Posted on 09/16/2005 8:39:33 AM PDT by alekboyd
London 15.09.05 | The existence of systematic political prosecution in Venezuela, as established in article 7 of the Rome Statute, has been been argued for some time now. Apologists of Hugo Chavez maintain that it is nonsense, just another cry wolf allegation against the 'democratically elected' leader. Many people have complained about the existence of a list, compiled by chavista assemblyman Luis Tascon with a group of collaborators, that is widely utilised by government officials at all institutional levels to deny passports, contracts, IDs, employments, benefits, etc. The creation of said database was ordered by Hugo Chavez himself, who in a memo dated January 30th 2004 and addressed to former National Electoral Council's director Francisco Carrasquero, stated...
(Excerpt) Read more at vcrisis.com ...
Political persecution works here as well.
Paging Amnesty International, hello Amnesty International, can you drag yourselves away from Guantanamo for a second? It seems we have a crisis in Venezuala. Hello?
But so what? Are we - the US - supposed to do anything about it. It's Venezuela's problem, not ours.
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