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Where are the AK-103 Assault Rifles?
President Hugo Chavez purchased 100,000 Russian-made AK-103/104 assault rifles in 2006. These weapons, which are capable of blasting cement cinder blocks to sand and pebbles at distances of up to 1,000 meters, were transported to Venezuela by sea in several shipments.
The first shipment to arrive in Venezuela totaled approximately 30,000 assault weapons that were unloaded at the Port of La Guaira under the direct supervision of Venezuelan Army and National Guard officers.
However, by the time that first shipment “cleared” customs at least 3,000 AK-103/104’s had disappeared. Where are those missing assault rifles today?
Caracas Gringo’s sources in the Bolivarian military establishment claim that the Chavez regime secretly supplied thousands of Russian assault rifles to radical groups like the Tupamaros, Carapaicas, etc.
During the 11-plus years that Chavez has been in power, these radical groups reportedly have recruited and trained thousands of new members who have been positioned strategically in clandestine cells across the Greater Caracas Area, and in other cities throughout the country including Merida, Valencia, Barinas, San Carlos, Puerto La Cruz/Barcelona, Maracaibo, etc.
But the largest concentrations of clandestine militants remain in Caracas, which Chavez is determined to hold at any cost if there is ever a popular uprising against his criminal Bolivarian regime.
Last year, Public Works and Housing Minister Diosdado Cabello publicly announced plans to build dozens of new housing developments throughout Caracas where members of the Bolivarian civilian militia and their families would live.
At least one of these Bolivarian fire bases – for that is what they are – is located in Chacao, specifically in the popular market that was expropriated over a year ago.
A second Bolivarian fire base reportedly would be located near the Santa Fe urbanization next to the highway that leads to Prados del Este/La Trinidad/ El Hatillo.
There are also Tupamaros deployed in various parts of the Petare mega-slum at the eastern edge of Caracas.
Meanwhile, Colombian news media, citing Colombian military intelligence sources, reported recently that Venezuelan urban militant groups aligned ideologically and tactically with the Chavez regime have direct ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which operate in Venezuela with the Chavez regime’s official support. FARC members with experience in urban guerrilla conflict reportedly have been training Tupamaros, Carapaicas and other criminal militant groups since at least 2002.
Given very recent threats by Chavez that he will “erase” his opponents at the slightest provocation, and columns by Marciano (aka Jose Vicente Rangel) saying that the time is nigh for a 21st Century Bolivarian repetition of the mass slaughter perpetrated in Venezuela’s 19th Century civil conflicts by the sociopath Boves, it’s not much of a stretch to imagine “rivers of blood” in the streets of Venezuelan cities.
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Cuban blood for Venezuelan blood
President Hugo Chavez warned in the past week that there is no middle ground anymore in Venezuela. Everyone must choose sides, and there is no going back for anyone who chooses the wrong side. There are only two sides: with or against Chavez.
Chavez has drawn a line in the sand and he is not bluffing. Chavez is determined to remain in power permanently, and he does not care who or what he must kill or destroy to achieve his all-consuming ambition to be master of Venezuela for the rest of his natural life.
This is very bad news for Venezuela, but it is, potentially, even worse news for thousands of Cubans currently in Venezuela on various official “missions.”
There are, roughly, two categories of Cubans officially working in Venezuela. One category consists of physicians, sports trainers, engineers and others engaged in activities which are not related to any intelligence, security or military functions. The second category includes Cubans assigned to military, intelligence and other security-related functions.
This second category of Cuban “advisors” is increasingly visible inside Fort Tiuna in Caracas, at the Defense Ministry and within the recently created Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SINB), whose titular director is General Hugo Carvajal.
It’s impossible to say with any precision how many Cubans are in Venezuela on security-related missions, and how many are engaged in missions which are unrelated to security. But overall, based on official admissions over the past 18 months, it’s probably accurate to say that there could be at least 40,000 Cubans in Venezuela on official missions of one sort or another.
President Chavez frequently boasts that he has full control over Venezuela’s armed forces. The Bolivarian FAN are totally committed to the revolution, he likes to brag. And just to make sure this is so, Carvajal’s SINB and Cuban intelligence officials are constantly testing the waters within the military establishment, fishing for anything that smells like dissent.
But active-duty military officers and professional personnel who oppose the Chavez regime’s wholesale Cubanization of the Venezuelan Republic founded by Simon Bolivar are not fools. They keep their mouths shut, discharge their duties professionally, outwardly demonstrate in all ways their loyalty to the government, and avoid being entrapped in the countless snares the regime has seeded within the armed forces. And they also quietly observe the systematic treason being committed by President Chavez, whose entire adult life has been committed to treachery and betrayal of the Venezuelan people and Venezuelan democracy.
There already are hundreds of Cuban military personnel who have been “assimilated” unofficially into Venezuela’s armed forces. Everyone in the FANB knows who they are, and everyone also knows precisely where they are located. This is something that President Chavez, and senior regime thugs like Diosdado Cabello, Jose Vicente Rangel and others should always keep in mind.
Why? Because if Chavez attempts to carry out his escalating threats to erase anyone who stands in his way, many Cuban nationals in Venezuela on military, intelligence and other security missions will be clipped. “We know who they are and where they are, and if Chavez uses these Cubans to repress Venezuelans we are going to take down the Cubans,” a Venezuelan military source tells Caracas Gringo. In effect, if Chavez spills innocent Venezuelan blood, Cuban military personnel in Venezuela will pay with their lives.
The Castro regime is sufficiently concerned about the very real and growing threat to Cubans in Venezuela on official missions that it dispatched Ramiro Valdes to assess the situation on the ground, in person.