Bases rusas en Venezuela

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Rusia mandó un buque de guerra a Venezuela para evitar un golpe de Estado de Estados Unidos.
Jueves, 27 de febrero del 2014
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El viernes 21 de febrero a las 10:00AM, arribó el buque de guerra ruso Moskva (Moscú) a La Guaira, principal puerto de Venezuela, ubicado a 30 kilómetros de Caracas, la capital. También llegó un antisubmarino, un buque remolcador y un buque sistema. En total son 150 marinos de la Federación Naval Rusa los que arribaron al país, según lo reseñó la Agencia Venezolana de Noticias (AVN).

La visita sirve para estrechar los lazos de cooperación entre ambas naciones.

"Nuestra presencia en Venezuela es para evitar futuros ataques y golpes de Estado de EUA"

En La Guaira fueron recibidos por el alto mando militar de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (FANB). “Esta visita permite la creación y el mantenimiento de puntos pluripolares de poder para que logremos un mundo más equilibrado”, señaló el almirante Jesús Ortega Hernández, comandante naval de operaciones.

El buque de guerra Moskva es un crucero lanzamisiles. A cargo está el almirante Valeri Vladimírovich Kulikov.

“El barco, de 185 metros de largo, cuenta con radares y armas de todo tipo, entre ellas cohetes de más de 600 kilómetros de alcance y cañones móviles capaces de repeler amenazas en un radio de 60 kilómetros”, explicó el capitán de navío Serguéi Ivánovich, en declaraciones dadas a la prensa comento: “Nuestro buque puede operar en cualquier lugar del mundo de manera autónoma, sin ningún problema, y puede defender cualquier territorio, incluido Venezuela y Cuba”.

Venezuela y Rusia mantienen una intensa agenda de cooperación bilateral. Se han firmado numerosos acuerdos entre ambos países. Rusia es el principal proveedor de armamento de la nación suramericana. Según el informe sobre las 'Tendencias de Transferencia de Armas 2012' del Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, publicado por el diario El Nacional de Caracas, Rusia proveyó 66 % del armamento que compró Venezuela entre 2008 y 2013. El año pasado las órdenes de entrega de armas incluyeron sistemas antiaéreos, helicópteros, tanques, sistemas de misiles, misiles para tanques y aviones.En noviembre de 2008 otro crucero nuclear misilístico ruso, Pedro el Grande, visitó Venezuela. Un destructor, dos navíos de escolta y cinco aeronaves completaron la flotilla que realizó maniobras navales conjuntas con su similar venezolano. En los ejercicios participaron 11 buques de la Marina y ocho aeronaves, según las reseñas periodísticas de la época. Involucraron a 1.150 efectivos militares rusos y 600 venezolanos.

Asimismo, Rusia tiene planes de ampliar el número de bases militares en el exterior y actualmente sostiene conversaciones sobre este asunto con Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, islas Seychelles y Singapur, declaró el ministro ruso de Defensa, Serguéi Shoigú quien aseguró que su país busca establecer bases militares tanto en Venezuela como en Vietnam, Cuba y Nicaragua, “para facilitar el reabastecimiento de buques y aviones”.

“Realizamos muchos vuelos, pero para hacerlo activamente, se necesitan bases para el reabastecimiento, es necesario que nuestro avión cisterna Il-78 nos espere en el Ecuador, o en otro lugar”, dijo Shoigú, citado por La Voz de Rusia .

An IL-78 Midas sits on display on the flight line in support of the Russian visit.

academico / Feb 27, 2014 @ 11:45 am

Rusia tiene planes de ampliar el número de bases militares en el exterior y actualmente sostiene conversaciones sobre este asunto con Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Vietnam, islas Seychelles y Singapur, declaró hoy el ministro ruso de Defensa Serguéi Shoigú.

el ministro de Defensa ruso, Serguéi Shoigú, aseguró que su país busca establecer bases militares en Venezuela, Vietnam, Cuba y Nicaragua, *para facilitar el reabastecimiento de buques y aviones*.

