Posted on 12/31/2016 9:28:37 AM PST by Olog-hai
Venezuelas government has freed a former presidential candidate and several student activists who were jailed during anti-government protests in 2014.
Former opposition candidate Manuel Rosales was imprisoned in October 2015 on charges of illicit enrichment upon returning to Venezuela after six years of exile in Peru. A former governor of Zulia state who ran for president in 2006, he was released before dawn Saturday along with five other activists who opposition groups consider to be political prisoners.
The releases come as a two-month-old, Vatican-mediated attempt at dialogue to ease tensions stemming from the countrys deep economic and political crisis hangs by a thread over the failure by unpopular President Nicolás Maduro to cede ground to opponents seeking his removal.
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There’s got to be a nefarious reason behind the releases.
Wonder what it is.
The released prisoners would do well to go invisible. Chances of self-inflicted wounds to the back of the head are very high.
No money to pay the guards.
No food to feed the prisoners....
Venezuela: China’s Crown Jewel in the Atlantic.
I wonder if a country’s ever been so downtrodden (besides during civil war) where they can’t even secure prisoners anymore.
Also one of the biggest reminders of the neglect and demise of the Monroe Doctrine.
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