Posted on 04/20/2009 12:36:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CARACAS, Venezuela – A leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez has decided to seek political asylum abroad rather than face a corruption charge in a trial he says would be stacked against him, an ally said Monday.
Opposition leader Manuel Rosales, who went into hiding three weeks ago, decided not to appear in court Monday because the case against him is being used for "political persecution," said Omar Barboza, who heads Rosales' political party.
"He won't present himself before a court that's been turned into a political tool," Barboza told reporters. "When there's a state of law in Venezuela, Manuel Rosales will then go before the courts, but until then he will be judged by the Venezuelan people."
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He better not come here. The FBI, Homeland Security and the White House will send him back in chains.
He should’ve looked when Bush was still in office if he wanted to come here. 0 won’t let him in.
—bflr—
He’d better not seek asylum here. 0bama would chop him into little pieces and send him back to Hugo, one slice at a time.
So Hugo Chavez is doing to his opposition what the radical leftwing in America want to do to former Bush administration officials.
Handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency press office showing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) giving the book 'The Open Viens of Latin America', by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, to US President Barack Obama in a multilateral meeting during the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain on April 18, 2009. (AFP/HO/File)
Handing him the ‘Socialism for DUMMIES’ handbook?
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