“Realizamos muchos vuelos, pero para hacerlo activamente, *se necesitan bases para el reabastecimiento*, es necesario que nuestro avión cisterna Il-78 nos espere en el Ecuador, o en otro lugar”, dijo Shoigú, citado por La Voz de Rusia .

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PERUVIAN MOCHE CULTURE THE MASTERS OF THE SEAS

New exhibition on ancient Peruvians and the ocean open in Lima

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Peru’s National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History is has a new exhibit that explores ancient peoples’ relationship with the sea.

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The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History in Pueblo Libre, Lima may not be one of the city’s most glamorous museums, but it does have one of the most varied and educational collections around. And for the summer, the museum has put on a season-appropriate exhibit: “From myth to reality: The sea, source of life.”

According to Andina news agency, the exhibit explores the relationship that ancient Peruvians had with the ocean. The display includes pieces from the Chancay, Chimú, Paracas, and Inca cultures.

There are 61 different artifacts on display, including ceramics, models, and ancient tools such as harpoons and weights for fishing nets.

Lyda Casas Salazar, who has done extensive investigation in the area with scholarly partner Maritza Perez Ponce, told Andina “The remains of boats and the artistic representations of man working in the sea indicate [how] tools related to marine life [evolved].”

The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History is located on the Plaza Bolívar in Pueblo Libre. According to the official Facebook page of the museum, the pieces will be on display until the end of the summer. Admission is free and the museum is open from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM from Monday to Saturday and 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Sundays.

THE KILLING CONTINUES IN VENEZUELA NEW TOLL 13 STUDENTS MURDERED BY MADURO'S REPRESSION

Brutality on unarmed civilians continues in Venezuela

Submitted by Alek Boyd on Tue, 25/02/2014 - 08:59
We were sat in his smoke filled living room. A chain smoker, he was recounting an episode of his life he'd rather not lived. Painful, as it was, he said that when the torture started the guards were laughing, joking, feeling powerful, amused even. He had gone into a hunger strike but the State had a different idea, he had to be kept alive, and so he would be forced fed by ramming tubes down his nostrils which were then removed. Every day. They kept that form of torture for 12 days, and finally desisted. When it ended, the doctors and the guards were emotionally broken. I asked how could he keep his mental sanity in such conditions, he said: "when you're not allowed to think for yourself, when you're not allowed to have, and voice, an opinion, insofar as such opinion is contrary to the diktats of the ruling party, you lose the only thing that makes us human. You become like an object in a meaningless life, and such life is not worth living. So I decided to rebel against that system and I had no fear of dying, for living in such condition was akin to being dead." Today, when I see images of the brutality unleashed by the Maduro regime on unarmed, innocent civilians, whose only "crime" is to protest, I can't help but remember Vladimir Bukovsky's words.


