Venezuela jittery with fear of counter-revolution and foreign intervention
Kiran Chaube
May 17, 2005

Venezuela as a nation is nervous about its future and the oil assets. The activities in the country manifest tension, nervousness and sporadic actions to defend itself against unknown future.

Venezuelan Defense Minister General Jorge Garcia Carneiro signed a contract on May 17 to buy 100,000 AK-103 assault rifles from Russia priced at $386.22 per rifle. The first 28,000 rifles will arrive in October 2005 and the remainder will arrive in two shipments of 36,000 rifles each in December 2005 and March 2006. The contract also includes a technology transfer to help Venezuela's military industries manufacture the weapon under license. Russian officials said this will be the first time any country besides Russia will make the AK-103.

Workers at Venezuela's state-owned aluminum smelter Aluminios del Carona S.A. (ALCASA) are receiving commando training to resist a future "counter-revolution," Reuters reported May 17. An internal company memorandum dated May 12 and signed by ALCASA President Carlos Lanz that contains instructions to workers requiring them to support ALCASA’s “political-military” strategy supports the report. A former Marxist guerrilla, Lanz participated in the 1976 abduction of U.S. citizen William Niehaus, who was a senior executive in Venezuela with Ohio-based glass manufacturer Owens Illinois.

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