Saturday, June 12, 2010

Owner of TV Channel Critical of Hugo Chavez Ordered Arrested in Venezuela

From FreeThinker at Weasel Zippers


Oliver Stone and Sean Penn were unavailable for comment. Comrade Obama smiled when he heard the good news,

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)Venezuelan authorities issued an arrest warrant Friday for the owner of a television channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez.

Intelligence agents arrived at a home owned by Guillermo Zuloaga seeking to arrest him and one of his sons Friday night, but their whereabouts were unknown, defense lawyer Perla Jaimes said.

Zuloaga is president and majority shareholder of Globovision, the country’s only remaining channel on the airwaves that is stridently opposed to Chavez.

A court issued the warrant for the businessman and his son, also named Guillermo, citing accusations of illegally keeping 24 new Toyota sport-utility vehicles stored at a home owned by Zuloaga, Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. Zuloaga and his son are charged with usury and conspiracy.
Usury? That's an interesting charge. Sounds Medieval, doesn't it?

1 comment:

cjk said...

Don't anybody imagine for even a nano-second here that our own home grown lefties wouldn't do the same and much worse if they could.