E-MAIL THIS LINK
To: 

Venezuela Opposition Leader Flees to Peru
April 21 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan opposition leader and Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales, who was scheduled to appear in court yesterday on corruption charges, has left the country and is seeking political asylum in Peru.
We saw this one coming. I'm surprised he went to Peru and not either Colombia or Panama.
The mayor is being "politically persecuted," said his wife, Eveling Rosales, in comments broadcast by CNN's Spanish- language channel. Manuel Rosales, 56, lost the 2006 presidential election to President Hugo Chavez.

"The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized," Leopoldo Lopez, a member of Rosales's Un Nuevo Tiempo party and former mayor of the Caracas borough of Chacao, said in a telephone interview. "This is retaliation and selective repression."
Posted by: Unutle Brown8234 2009-04-22
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=268147