Venezuelan editor: Attempt at seizure is a warning

[Bacchus39]

http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/05/19/venezuelan-editor-attempt-at-seizure-is-a-warning.shtml


For disclosing presumed agreement with Iran

"I have no doubts that this is due to information concerning an agreement to set up a base and allocated to the Iranian university to provide technical advice"

Rafael Poleo, the editor of Venezuelan daily newspaper El Nuevo País, told Efe on Thursday that an attempt at seizing the site which holds one of the newspaper's printshops is a "warning" for having released a presumed agreement with Iran to build a missile base.

Poleo reported that public servants of state agency FundaCaracas, together with police agents, showed up on Wednesday at the printing offices and notified that they would expropriate it. However, they did not produce a written court order.

"Call it a warning from the Venezuelan government, because we had been the only ones to report on the agreement. There are two possibilities: either it was an intimidating operation or they changed their minds because the public opinion strenuously reacted," the journalist residing in Miami reasoned.

[naaman fletcher]

1. Stalinist Chavistas at it again

Sad that people who are otherwise progressive support this crap.

[joshcryer]

2. It's typical, actually.

The entire socialist critique from the state-socialist side invariably ends up this way, invariably. Any centralization of power mandates authoritarian tendencies.