Venezuelan Justice reached a new low today, when lawyer Tulio Alvarez was sentenced to two years and there months in jail for defamation against a Government official, in this case, former President of the National Assembly William Lara.
What makes the case particularly interesting and intimidating is that Alvarez’s crime was to represent the workers of the National Assembly in a lawsuit against Lara, claiming that he owed them money and that their funds were used for something else. Thus, this represents a new low in which rather than intimidating people, they are intimidating lawyers so that they do not represent people in cases against Government officials!
Of course, Alvarez’ true crime was to act against the Government in many Constitutional and other cases, the last one being the substantiation of the case for fraud in the recall referendum.
The Devil's Excrement 
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