Costa Rica Asks Venezuelan Fugitive Carlos Ortega to Leave

[AP]

Caracas, March 30, 2004 (Venezuelanalysis.com).- The government of Costa Rica decided to ask Venezuelan fugitive Carlos Ortega to leave that country where he is currently living under political asylum.

Ortega, a political opponent to President Hugo Chavez who escaped authorities and was granted asylum by Costa Rica, participated at a political rally last Saturday in Miami, in which he gave a speech against the Venezuelan President, accusing him of being a dictator and of sinking the country into an economic crisis. During the speech, Ortega vowed to go back to Venezuela and work clandestinely to oust Chavez.

An official statement by Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, cites Ortega’s speech at the rally a a violation his asylum agreement of not making public political declarations against the government of Venezuela, the country where the asylum was requested. “The declarations by the asylum recipient are contrary to the spirit of the institution of territorial asylum and contrary to the obligations of those under asylum,” says the statement.

Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Relations, Jesus Perez, announced yesterday that Venezuela would send a note of protest to Costa Rica and to the United States in connection with Ortega's statements. Perez made the announcement before the government of Costa Rica had made public their decision to ask Ortega to leave.

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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1240

[AP]

1. Ortega wants to replace Chavez with a dictatorship:

{from the article:}

Last October, the tape of a conversation between Ortega and one of his allies in Venezuela, revealed a plan to prepare a "civil rebellion" with media support against Chavez. "We are going to need about 10, 12 or 15 years of dictatorship to rescue the country, I have no problem with that," said Ortega.

[arcos]

2. dupe... link to last night's thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=452331