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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-10 05:51 PM
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Criticism of Chávez Is Stifled by Arrests
LOS TEQUES, Venezuela — When Judge María Lourdes Afiuni issued a ruling in December that irked President Hugo Chávez, he did little to contain his outrage. The president, contending on national television that she would have been put before a firing squad in earlier times, sent his secret intelligence police to arrest her.

Then the agents took her to the overcrowded women’s prison in this city of slums near Caracas. They put her in a cell near more than 20 inmates whom Judge Afiuni had sentenced on charges like murder and drug smuggling.

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One respite from her life in jail, she said, came when the rehearsal sounds from a prison orchestra of inmates traveled past the bars of her cell. She said its rendition of Vivaldi could move her close to tears. “Just when I cannot stand it any longer here,” she said, “the music lets me escape from reality a little and remember that this nightmare will end someday.”


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Ha Ha Ha, rot in jail you fascist!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/world/americas/04venez.html?pagewanted=print
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Dave From Canada Donating Member (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 10:15 AM
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1. If there was any doubt as to Chavez being a dictator, this story removes it completely. Shame on
all who support this evil man.
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