Post for pescao.London Hands off Venezuela campaign organizer Charley Allan writes: Until Thursday, November 18, Venezuelans had been enjoying a period of relative calm. The re-affirmation of President Hugo Chavez in the recall referendum and his government's landslide victory in recent regional voting had persuaded most of the opposition to simply wait for the 2006 general elections.
Then came the assassination of Danilo Anderson.
The 38-year old State Prosecutor was blown up in his car by two attached bombs with remote control detonation, after attending a graduate class at the Bolivarian University. Two suspects in the murder were killed in shootouts with police, during the following week, and two others have been arrested.
Danilo Anderson was leading the case against the "golpistas" (the coup-plotters who had orchestrated the kidnapping of Chavez and the overthrow of his democratic government in April 2002) and was only days away from formally presenting his case, having just issued over 400 subpoenas.
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