Chávez Denounces Separatist Plans in Venezuela

CARACAS, June 14.–– President Hugo Chávez warned today that the Venezuelan oligarchy is making efforts to revive separatist plans in the southwestern states of Zulia and Táchira, PL news agency reported.

"We are not going to allow them to turn Táchira, or Zulia, into a lair for paramilitary soldiers," said Chávez during the Aló, Presidente program, which was broadcasted from the La Bandera Primary Unit of Social Property, in Táchira.

Chávez also called on the governors to fulfill their duties and mentioned that the people, the Armed Forces and the Constitution would combat the separatist plans. He also denounced a campaign of certain mass media against the Bolivarian Armed Forces, in an attempt to divide it.

Chávez also said that more than a million Venezuelan youths had enrolled the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) after a process that began on May 8 and will end on Sunday.

JOINT ANSWER TO THE CRISIS

CARACAS, June 14.–– Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, said today that the current world crisis demands rigor, attention, knowledge, efforts and the joint search of solutions.

In his Sunday column Las Líneas the Chávez (Chávez´Lines), the president spoke of the recently concluded Petrocaribe Summit, held last Friday in Saint Kitts and Nevis, with the attendance of 18 heads of state and government.

About Petrocaribe he said that, "It is one of the new bases for integration, which will allow for building a modern system of economic relations in Latin America, and at the same time, it will raise the banners of Caribbean dignity and freedom higher and higher."