Friday, August 18, 2017

Venezuelan Intensifies Its Crackdown On Opponents



Bloomberg: Venezuela's Maduro Regime Steps Up Crackdown on Dissidents

* Secret police raid home of former public prosecutor Ortega
* Constituent assembly orders investigation of opposition heads

Venezuela’s government is intensifying its crackdown on critics of President Nicolas Maduro, ordering the detention of the husband of former Public Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz and separate investigations of prominent opposition leaders.

Ortega said in a post on her Twitter account that secret police were raiding the family’s home in Caracas. The Supreme Court later ordered the arrest of her lawmaker husband, German Ferrer, accusing him of leading an extortion ring out of the prosecutor’s office.

“It’s revenge for fighting against the totalitarianism that exists in Venezuela,” she wrote on Twitter, blaming the raid on Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, a high-ranking socialist party official who brought the suit against her husband. Ortega had been the highest-ranking member of Maduro’s administration to break ranks with the government before she was deposed this month by a newly convened legislative super body, the constituyente. She has since fled and gone into hiding.

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WNU Editor: This is only going to get more intense. Unfortunately .... this is not going to solve Venezuela's problems of limited food, limited medicines, and hyper-inflation. On the contrary, it is only going to make it worse.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I thought things were going to get better.

Some communist said he was going to stand with his brothers. He is standing in Italy, so I don't know how that is going to work.

Also I wonder if actor & director(?) Danny Glover is going to stand with Maduro. He took a cool 27 million dollars for a movie he never made.

Will Danny glover give the money back?

Bert Bert said...

If the economy wasn't bad, this might work to silence visible acts of dissent. In this case I think it will fan the flames. I would imagine most people consider the protests to be legitimate, and coming down on these people is just going to create more ill will towards the government.

Jac said...

Imagine just one second if Trumps was doing that...all the Left and the World would be effervescent.
Condemning the extreme American right wing is fair, but I don't ear anything from the nice left protester against Maduro. Why?