Four Ministries will guide Intelligences                   El Comercio, Ecuador, June 12, 2009

The Regime wants the changes in the National Intelligence System to be like the work of a surgeon: precise and profound. The presidential decree creating the new Intelligence Secretariat will be ready in the next days. This will be the starting point for the Intelligence System, which is already planned out. One of the major changes, regarding the current situation, is that the National Direction of Intelligence of the National Security Council (Cosena) will dissapear. The major argument, according to Freddy Rivera, undersecretary of Government is that it did not work. “The corporatism of the Armed Forces was lost.”
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Military must report messages against the President
El Universal, Venezuela, June 12, 2009

By orders of the Chief of Staff of the Army, all military personnel in this outfit must “immediately notify” its superiors of any “offensive message, critique or analogy against the system of government of President Hugo Chávez,” which they receive by any way. Through a radiogram, with date May 12 of 2009, the director general of Intelligence of the Army, brigade General José Cristóbal Fuentes, gave the order, which was confirmed by the director of the NGO Citizen Control of Security and Defence, Rocío San Miguel.
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Pilots practice launch of missiles in Margarita
El Universal, Venezuela, June 12, 2009

About 130 servicemen from the National Armed Force, mostly Aviation component, arrived to Margarita Island to participate during the week in the Pereu-Geminis Operation, which seeks to train pilots in combat units in the launch of air to air missiles from VF5, F16 and Sukhoi-30 planes. The practice will take place in a restricted area, such as the air to air firing range, north of the island of Margarita. To that end, Sukhoi planes will operate from the Barcelona Air Base and the other two systems, the F5 and F16, from the island of Margarita.                more>>  

Peruvian Chancellor accuses Morales of inciting violence in the Peruvian Amazon
El Universal, Venezuela, June 16, 2009

Bolivian president, Evo Morales, “has been inciting violence” in the Peruvian Amazon, where there were 34 deaths including police and indigenous people, stated the Peruvian chancellor José García Belaúnde. This Tuesday, saying he had “no doubt” that it is so. “He has been promoting violence, I have no doubt” said the Peruvian chancellor to the Santiago Radio Cooperative. Asked if Morales is an enemy of Peru he stated: “If during three years president Morales has only attacked Peru, I can’t call him differently.”                                                           more>>  

Prepared by: Mariana Caramagna Natalia Herrera

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