World Challenges for the XXIst century

As I told you here, Alexis Marrero is a blogger opposed to Chávez who was arrested because he was putting up some posters in suport of the “No” to the Chávez’s constitutional amendment which would made him aVenezuelan life dictator president. He has posted about his detention, giving some more data about what happened.

Firstly, he just have left his companions, most of them students, to buy something to drink, when the police approached the group to tell them that they should stop doing it. He got back to tell the police that putting up posters is something normal in any democratic elections. But the policemen insisted that according to their instructions, they were not allowed to put up or just stop in that place to put up any posters, so they could choose between abandoning the place or being arrested.

One of the companions, Ramón Ramírez, told the police that “this was an antidemocratic attitude“, so the policeman just left. But he was approached by someone who later identified himself as a “majorship’s civil servant“, who spoke to him for a while and later came back with another three policemen.

The policeman got where the youths were and told them something Alexis couldn’t hear, but he got where the policemen where nevertheless. After that, they were arrested , pushed and brought to a near-by police station. They were then questioned about nearly everything and then released in three hours.

But at 12 am (next morning), police officers got to Alexis’ house where some of the protesters had gathered and while he was talking on the phone to Martha Colmenares. The policemen entered the house with guns in their hands and brought them somewhere they don’t know (a grim place, according to the description)  at 5pm, after hours of “psychological warfare“. Then they were told they were not detained: on the contrary they were just guests there. But no one informed them about who has ordered the arrest or the forced entry in their house.

They were told then to wait for the Prosecutor to arrive. But when a girl who said that was “an auxiliary Prosecutor“, but who provided no identification toback her claim, arrived, she just told them they could go home.

By the way, at the same time Chávez intimidates the opposition, he calls the people to vote him “for love“. What a jackass…

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