(In Spanish here)
As part of the evidence to prove that Franklin Duran was
acting as a foreign agent in the US, the Prosecutor will introduce as evidence
a Venezuelan Army credential that was on Duran, when he was detained in Miami.
Duran’s defense lawyer will call on a former Venezuelan official whose name is
Daisy Canizales, who will testify that such credentials are honorific and are
very common in Venezuela.
According to the same document introduced by the Defense neither
the Venezuelan Army nor the Venezuelan Intelligence Agency DISIP operate
outside Venezuela or run secret operations outside Venezuela.
Duran’s lawyer, Edward Shohat, wants to make the trial
appear to be a “spectacle trial” to make Hugo Chavez look bad and has gone as
far as asking possible members of the jury whether they sympathize with either
Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.
Last Thursday, the Prosecutor provided a picture as
evidence without specifying what it will use it for. All it did was to identify
the man in the picture as Tarek Al Aissami, shown here in another picture:
Who is Al Assiami, none other than the Vice-Minister for Citizen
Security of the Minister of Interior and
Justice, the Ministry in charge of intelligence and the police in
Venezuela.
It is unclear in what context his name will be used in the
Miami trial
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