Catholic Church raided by security forces

October 5, 2003

 


Lost in the noise over the Globovision affair on Friday was the case of the Catholic Church in Barquisimeto which was searched on Friday by more than fifty security and military personnel in a raid that was jointly performed by the Intelligence police, the National Guard and regional police. It all started as a false alarm that an explosive device had been placed at the church but somehow became an all out raid. It was the police that said they had a call on the bomb and they proceed to search the church, including all of the files. The cops said they had found “subversive material”, by this they mean pamphlets by a community group calling for blocking of the media bill that the Chavez administration wants approved. Where are the People’s Ombudsman and the Attorney general? Nobody knows…..

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