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Venezuela governor escapes prison
BBC News ^ | Monday, 2 April 2007

Posted on 04/02/2007 10:59:11 AM PDT by mutantcoil

Eduardo Lapi, former governor Yaracuy state - and prominent opponent of President Hugo Chavez - had been in detention since May last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: venezuela
Barbra Walters left these folks out of her interview a few of weeks ago.
1 posted on 04/02/2007 10:59:11 AM PDT by mutantcoil
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To: mutantcoil

Hopefully he'll be giving interviews outside of the country soon.


2 posted on 04/02/2007 11:01:50 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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Interpol and immigration authorities were on alert in case Mr Lapi tried to flee the country, the government said.

Interpol?
3 posted on 04/02/2007 11:02:52 AM PDT by Dallas59 (AL GORE STALKED ME ON 2/25/2007!)
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Interpol?

Yes, the SS related organization formerly run by Reinhard Heydrich, then Kaltenbruner, which shared office space with the SD. I think the last SS guy to run the organization retired from it in the early 1970s.

4 posted on 04/02/2007 11:12:38 AM PDT by PAR35
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...but, but, but, Chavez is a great humanitarian! His prisons are better than middle class existance in the United States! This story has to be made up...

(In my country we flee tyranny. In the United States liberals demonstrate to live under it. What a country...)


5 posted on 04/02/2007 11:18:26 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: mutantcoil
Another Chavez opponent - Carlos Ortega - escaped from a military jail near the capital, Caracas, in August 2006.

At least Venezuela doesn't have a Fort Macey Park.

6 posted on 04/02/2007 11:23:53 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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Macey = Marcy


7 posted on 04/02/2007 11:24:19 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: mutantcoil; FairOpinion; grjr21; CitadelArmyJag; redwhit; americanbychoice3; Fiddlstix; GWB00; ...
Latin America pinglist.

Look at the link to get on or off the pinglist.

8 posted on 04/02/2007 11:50:09 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: PAR35
Yes, the SS related organization formerly run by Reinhard Heydrich, then Kaltenbruner, which shared office space with the SD. I think the last SS guy to run the organization retired from it in the early 1970s.

To be fair, Interpol existed before the Nazis in Austria, and then was taken over by them in the Anschluss. Your first two were Nazi-era people. But the last guy, Dickopf (can't forget that name, it's "dick head" if you mix languages), was a strange one. He was from the Gestapo (not SS), yet in the postwar years he somehow managed to convince everybody he was never pro-Nazi, as he was a double-agent during the war. He formed the German version of the FBI, staffing it with a lot of Nazis and SS members, then went off to run Interpol for four years.

Interpol wasn't run by Nazis between the WWII years and Dickopf, or since then.

9 posted on 04/02/2007 11:55:10 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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Now, class, can we all say "Agency???"


10 posted on 04/02/2007 12:21:52 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: mutantcoil

I think this story is horse crap. Hugo has already killed this man and it is just a convenient cover up story for when they "find" him dead.


11 posted on 04/02/2007 2:10:42 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked)
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