Ok, Ok.      I know that this article from the Miami Herald doesn't
identify either the doctor, nor the hospital, where the torture maestro
received his medical treatment.      That is, not directly.      But it
is a save guess that it is Houston's very own, M. D. Anderson.     But
why?

Because this is the favored hospital of the Bush Klan, that's why.
In all their myriad travels around the world on behalf of the government
and the CIA, they never fail to inform their friends about the excellent
quality of medical care available in their home state of Texas.

Workers (servants) get to enter from a parking lot some distance away
from this Grand Palace of Care.     It's a walk past the Ronald McDonald
House, and then an entrance into America's elite cancer treatment
center.      But keeping in the internationalst spirit of neo-liberal
globalization, a sizable chunk of patients are not upper class
Americans.      They are upper class international associates insead!

The in-house media comes on channel, in 5 different languages !     And
the in-house press likes to front page their patron saints, most
especially Barbara and George.      This is a treatment center that
seems especially popular with the Arab Emirate and Saudi sheiks.
But plenty of patients can also be found, from places like Argentina,
India, Mexico and Peru.

I won't go into too much detail, but the facility is considerably more
plush and CLEAN, than that in your neighborhood, Tex.      One could
almost describe the facility as palatial.     Though, fortress-like also
comes to mind, since a homey setting must be kept while the elite get
their care.

In case of a medical problem arising from the use of DU weaponry in your
own little neck of the global woods, think M.D. Anderson, Cancer
Treatment Center.

Tony Abdo

P.S.  Note the $1,500 bail.    Pretty steep for a major drug trafficker
and assassin.      They must have wanted to keep him in, real bad.
But then he is.... a sick man.      It's a case of the FBI's get tough
on crime strategy, now tempered by 'compassionate conservatism'.
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Accused aide of Peru spy master held in Miami
BY MARIKA LYNCH
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Peru's second-most-wanted man wasn't difficult to find in South Florida.
Víctor Alberto Venero Garrido -- a suspected arms dealer accused of
skimming more than $100 million from a government pension fund -- had
opened a $15 million bank account in his own name.

Venero, an associate of Peruvian spy master Vladimiro Montesinos whose
own scandal brought down the government of President Alberto Fujimori,
was arrested on public corruption and money laundering charges after he
tried to make a withdrawal at a Miami Citibank on Friday.

On Monday, he asked a federal magistrate to let him out on bond because
the stress was aggravating his rare form of lung and colon cancer. Jail
guards ridiculed him when he told them he was bleeding from his rectum
Sunday night, Venero told U.S. Magistrate Judge John J. O'Sullivan. A
hearing will be held Friday, when Venero's Texas doctor will testify
about his condition. He is being held at the Federal Detention Center in
downtown Miami.

His survival is important, Venero told the judge, because he has
undergone an experimental treatment that can benefit others.

``The research will save other lives,´´ Venero said.
MAINTAINS INNOCENCE
The 47-year-old maintained his innocence Monday, but neither he nor his
Miami lawyers, Walter Reynoso and Scott Srebnick, explained the origins
of his Miami fortune. Venero's Peruvian attorney, Luis Roy Freyre, said
his client has lived in the United States since 1998 when he began
cancer treatment. He told The Herald Venero's money came from his
construction and textile businesses back home.

The controversy surrounding Venero's past touched the country's highest
political official this weekend, when a report surfaced that Venero's
family had given $30,000 to interim President Valentín Paniagua to
cover costs for his congressional campaign. Paniagua went on national
television Sunday night to deny it and called the allegation by a
onetime Montesinos security guard ``an open and brazen conspiracy,´´
the Lima daily El Comercio reported.

SIGNIFICANT ARREST
Apart from that, Venero's arrest is significant because it will aid the
investigation into Montesinos, a top Fujimori advisor who left the
country after a video showed him apparently bribing a congressman, said
Gustavo Gorriti, a Peruvian journalist and author living in exile in
Panama. The U.S. government's help in his capture also was noteworthy,
Gorriti said, because Montesinos is known as a one-time CIA informant.

According to court documents released Monday, the Peruvian government,
which is seeking to extradite Venero, alleges he was Montesinos' most
trusted ``bagman´´ or ``strawman.´´ Venero allegedly used his
position as the ``de-facto´´ head of the country´s military and
police pension fund to pilfer millions he then used to buy apartment
complexes, hotels and buildings, the documents said. He would then sell
the assets back to the fund, at inflated prices.

Venero also helped Montesinos organize a scheme to sell substandard arms
from Belarus and other countries to the Peruvian military at excessive
prices, the documents said.

$15 MILLION ACCOUNT
The FBI was first alerted to Venero earlier this month when Venero's $15
million account showed up on a routine check of required bank reports,
said Frank Figliuzzi, assistant special agent in charge for the FBI in
Miami.

The Peruvian government officially charged him Jan. 19 and sent out a
request through Interpol for help in locating him three days later. The
FBI then tracked Venero to a house in Southwest Miami-Dade.

Fearing Venero was about to transfer the money to another bank, the
agency froze his assets Friday. The suspected arms dealer found out when
he tried to withdraw millions at 10 that morning.
He stayed at the downtown bank several hours, trying to figure out how
to get the money, Figliuzzi said. He finally left a few hours later, had
a drink at a hotel bar, then went home. About 11:30 that night, the
agency arrested him at home.

At first, the FBI believed Montesinos might be in tow. But the agency
has no information that the former head of Peru's intelligence agency is
in South Florida, Figliuzzi said.

The FBI does have information, however, that Venero has a handful of
other bank accounts around the country.

``There are many more millions involved in this case, and we are as I
speak becoming aware of more millions elsewhere,´´ Figliuzzi said.

This weekend's arrest was not Venero's first in South Florida,
Miami-Dade Police say. Venero has an assault and battery charge stemming
from a domestic violence incident the morning of July 16, documents
show.

He was arrested by Miami Beach Police at the Fontainebleau Hilton, 4441
Collins Ave., in room 1076. Booking records show he was released the
next day on $1,500 bond.

Herald staff writer Elaine de Valle, Herald translator Renato Pérez
and Rui Ferreira of El Nuevo Herald contributed to this report.