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Viewing cable 08SAOPAULO288, MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08SAOPAULO288 2008-06-09 12:23 2011-07-11 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Consulate Sao Paulo 
VZCZCXYZ0002
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSO #0288 1611223
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 091223Z JUN 08
FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8280
INFO RHEHNSC/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 9411
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO PRIORITY 8747
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC 3107
 
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000288 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD 
 
DEPT PASS USTR 
 
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ' 
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE 
 
Chavez' Police State 
 
Center-right O Estado de S.Paulo (6/9) states: "Hugo Chavez has 
enacted a national security law which...if fully carried out...will 
turn Venezuela...into a nation of fearful snitches.... It 
establishes that...everyone and everything constitute a means of 
support to intelligence and counter-intelligence activities. Those 
who do not cooperate will be committing a crime.... The law is 
purposefully written in a vague manner to allow any working 
journalist to be sent to jail under accusation of spying or any 
other charge the authorities see fit.... It puts an end to due 
process of law.... The minister...in charge of running the political 
police said it was written to fight 
'U.S. interference.'... The enactment of this law is one more stage 
in the process of turning Venezuela into a totalitarian State. It is 
an outright violation of the OAS' Democratic Charter. Its adoption 
makes Venezuela irrecoverably incompatible with the principles of 
Mercosul as established in its Democracy Clause." 
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