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Chavez's main critic flees to Peru

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Isabel Guerra

Manuel Rosales, Venezuela's main opposition leader, is now in Peru after fleeing his homeland to escape a trial on corruption charges that he alleges are politically motivated.

He arrived in Lima as a tourist, a status that allows him to stay as long as 180 days in Peru, but has not yet formally requested asylum, according to Peru's Chancellor Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde.

Rosales, also mayor of the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo, had gone into hiding three weeks ago when corruption charges were filed, since Venezuelan officials are accusing him to illegally enrich himself as governor of Zulia state from 2002 to 2004.

However, Rosales denies the allegation claiming that Chavez is out to get him for political reasons.

"Since they haven't been able to take me off the political map by the electoral route, now they're using the power they have in all the movements of the public prosecutor," Rosales told CNN en Español last month.

One of Rosales' lawyers noted that Chavez had said publicly in October 2008 that he wanted the mayor in prison.

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# Rachel in Peru says :
21 April, 2009 [ 15:14 ]

Welcome to Peru. The food is better, but corruption is the same.

# jb says :
21 April, 2009 [ 20:36 ]

The truth is is refused to read the book that Chavez gave Obama.

# Oscar says :
23 April, 2009 [ 08:09 ]

Reading about this matter, I have seen commentaries in one of the most popular newspapers of Peru, and Suspect that many comentaries were not written by Peruvians, but "Chavistas" posing as Peruvians.

# Oscar says :
23 April, 2009 [ 08:09 ]

Reading about this matter, I have seen commentaries in one of the most popular newspapers of Peru, and Suspect that many comentaries were not written by Peruvians, but "Chavistas" posing as Peruvians.

# Oscar says :
23 April, 2009 [ 08:12 ]

the true,
criminal or not, this man come to our country to find the justice he clearly can't find in Venezuela.
Peruvian Justice maybe is not perfect but the final desicion is comming from a Judge and not from the president.

# Michelle says :
31 July, 2009 [ 19:15 ]

You are so right. Chavez has his gargoyles, which include many Cuban imports are all over the region. I think "Casa Alba" is just one of his exports. In Cuba they are known as the CDR's. They are what killed off the protests and opposition.

What is really sad is that in the US they are known as Acorn. http://spectator.org/blog/2009/07/29/video-shows-acorn-founder-wade

It's slimy like a snake, tricky like a snake, lies like a snake and nobody seems to recognize it for what it is. Federally funded Acorn, former employer of Barack Hussein Obama, is a communist enforcement organization.

The United States is in trouble.

# Joe says :
31 July, 2009 [ 22:51 ]

Chavez is a mindless, corrupt, power hungry, ignorant, loud mouth bully & bikini wearing thug!

# Carlos Benavides says :
1 August, 2009 [ 08:58 ]

Check out war on democracy1/10 in YouTube

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