Venezuela

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Datum des Hearings: 21./22.07.2005

(...)The most dramatic State visit to China during the 1999 pre-hand-over of the Canal was made by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. In Beijing he emphasized to international reporters, “I have always been a Maoist.” He proclaimed, “Venezuela is lifting itself up just as China lifted itself up 50 years ago by the hand of Mao Tse-Tung, the Great Navigator.” During this visit, Chavez began signing a series of oil and political agreements that led to Venezuela purchasing Chinese military equipment within the year and the arrival of PLA military trainers in Caracas.

In 2002, following the failed civic effort in Venezuela to overthrow Hugo Chavez, American military trainers were withdrawn from Venezuela. Almost immediately, they were replaced by Spanish-speaking Special Forces trainers from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. And during the same period, Chinese Air Force trainers arrived in Venezuela as instructors for a new fleet of airplanes purchased from Beijing by Chavez. Venezuelan military officers, who opposed Chavez swinging the country into the Cuba-China axis, told of al Qaeda terrorists being moved into Venezuela – either through direct flights or transiting from Panama – and met at the airport by Chavez regime operatives and given new identifications before “disappearing” into the Venezuelan countryside.
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Ich vermute das basiert auf diesem Papier. Da keine Quellen angegeben sind, kann ich mir auch vorstellen, dass es sich um eine Übertreibung von "normalen" Ausbildern für geliefertes chinesisches Gerätes handelt.

Das ganze ist vermutlich eine Art "Workshop":
U.S.– CHINA COMMISSION HEARINGS
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Hearing on China’s Growing Global Influence: Objectives and Strategies

Da dieser Mr. Al Santoli ein unabhängiger Sachverständiger ist, sollte man die Sache nicht überbewerten.