What does Maduro want to achieve with such brutality? Does he understand that this senseless attack on unarmed civilians can only radicalise protesters? 
The images and video happened yesterday, 21 days after protests erupted around Venezuela. The victim, Marvinia Jimenez, was viciously beaten and injured. On 2nd 4th February a rape attempt on a student of University of Los Andes in San Cristobal caused such indignation that her fellow students went out to protest. Some of them were arrested and sent to prison in Coro, hundreds of kilometers away from their homes and place of study. Now why would authorities do that, if not to provoke?
As I wrote yesterday in London's Evening Standard, the key issue here is crime. Experts estimate (chavismo stopped publishing figures years ago) that over 24,000 Venezuelans lost their lives to crime in 2013, and over 100,000 since chavismo took power in 1998. 97% of homicides go unpunished. Therefore criminals know that there's only a marginal chance of ever getting caught. To compound the problem, incitement of hatred has been one of chavismo central policies. First Hugo Chavez, and now his succesor, refer to opposition as fascists, imperial lap dogs, putschists, radicals. State security forces have been fed a relentless hatred discourse, one of "us against the enemies of the revolution". The official mantra was, until Chavez discovered he was going to die of cancer, "Fatherland, socialism or death". Thus the National Guard up there in the picture (already identified as Josneidy Nayari Castillo Mendoza, ID no. 19.445.226) knows not only that there's a slim chance of ever facing justice, but that such actions have been promoted, encouraged and expected by the highest executive office all the way down the chain of command.
21 days on, and Maduro is yet to address the issue of brutality and terror meted out to innocent students by the State security apparatus and paramilitary thugs aligned with his regime. In a meeting in Washington the other day I heard someone asking what the U.S. could do to diffuse tensions. My answer was to remind Venezuela of all the binding international treaties on human, civil and political rights that has signed and ratified. Radek Sikorski, one of the three European brokers that went to Ukraine to get the parties to find a solution to the escalating violence, tweeted the other day: "Naturally, like all Council of Europe members, Ukraine is treaty-bound to respect the rights of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities." And so is Venezuela, whose ratification to be bound by international rights treaties carries the obligation of respecting life, right to assemble and to protest, while torture, use of excessive force and persecution on political grounds are forbidden. Where is the international community on this? It has been argued that the decision by Germany, France and Poland to fashion a mission to halt Putin's control over puppet Viktor Yanukovych was due to Ukraine's proximity. It would appear that the big EU beasts just aren't prepared to put up with the former KGB thug messing about so close. But what to make of the silence of Colombia and Brazil vis-a-vis the situation in Venezuela? If Maduro continues pushing the country to civil war, do Juan Manuel Santos and Dilma Roussef really think that their golden deals with chavismo will survive?
Yesterday an important development took place. Jose Vielma Mora, Governor of Tachira estate and ally of Diosdado Cabello, made some startling criticism of Maduro's handling of the crisis in a radio interview. While most Venezuelans concluded it was nothing more than a red herring, I see it as a formal declaration intended to send a message to Maduro. Unlike what most believe, chavismo is anything but monolithic. Maduro's faction (totally submitted to the Castros' designs) is not necesarily at ease with Diosdado's (with real military power). In fact, I would argue that, hidden from view, a tug of war is tearing chavismo apart, while the paramilitary (leaning towards Maduro) and the National Guard (leaning towards Diosdado) have been pretty much left to their own devices. Maduro and Cabello are jokeying for position, and one can only dread what's to come if Cabello ends up on top.
It is high time for the international community to implement a carrot and stick policy towards chavismo. 14 people have already been killed. Torture and brutality, as seen above, is part of everyday life for some and there's no sign of relenting on either side. Furthermore, repression of the sort depicted above will only lead to radicalisation and an escalation of violence. This state of affairs is, quite simply, unacceptable. The control of security forces, whether traditional or paramilitary, rests solely in official hands. Maduro and Cabello must stop this. The European Union and the U.S. could start by announcing an immediate freezing of bank accounts and seizing of assets held by proxies in respective jurisdictions. Target where it hurts. I just can't believe that Venezuela and its regional satellites can muster more diplomatic power than Mexico, Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Imperialist Putin has just been defeated in his own backyard, how come Cuba can't in Venezuela?

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans will take to the streets today

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans will take to the streets today. The Maduro regime has failed spectacularly in its attempt to 'convince' the world that widespread protests that have rocked our country since Feb. 2 [http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/21/the-venezuelan-outcry-faqs] are the product of U.S. intervention, fascism and other such totally unsubstantiated nonsense. I remember having written a while ago that if the Cuban dictators could not impede the free flow of information in the prison island, Maduro stood no chance of succeeding at it. Despite the local media blackout, social media has roundly defeated all chavista attempts at censorship. But as the saying goes "it ain't over till the fat lady sings." And today, could be just the day, when the cries for help, peace, prosperity and democracy of millions of Venezuelans are channelled into a new freedom anthem. Today we shall hear a collective singing, and those of us fortunate enough to be heeding the call from the safe distance must assist in whichever way we can, be it by calling local media to raise the Venezuelan issue, talking to our representatives in Congress / government, and helping spread the news.

