Venezuela: Where Spying Is National Pride

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http://panampost.com/pedro-garcia/2015/10/26/venezuela-where-spying-is-national-pride/

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However, on the opposite side of the spectrum, we have the case of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. On October 15, in a nationwide radio and TV broadcast, he aired a private conversation, allegedly obtained without a warrant, between Venezuelan businessman Lorenzo Mendoza and Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann.+

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The day before, Chavismo‘s second in command, Diosdado Cabello, shamelessly aired the same video on his own broadcast. Several months ago, he sued three Venezuelan media outlets for republishing an exposé by Spanish newspaper ABC that accused him of leading a drug cartel.+

Not only do these leaders of Venezuela’s government have no qualms about spying on their opponents — that is, if Mendoza, the owner of Empresas Polar, and Hausmann, a university professor, can be considered as such — they also boast about it.+

It’s a moral striptease, but something to be expected from the same ilk that created a group of government informers called the “cooperating patriots.”+