Posted on 11/20/2006 3:49:31 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Caracas 20.11.06 | Much has been said over the years about political prosecution in Venezuela. Not many days ago Miguel wrote a post about discrimination and fascism, now I will give my impressions. For the most part of the last 6 weeks I have travelled around Venezuela. One aspect that caught my attention the first time I flew in Rosales' plane was DISIP officers -political police- waiting in the tarmac, digital camera in hand, ready to take pictures or film all arriving passengers. Upset by this clearly intimidatory tactic I asked one of them the other day why were they taking pictures and what use such photographs were given. He replied that the order from above was that all arriving passengers were to be photographed. His reply was pure bullshit; as we were leaving the tarmac a commercial flight landed but no passenger was hassled by DISIP's photographers. So I asked again and the guy said "only private flight's passengers need be identified."
On Friday Manuel Rosales was due to arrive in Maracay but instead air controllers ordered the plane to go to Valencia, therefore his appearance was delayed more than two hours as he had to travel by road from Valencia to Maracay at rush hour.
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The Chavez gang is getting worried.
They are probably also getting ready to drop the hammer.
When Chavez has stolen his second election, and charged Rosales and his campaign staff with treason, what then?
Its not a secret that Chavez is already "president for life". The question is what do Venezuelans plan to do about it? They must either have a plan "B", which they must be prepared to launch right after the theft of the 2006 election, or they had better get used to Chavez because he isn't leaving Miraflores by choice. There are no condos in Miami in Chavez' future, its all or nothing for him.
Yep. I rode private planes in Venezuela and never ran into creepy stuff like that. I think Chavez is moving hard left into totalitarianism. The Cubans are providing the training into the intimidation tactics.
It's true that Miami wouldn't be an option for El Commandante Pocito but it's a given that Madrid would roll out the welcome mat.
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