Reply #3: Venezuala: New Owner of Sequoia Voting Machines Denied VISA [View All]

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OK, so let's be clear on this. This guy runs the company that has about 30% of the US voting machine market. Sequoia used to be an English comopany and now it is owned by folks in Venezuela who can't even get a visa. I wonder if there is a trade in the making. Let's see, what does this executive have to trade with the US to get in the country?

US Embassy in Venezuela revokes visa of Smartmatic owner

http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200510160629

From | Descifrado

16.10.05 | Antonio Mujica, CEO of Smartmatic, got very upset Friday morning whilst trying to renew his US tourist visa. The entrepreneur waited a good while before being called by a US Embassy's consular official, who informed him that his visa had not been approved. Mujica, very crossed, requested, in English, explanations as to the reasons for it. He argued that he was legal, that he had an important company in the USA and that he had to travel with urgency to that country.

The American Consul's rejection was categoric as a very disturbed Mujica left the embassy without uttering any words in Spanish or English.