Party: Venezuelan Opposition Leader In Hiding

[EFerrari]

Party: Venezuelan Opposition Leader In Hiding


CARACAS (AFP)--Venezuela's top opposition leader, Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales, will remain in hiding until he can defend himself properly against corruption charges, his party said Tuesday.

"If he turns himself in, he wouldn't be surrendering to the justice system, but to (President) Hugo Chavez, who is persecuting him," Omar Barboza, president of the Un Nuevo Tiempo Party (UNT), told a press briefing in Caracas.

Barboza said that in October, Chavez accused Rosales of trying to assassinate him and vowed to put his challenger in the 2006 election behind bars.

One of the most outspoken critics of Chavez, Rosales ran afoul of the leftist president after he was linked to an attempted coup against the president in 2002. Since his election last year as mayor of Maracaibo, he has been a thorn in Chavez's side.

This month, the attorney general's office charged Rosales with graft during his 2002-2004 tenure as governor of Zulia state, and asked for an arrest warrant, which has yet to be granted by a court.

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Can anyone explain to me why this man was caught meeting with four of the judges likely to hear his case in Zulia if he isn't a corrupt, guilty bastard? They were playing poker, maybe?!

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thanks for the information on this criminal. The fact he felt he could get by with this shows

he doesn't think there's anyone who could stop him. He has been an unchecked power there way too long.

Can't wait for the truth about Manuel Rosales to be exposed in ways people can no longer deny it.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Well, the Miami mafia had better get the posh condo ready, and wash and wax

the Jaguars in the driveway, and take donations (or just hit up U.S. taxpayers) to support their new "star."

:puke: