Once more, the hearts of Venezuelans are bleeding, once more despite the
popular defeat of the US backed coup in April of 2002, after the victory
of the recall referendum. At approximately 10pm, November
19th a car bomb went off in the Chaguaramos district of Caracas, leaving
little remains of the body of Danilo Anderson, a State Prosecutor who was
currently involved in the prosecution of over 400 people accused of
plotting the coup of 2002 as well as the accepting large amounts of
funding from the US government sponsored organization, the National
Endowment for Democracy*.

Although the body was not positively identified until about 9am, November 20th, people began gathering around the morgue where
Anderson’s remains were undergoing an autopsy as well as outside the
Venezuelan Fiscalia in Caraccas immediatley after the news was announced. After the results of the autopsy were given out the casket was brought to the Fiscalia for the public to pay their final respects. Thousands had fearlessly gathered by mid-afternoon pouring out into the streets and filling Parque Carabobo in an emotional display of
the pain and outrage.

Although the exact source of the bomb has not yet been identified, this
event is resonating in Venezuela with a special fierce intensity due to
it's proximity to the genocide in Fallujah. There is much anger with the
government of the US and the people are calling for action of the people
of the US. With tears in their eyes and rage in their hearts, they asked
what are the people in the US doing about it? How could Bush win the
election? Are they sleeping, are they alive? Don’t you realize that the
rest of us are fighting for our lives? I started to respond by saying
that there are movements, there is much support, but I was quickly
reminded of it’s insufficiency. “You need a real a movement in the US”,
I was told, “a movement of the people, like the Tupamaros*, you need to
take the streets and rise up everyday until this stops because we are
dying.” ..
Let us make the connection to our struggle in the US to the struggle of
our Brother and Sisters of the world. The fight of life of the people in
Iraq, in Venezuela, in Colombia, in Cuba…in all of Pachamerica in all of
Pachamundo where Imperialism, neo-liberalism, and facism threatens to
terrorize the people, is connected and so we unite and take action. We
cannot sit down and watch our beautiful pachamama die one Iraqi child,
one Bolivarian Revolutionary at a time....

*The National Endowment for Democracy is a supposed “non-governmental
organization” which receives all of its funding from and is fully
responsible to the US congress. This organization claims to provide
financial support to organization which enhance democracy, but they are
know to be the financial supplement to the CIA. They participated in the
overthrow of the Sandinistas and have provided approximately $900,000 to
anti-Chavez groups in the last year. (Jone, Bart. NED in Venezuela. FIPF.
Znet. April 19th, 2004) (NED Website  http://www.ned.org/)

* Tupamaros , urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay, also known as the
National Liberation Army. Named for the Inca revolutionist, Tupac Amaru,
it became active in the early 1960s, distributing stolen food and money
among the poor in Montevideo.