Attorney General requests detention of seven PDVSA managers

February 26, 2003

The Venezuelan Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez, asked a control judge to order the detention of seven PDVSA managers. The charge is that because of the strike in December services such as electricity (??) and gas were suspended. According to the lawyers of the mangers, this vioaltes their right to defend themselves since they have not been asked to declare prior to the charge. This is simply more repression by a Government that has done abosuletly nothing to find any of the assasins and shooters for 49 deaths and over 700 injured in marches during the last year. With this action, if accepted by the judge, the third most important leader of the opposition, Juan Fernandez of PDVSA, will also have an order to be detained. Who is next, more opposition or the media?


UPDATE: The Judge ordered the detention of the seven PDVSA managers. Is this a dictatorship or what?

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