Petkoff on Carlos Melo, from today’s Tal Cual:
What has been done to Carlos Melo is a major despicable act.
To detain him and send him to the sinister jail of El Rodeo is nothing but pure revenge.
What the regime does not forgive Carlos is his early dissension. How quickly he perceived the Chavista fraud. He was on of the first ones to abandon, disenchanted, the boat in which, with great expectations, he had embarked himself in. He was one of those that allowed himself to be seduced by the supposedly revolutionary rhetoric of Chávez and accompanied him not only in his electoral cruise but also before, in his conspiratorial movements. It did not take him long in realize that he had been ripped off and transformed himself in critic and opposer, but from the left, where he has always been. Carlos, everyone knows it, is a man of action. A hard worker that never tires, dedicated, daring and willing to take risks, a tough one, if you want. What the Chavismo does not forgive him for is that Carlos is one of the living proofs that among the needy disenchantment is growing. He is one of the organizers of that disenchantment, acting in a stage that the Chavismo considers its own closed space, that of the poor barrios of the capital.
That is why there is bad blood with him. This small reporter wants to add himself to the campaign for the freedom of Carlos Melo.
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