After a week of impromptu meetings at all levels in Washington, during which I pulled quite the cheeky trick of taking a selfie with The Dalai Lama after asking for help for Venezuela [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dalai-lama-translates-true-happiness-during-visit-to-american-enterprise-institute/2014/02/20/37fa68e8-9a48-11e3-b88d-f36c07223d88_story.html], I can say that there's tremendous interest by every single person I met to help solve our problems. That solutions passes, naturally, through Maduro, whose regime has done nothing, emphasis here, to placate the brutality of National Guards and paramilitary thugs against student protests. Maduro has to be called into account here. Venezuela is signatory to a number of international treaties enshrining basic human, civil and political rights principles. Those treaties are binding. Venezuela signed and ratified them in full exercise of its sovereignty, on its own volition, without pressure, coercion or imposition from any country. Those rights are also part of our Constitution, the one written by chavismo. At this hour, when many policy makers and officials around the world ponder what to do, it is worth reminding them that basic rights continue to be inalienable. Non negotiable. There's no room here for political and economic considerations, or ideological revisionism. It is not a right or left issue, nor a conservative or liberal one. This is a right or wrong issue. It just could not be more basic, and Maduro needs to be taken to account. As head of State, he is directly responsible for the deaths and suffering caused in the last few days. Sending untrained, armed-to-the-teeth brutes, and thuggish regime sympathisers to deal with peaceful protests is just unacceptable, I am convinced that every true democrat knows that.

As our glorious student movement stays out in the street, to be joined today by hundreds of thousands, I would like to ask for your attention. Today is a significant day in the road to recover a semblance of democracy in Venezuela. Maduro, ill advised and desperate as he is, could well be in a double-down-let's-wrap-this-thing-today mood. It is crucial, to those working the diplomatic lines today, to make him and his faction understand that a retreat with safety guarantees is always more appealing than jail. Ditto with Diosdado Cabello and his lot. They fear, naturally, the cost of not having power and the immunity that provides, and so amnesty must be part of the bargain. They are cornered and they know it, but let cool heads prevail at this time. Venezuela does not deserve another death, nor another day of mismanagement in the name of an utterly failed model.

Thanks in advance from a grateful Venezuelan.

Alek Boyd

CNN reporter Karl Penhaul and his crew were assaulted by police in Caracas

In the last few days the chavista regime in Venezuela censored the Colombian news channel NTN24. CNN reporter Karl Penhaul and his crew were assaulted by police in Caracas for, basically, doing their job. Caracas Press Club and Instituto Sociedad y Prensa have reported various attacks on journalists in the last few days. Images and videos of the brutality unleashed on protesters uploaded to Twitter have reportedly been censored. Yesterday, President Maduro threatened to kick CNN out of the country.

While the above will almost certainly be justified by the regime for flaming the fire, I would like to remind Venezuela observers that my own blog (infodio.com) which deals almost exclusively with corruption and it's written mainly in English, has been censored since 16 Jan 2014. And there's no point in even bringing up the case of RCTV, take over of dozens radio stations, how Globovision was choked with tax investigations and other measures until a group of Boligarchs bought it, how the regime has starved critical newspapers of foreign currency so that paper can't be imported, or the little known acquisition of Venezuela's largest newspaper conglomerate (Cadena Capriles) by proxies of chavista governor Tareck el Aissami.

