The Bush Administration
is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
By LARRY BIRNS and
MICHAEL LETTIERI, CounterPunch.org, 5/10/06
Washington is no stranger to flimsy
pretexts when it comes to justifying its ill-conceived, and at
times illicit, Latin American initiatives. The contra
epoch, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, Ollie
North, former U.S. ambassador John Negroponte’s skullduggery
in Honduras, and countless acts of chicanery aimed at Havana,
Santiago, Grenada and Guatemala come to mind. [read more]