How much money did Chavez illegally funnel into Argentina before he got caught? And how unimportant is this to the leftist media? No major news network has picked up this story. So Chavez meddled and may have illegally influenced the elections of a sovereign country, who cares? At the same time Miami is swarming with Venezuelan agents flashing Chavez money, not to mention Cuban agents….Is Chavez morphing into the Saddam of Latin America? A trouble maker with a big mouth..mpress

Update: Charged with failing to register with the U.S. as an agent of a foreign power are Venezuelan citizens Moises Roman Majonica, 36; Franklin Duran, 40; and Carlos Kauffmann, 35; and Uruguayan citizen Rodolfo Wanseele, 40. All will remain in custody pending a bail hearing Monday, with pleas set to be entered on Dec. 28.

If convicted, the men each face up to 10 years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines.A fifth man is still being sought, but it is not the man who brought the suitcase, Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson.A spokesman said the Argentine president’s office had no information about the charges in Miami.”We don’t have the slightest idea. We’re going to look into it,” said an official at the office who asked not to be identified.There was no immediate comment from the Venezuelan government, which has previously denied any link to Antonini. Federal prosecutors dropped a bombshell in a federal courtroom in Miami on Wednesday, alleging for the first time that the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez secretly tried to funnel nearly $1 million in cash to the presidential campaign of newly elected Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

The accusation came during a hasty hearing for four foreign nationals — including two wealthy South Florida Venezuelans. Each is charged with being unregistered foreign agents for the Venezuelan government.

Their mission from the Chávez government, prosecutors say: to hush up a local Venezuelan man who was caught in August with a suitcase full of campaign cash as he arrived at a Buenos Aires airport with a high-ranking Argentine official. They pressured him not to reveal the source of the cash or its recipient.

”The money was meant for the campaign of Cristina Kirchner,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Mulvihill told U.S. Magistrate Robert Dube. “These defendants were instructed to keep the role of Venezuela in the matter quiet.”

Source: MH

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