I heard at a CSIS event the other day from a bearded Chilean gentleman that since a few critical opeds are still printed in El Universal that proves that there's still freedom of the press in Venezuela. While the opinion, totally discredited, of communist nostalgics is heard in free societies, Venezuelans are seeing a creeping curtain of censorship from a regime desperate to hide the brutal repression meted out to protesters and innocent civilians. 
Tachira state, in the border with Colombia and where protests started due to a rape attempt on a student, has no internet access. Russian Sukhoi fighter jets and two battalions have been deployed to further repression.

Events in Venezuela are happening at a speed that makes impossible for traditional media to keep tabs. Protests are not taking place only in Caracas, the entire country is up against chavismo. Opposition leaders have called for a demonstration tomorrow, which is likely to turn into hundreds of thousands of people across the country taking to the streets to support students protests and to decry the deaths, injured, torture and the horrible economic situation.

The best way of keeping abreast with what's happening is through Twitter. You can follow me @alekboyd and other bloggers and colleagues to get the latest. In this dire hour what we need and expect from democrats around the world is solidarity, and help to overcome censorship by retweeting news coming out of our country.

REPORTERO DE CNN AGREDIDO BRUTALMENTE POR LA POLICIA DE CARACAS

En los últimos días del régimen chavista en Venezuela censuró el canal de noticias colombiano NTN24 . Reportero de CNN Karl Penhaul y su tripulación fueron agredidos por la policía en Caracas para , básicamente , hacer su trabajo. Caracas Press Club y el Instituto Sociedad y Prensa han reportado varios ataques a periodistas en los últimos días . Imágenes y vídeos de la brutalidad desatada contra manifestantes subidos a Twitter informa, han sido censurados . Ayer, el presidente Maduro amenazó con patear CNN fuera del país .

Si bien lo anterior es casi seguro que serán justificados por el régimen de llamas del fuego, me gustaría recordar a los observadores de Venezuela de que mi propio blog ( infodio.com ), que trata casi exclusivamente de la corrupción y está escrito principalmente en Inglés , ha sido censurada desde el 16 de 01 2014 . Y no hay sentido ni siquiera traer a colación el caso de RCTV, hacerse cargo de docenas de estaciones de radio, cómo Globovisión fue ahogada por las investigaciones fiscales y otras medidas hasta que un grupo de Boligarchs compró, cómo el régimen se ha muerto de hambre periódicos críticos de la moneda extranjera para que papel no se puede importar , o de la adquisición poco conocida de mayor conglomerado periódico de Venezuela (Cadena Capriles ) por apoderados de gobernador chavista , Tareck El Aissami .

Escuché en un evento CSIS el otro día de un caballero barbudo chileno que desde hace algunos OpEds críticos todavía se imprimen en El Universal que demuestra que todavía hay libertad de prensa en Venezuela . Si bien la opinión , totalmente desacreditada , de nostálgicos comunistas se escucha en las sociedades libres , los venezolanos están viendo una cortina de reptil de la censura de un régimen desesperado por ocultar la represión brutal infligido a los manifestantes y civiles inocentes. Estado Táchira, en la frontera con Colombia y donde las protestas se inició debido a un intento de violación de un estudiante , no tiene acceso a internet. Rusia aviones de combate Sukhoi y dos batallones han sido desplegados en más represión.

Eventos en Venezuela están sucediendo a una velocidad que hace imposible que los medios de comunicación tradicionales para mantener control . Las protestas no se llevan a cabo sólo en Caracas , el país entero está en contra el chavismo . Líderes de la oposición han convocado a una manifestación de mañana , que es probable que se convierta en cientos de miles de personas en todo el país a las calles para apoyar a los estudiantes y protestas para denunciar las muertes, heridos , torturas y la situación económica horrible.

La mejor manera de mantenerse al día con lo que está pasando es a través de Twitter. Me puedes seguir a @ alekboyd y otros bloggers y colegas para obtener la última . En esta hora grave de lo que necesitamos y esperamos de los demócratas de todo el mundo es la solidaridad , y ayuda a superar la censura por un retweet noticias que salen de nuestro país
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