Reply #4: Mayor evicts "rebellious" military group from Caracas plaza [View All]

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Poor little golpista officers, evicted by the mayor who opposes Chavez. Can it be that the opposition is tired of golpista tricks?

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Caracas, Dec 8 (EFE).- The opposition mayor of a Caracas municipality on Monday evicted from a plaza a group of military officers who declared themselves in rebellion against the government and who with their supporters have maintained a "vigil" in the square for more than a year.

"What they have done with the platform is to destroy with the feet what was built by the hands," Gen. Nestor Gonzalez told Globovision television as he denounced the eviction, which took place in the pre-dawn hours.

Gonzalez said the police raid on Altamira Plaza was ordered by Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez, himself an opponent of President Hugo Chavez.
Lopez was forced to flee the plaza over the weekend after Chavez supporters hurled insults at the mayor and caused him minor injuries before proceeding to smear paint all over the speaking platform, which was subsequently cleaned up.

"The dismantling of the platform ... supports Saturday's savagery," said Gonzalez, the most prominent of the anti-Chavez officers who in October 2002 occupied the plaza on the capital's east side, declaring it "liberated territory." The government has accused several members of the dissident military group of being involved in recent bombings, charges the officers hotly deny.


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Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez converge on Plaza Altamira, a symbolic opposition stronghold, as they march to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the former paratrooper's first presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)