Venezuelan blogger detained by police
Venezuelan blogger Alexis Marrero (links in Spanish) was detained by police while putting up some posters asking people to vote NO on the upcoming constitutional referendum that would eliminate term limits on Chavez.
Martha Colmenares writes that Marrero was released later today, but has to appear in court tomorrow.
The intimidation campaign continues.
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February 5th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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February 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Fausta,
Didn’t Chavez already lose a similar referendum? How many do overs does he get?
February 6th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Yes, he already lost once, now he’s going for a second try, and earlier this week he said he’ll keep trying if he doesn’t get his way this time around.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
[...] Marrero is a well-known campaigner against Chávez and his blog (in Spanish) can be found here. Fausta has these news translated to English: Venezuelan blogger Alexis Marrero (link in Spanish) was detained by police while putting up some [...]
February 7th, 2009 at 9:07 am
[...] Venezuelan blogger detained by police [...]
February 13th, 2009 at 9:59 am
hi fausta,
just a note for your visitors,
you mention “the upcoming constitutional referendum that would eliminate term limits on Chavez”,
but it is actually a referendum asking voters whether they want to allow that all elected positions within the venezuelan political structure (city majors, congress members, state governeurs, country’s president, anybody) participate in new elections without any other limit than not winning those elections, instead of the actual situation, which is being able to only win twice in a raw and then have to abandon the function, even if voters are willing to re-elect them.
the term of those functions will not be altered.