Student leader abandons refuge in Caracas

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN

March 9th, 2009
Student leader abandons refuge in Caracas
Posted: 06:20 PM ET

CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) — A student who led protests against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has left the Vatican mission where he had been holed up for nearly two years, his lawyer said Monday.

Nixon Moreno had entered the nunciature in Caracas on March 13, 2007, seeking refugee status, lawyer Tamara Suju told CNN affiliate Globovision.

His whereabouts Monday were not clear.

Moreno sought refuge in the center after being accused of the attempted rape of a police functionary and the wounding of several police officers during an anti-government protest in 2006.

Read more: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/09/student-leader-abandons-refuge-in-caracas/

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Nixon Moreno

[Demeter]

1. Named After Nixon?!! that explains a lot

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

2. Nixon is a popular name in Latin America n/t

[IndianaGreen]

19. Perhaps among rightwingers

Nixon is not a popular name either in Latin America or in the USA.

[EFerrari]

22. My grandmother had a name for Nixon that translates roughly

as "assassin face". That was long before Watergate. She didn't speak a word of English either.

[David Dunham]

3. Chavez has ruined Venezuala and should go.

[Neo Atheist]

4. I agree wholeheartedly

[Peace Patriot]

5. Nice little echo chamber. No facts. nt

[Neo Atheist]

9. shutting down press because they don't agree with chavez

taking private property from people for being "enemies of the revolution"
aligning himself with regimes like Ahmadinejad's theo-fascist little "republic"

[EFerrari]

10. Uhm, 75% of the media in Venezuela is owned by the opposition.

And they ream him every day.

And the private property of individuals is not being confiscated in that way. Transnationals are getting hit for stripping the rain forest and for trying to work around producing staples as per their operating permits.

/ack, typo

[Neo Atheist]

11. care to back up that statistic?

re: the amount of control of the Venezuelan media the opposition has.

[EFerrari]

12. Do you have The Google?

http://www.democracyunlimited.org/mediademocracyinvenezuela.html

To give you an example of how tolerant Venezuela is, RCTV actively participated in the 2002 coup. They were not shut down or sent to prison as Fox officials would be had they tried the same thing against Bush. The government just waited for FIVE YEARS for their license to expire. RCTV is still on cable. :)

[Bacchus39]

13. RCTV on cable. how many of Venezuela's poor have cable?

google that for us.

[Mika]

18. Always at the ready to defend RW anti democratic goons, thugs, and henchmen.

Damn that evil bastard Chavez for not giving all the people free cable. :crazy:

[Judi Lynn]

17. Why haven't you taken the time to do any work on your own on this?

Don't you imagine the truly intelligent people here KNOW what they're talking about?

By spending only moments in doing any decent research you'll stumble across more material than you can handle to back up what EFerrari told you. This is NOT the place to come to try to bully people around. We do our homework and don't just "wing it," like idiot right-wingers do, or people speaking in tongues!

HOW HATE MEDIA INCITED THE COUP AGAINST THE PRESIDENT

Venezuela’s press power

Never even in Latin American history has the media been so directly involved in a political coup. Venezuela’s ’hate media’ controls 95% of the airwaves and has a near-monopoly over newsprint, and it played a major part in the failed attempt to overthrow the president, Hugo Chávez, in April. Although tensions in the country could easily spill into civil war, the media is still directly encouraging dissident elements to overthrow the democratically elected president - if necessary by force.

by Maurice Lemoine

"We had a deadly weapon: the media. And now that I have the opportunity, let me congratulate you." In Caracas, on 11 April 2002, just a few hours before the temporary overthrow of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, Vice-Admiral Victor Ramírez Pérez congratulated journalist Ibéyiste Pacheco live on Venevision television. Twenty minutes earlier, when Pacheco had begun to interview a group of rebel officers, she could not resist admitting, conspiratorially, that she had long had a special relationship with them.

At the same time, in a live interview from Madrid, another journalist, Patricia Poleo, also seemed well informed about the likely future development of "spontaneous events". She announced on the Spanish channel TVE: "I believe the next president is going to be Pedro Carmona." Chávez, holed up in the presidential palace, was still refusing to step down.

After Chávez came to power in 1998, the five main privately owned channels - Venevisión, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), Globovisión and CMT - and nine of the 10 major national newspapers, including El Universal, El Nacional, Tal Cual, El Impulso, El Nuevo País, and El Mundo, have taken over the role of the traditional political parties, which were damaged by the president’s electoral victories. Their monopoly on information has put them in a strong position. They give the opposition support, only rarely reporting government statements and never mentioning its large majority, despite that majority’s confirmation at the ballot box. They have always described the working class districts as a red zone inhabited by dangerous classes of ignorant people and delinquents. No doubt considering them unphotogenic, they ignore working class leaders and organisations.

