For the second time in one week the President of the Supreme Court has said that there are no untouchables in Venezuela. He first said it in reference to the persecution of the Sumate leaders and reiterated it again on Thursday in reference to reporter Napoleon Bravo who on live radio compared the Supreme Court to a brothel. I wrote a few days ago that it was rather curious that all of the cases that are being handled with efficiency are against opposition members, but the same does not happen with cases against Government members such as those accused of corruption, clear violation of rights of other or of the law. I was going to write again about this, but this Editorial by Tal Cual Editor Teodoro Petkoff expresses some of my feelings very clearly:
Iván Rincón, President of the Supreme Court has declared that in Venezuela there are no “untouchables” referring to the possibility that any person, no matter his or her rank, can be brought to justice if it commits a crime. Healthy and good. In application of this doctrine, then, the Supreme Court has accused of defamation reporter Napoleón Bravo, because, a little over two months ago, he had supposedly compared the highest court to a brothel. Now the whole country awaits the next step by the integral Justice Rincón, true incarnation of public justice and civil courage, which should be to accuse of defamation citizen Hugo Chávez Frías who affirmed in certain occasion that the Justices that absolved the military officers of April 11th. “Had no morals” and that they “had screwed up” using the word shit to express it. Moreover, as if this was not enough, he accused them of being professional negotiators that are “always getting drunk in the bars of Caracas”. On top of that, he ordered his followers to launch an assault on the Supreme Court. Next to this Napoleon could pass for Hans Christian Andersen. But I am sure that Ivan Rincon, Cabrerita (another Justice of the Constitutional Hall) and the other leaders of Justice that work at the Supreme Court will have no qualm to charge the President.
Here, it was said by the wise maracucho jurists, nobody is untouchable. We can only hope that it does not take place on April Fool’s day.
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