Plan to sabotage Venezuelan amendment released

“Pitiyankees on the nude” is the name given by Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez Frías to the documentary carried out by Pedro Carvajalino, a journalist from the local television channel Avila TV, in which is shown up an e-mail sent by Alberto Federico Ravell, president of Globovision private TV station, to call a meeting in Puerto Rico along with Venezuelan opposition leaders and foreign advisors to plan actions against Venezuela's constitutional amendment.

Extracts of a published text reads “Our friend at the Embassy will leave the previous day. The group of advisers has been working very hard these days and they will present a strategic campaign with ideas for advertisements, events and speeches. I have been feeding them with information and researches; they have exchanged ideas with the big-league advisers in the United States, and I think we can have everything ready to face the amendment. The only thing we have to talk is about the costs that, even when those are low, around three million dollars for what is going on, we have to share it between of all of us. I suggest you to meet on Monday Jan 05 to see all the details and explain everything better.”

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez broadcast the audiovisual material in which Ravell also charges verbally the young journalist, threatening him repeatedly. During his arrival to the country, the president of the above mentioned private media appears together with the leaders of the right-wing political parties Un Nuevo Tiempo (A New Era), Omar Barboza; Primero Justicia (Justice First), Julio Borges; and COPEI, Jose Ignacio Planas.

President Chávez affirmed that the journalist Pedro Carvajalino is being threatened. “He is being threatened; these are fascist people. This man that offers knocks and insults the journalist is one of the empire's pawn, who worked in Miraflores (the Presidential Palace), was president of (the state owned) Venezolana de Television and outraged journalists,” he remarked.

“Those who are with this fascist people, vote No, but we are going for the Homeland, Now, I challenge these barefaced people to say what they were doing in Puerto Rico. We are investigating details, US embassy to Caracas, millions of dollars, political leaders raising (dictator Pedro) Carmona's hand. Those who want that people to not rule Venezuela, those who want Homeland for their children, come with me.”