More:
http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/10venezuela

[Mika]

20. The poster is working.

Per post, it seems.
Always RW BS. Reliably. Steadfast. Resolute. In support of RW hit men and thugs.

[Judi Lynn]

23. Invariably! Not a shred of character. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

14. Welcome to DU, Neo Atheist! Those aren't facts. They're just recycled "talking points"

from corpo/fascist media.

"...shutting down press because they don't agree with chavez"

Prove it. As far as I know--from reading numerous reports, both corpo/fascist and alternative media, hostile to Chavez and not, Chavez denied a license renewal to ONE STATION, because of their active role in the 2002 coup attempt. It was a perfectly lawful thing for the government to do; many governments deny licenses to use the public airwaves with far less cause than the Chavez government had. How is that "shutting down press"? It affected no other TV stations, and no newspapers--and there are plenty of both in Venezuela, with the rightwing more than amply represented.

"taking private property from people for being 'enemies of the revolution'"

Please give examples. And do you mean corporations, or ordinary people? The Venezuelan Constitution protects private property, and requires that the government compensate owners for any private property that the government acquires for its own purposes (road construction, land reform, etc.). I know of no large-scale government acquisitions of private property in Venezuela, and no such acquisitions that have not been compensated. (The land reform program has involved mostly government lands, thus far.) So, I repeat, please give examples, and it would be good to have sufficient examples to judge whether it merits such a general accusation as you have made. And please be apprised: corporations are not people; they are government-licensed business consortiums that are permitted to do business in a country, if they obey the laws and the terms of the license. Our government takes individuals' homes, cars and other properties on the mere allegation of drug use, possession or trade. The Chavez government does no such thing, that I have ever heard of. It doesn't take individuals' property--but it has taken property that Exxon Mobil alleged that it owned, for instance, because Exxon Mobil refused to operate under the laws and terms set down by the government. Corporations have no rights not granted to them by "the people" of a sovereign, democratic country, and cannot be permitted to be scofflaws. They will destroy your country, if you let them--as is happening here.

"...aligning himself with regimes like Ahmadinejad's theo-fascist little 'republic'"

Chavez is aligned with the Bolivarian democracies, and other leftist and center-left democracies in South and Central America. He is most closely aligned with Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Nicaragua. He is closest friends and allies with Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, Cristina Fernandez, president of Argentina, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Rafael Correa of Ecuador. He is merely trading with Iran; also, with Russia, China, France, England, Norway and other countries, including every Latin American country. It is simply not true that he is "aligned" with "Ahmadinejad's theo-fascist little 'republic.'" Obama trades with Saudi Arabia. Does that mean that Obama is "aligned with" Saudi Arabia's theo-fascist monarchy? Further, Venezuela is a member of OPEC. It is perfectly appropriate that Venezuela should have diplomatic and trade relations with other members of OPEC, as it does with MERCOSUR, UNASUR and ALBA--South American trade groups. Why do you mention ONE COUNTRY that Venezuela has trade relations with, and no others, and none of the countries that Venezuela is actually aligned with?

[bitchkitty]

16. That's interesting.

I have to tell you though, it was somewhat incomprehensible.
Can I see your footnotes?

:rofl:

[Andrushka]

21. Huh?

What press has he supposedly "shut down"?

Bereft of facts, all ht air - typical for the typical knee-jerk anti-Chavez poster.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Facts, please. nt

[EFerrari]

8. It's code. My uncle Carlos says things like that all the time.

"Chavez is ignorant" means, he's a little brown guy who isn't owned by multinationals. Get with the program. :)

[EFerrari]

7. Seriously. Poor people can read their constitution, they get their votes counted,

transnationals are being kicked out for lawbreaking. South America is independent from the IMF. The whole damn place is going straight to hell.

[Peace Patriot]

15. It's interesting how the anti-democracy crowd jumps in and tries to divert attention

from news about the true character of many of the rightwing leaders in Venezuela--people who riot, who harm the police, who instigate coups and try to destabilize their own country, and who are often criminals, in this case, a criminal on the run. Another Bushwhack-USAID trainee--one of the leaders of the "student" brownshirts--was gunned down in a gang-style hit last year, and found to have a million dollars in his bank account. He had been involved in a student bus pass fraud, and apparently in drug trafficking, among other things. This is one of the reasons that the Chavez government is so popular in Venezuela, and keeps getting re-elected: the rightwing is so obviously disreputable, out for themselves, greedy, and dishonorable.