Posted on 09/18/2014 6:42:07 PM PDT by bd476
CARACAS, Venezuela—President Nicolás Maduro said he ordered the prosecution of doctors who had alerted the public to the recent deaths of nine people in a public hospital from an unidentified but possibly infectious disease.
"They wanted to impose a scheme of alarm, of psychological terrorism," Mr. Maduro said Wednesday in a speech broadcast on TV. "There is no other name for this, it's terrorism."
He said he had spoken with Attorney General Luisa Ortega "so that our organs of justice work with severity, with all the firmness and severity that the law permits. You have to punish these people."
Mr. Maduro's warnings come after doctors said publicly said that they suspected a possible outbreak of Chikungunya disease, which is carried by mosquitoes from victim to victim, in the city of Maracay just west of here. Mr. Maduro's government, which has lost support amid an economic crisis and soaring crime, hasn't said what it believes caused the deaths.
From Aug. 30 until Sunday, nine people—four of them children—died at the large Central Hospital of Maracay, medical personnel in the city said. Doctors and the family of the last victim, Franklin Fossi, 41, a truck driver who died on Sunday, said he and the other victims suffered from fevers, blisters on their skin and severe joint pain.
"We don't know what we are confronting," Angel Sarmiento, the president of the Medical College of Aragua state, told reporters last week.
Dr. Sarmiento was singled out by the president for his comments about the deaths. The doctor couldn't be reached for comment.
Dr. Douglas Natera, president of Venezuela's medical federation, which represents doctors, said the opaque nature of Mr. Maduro's government and its criticism of the medical establishment is generating anxiety in Maracay, where many people have gone to neighborhood clinics complaining of symptoms...
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Like Lois Griffin said about “Places that God cares about...”, I give you this:
Yup.
Maduro is the end game of the State Uber Alles: the biggest Thug in town, muscling his way to the top.
The very guy the 2nd Amendment was written for.
To get rid of him.
Yet another case of Wetback Fever.
The headline is misleading, Maduro was not comparing the disease outbreak to terrorism, rather he wanted the doctors who reported the risks to be prosecuted. An authoritarian dictatorship at it’s finest, look to the white house to see the next one..
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