says they were even taken to Santa Clara where there is a monument to Guevara, and he says all people in a photo he shows from the outing are Venezuelans. He says they were all made to proffer a blood oath that they would be willing to die for the Bolivarian revolution.

In the studio, political analyst Anibal Romero comments on what Freites is stating in his interview, saying that it is additional evidence that Chavez is attempting to raise a parallel army to prepare for a civil war and massacre those Venezuelans who are opposed to his totalitarian designs. He says that at no time in Venezuela's history has a foreign government  in this case, the government of Cuba  been allowed to penetrate the national government to such an extent. This is treason. This interview shows that Chavez is capable of leading Venezuela to a national tragedy.

Caval asks Freites where else, besides Fort Tiuna, there are armed members of Cuban intelligence.

Freites said that the "Group of 40," which he belonged to, must by now be halfway through its training in Fort Tiuna, and that when he left they were being trained to coordinate clashes and neutralize the main opponents of the revolutionary government. He says they were receiving instruction by Cubans and that they would use that training in action to be taken later. When asked who some of the main targets are, Freites says they are people like governors and mayors who do not agree with the "process," as well as leaders of the opposition parties and groups. In fact, he says that Fidel mentioned some of these people by name, such as former Carabobo mayor Salas Romer and Miranda Governor Enrique Mendoza. He states that the leadership of the Venezuelan Workers Confederation (CTV) and Petroleum People are also targets, for example, along with the media, especially the group Chavez likes to call the "four horsemen of the apocalypse" -- Globovision, Venevision, Televen, and Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). He says that all the missions, such as the Robinson Mission and the Rivas Mission, are carbon copies of groups in Cuba, and that the goods and materials they utilize come from Cuba.

Video returns to the archive interview with Cuban journalist Uberto Mario Hernandez. He says that the Cuban consulate in Caracas hands out Communist propaganda material. This same material is spread by Cuban doctors in Venezuela when they go into the poor communities to take care of patients.

Freites said that when he was in Cuba they were told that the instruction they were receiving was in exchange for Venezuelan petroleum, but that they should not see Cuba as taking advantage of Venezuela in this regard, because the knowledge they were getting was worth more than oil.

Caval once again asks Freites about Cuban intelligence personnel in Venezuela and if he knows how many of such people there might be.

Freites says there are two such individuals, and that one goes by Noel and the other Guillermo. He said their cover is that they are supposedly acting as directors of the different missions, but that their real, secret mission is to gather information in eastern Venezuela and send it directly to Cuba.

Caval asks Freites what has happened in his life since he left his training program to go into hiding and what he expects from this point on.

Freites says that he thought long and hard about it when he decided to become a deserter, and that the deciding factor was that he was not a murdered and could not shoot other Venezuelans. He says there are other "brigade members" who would like to leave, too, but that fear keeps them there. He said it is fear of what he is going through, of not knowing anything about his family, of being on the move constantly and not sleeping well because he knows that he is a target of these people. He says his possible pursuers could include the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP), the Metropolitan Police, the Judicial technical Police (PTJ), etc. He states that he will ask for protection, and he feels that when this interview comes out it will be explosive and will force a change in the leadership of the Francisco de Miranda Front.

Freites concludes by saying that while the idea of this front is for the people to see this group as socials workers, they are really social fighters, and that in their training they were told that while a social worker is not willing to give up his or her life for their work, social fighters are ready to give up their life, and that if this is not the case, they do not deserve that life.

Political analyst Anibal Romero concludes that the purpose of Cuban officials in Venezuela is fourfold: to provide personal protection for Hugo Chavez, to promote revolutionary laws that will lead to a system of absolute power in Venezuela, to control the armed forces and prevent a resistance movement, and to infiltrate the intelligence services and the police force while reporting back to Cuba on Venezuela's state of affairs.
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