Journalist charged in Venezuela after anti-Maduro protest

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKCN11B22V


A prominent journalist and lawyer jailed on Venezuela's Margarita island was charged on Monday with money laundering, according to family and a rights group, following his arrest after publicizing a protest against President Nicolas Maduro.

Videos published by activists, purportedly from the locality of Villa Rosa, showed scores of people banging pots and pans and jeering the socialist leader as he visited the island on Friday evening.

More than 30 people were briefly detained, activists said on Saturday.

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All those held in Margarita were released after a few hours except Braulio Jatar, 58, who was picked up on Saturday morning on his way to host his regular morning radio show, according to his family.

[Marksman_91]

1. Silence dissent. Jail journalists. Keep the truth from being told

Maduro is following the Dictator's Handbook to a T. Now I wonder if our resident useful idiots (please look up this term before flagging this comment or censoring it if you're part of a jury. It's a commonly used term used for anyone considered propagandist for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause, and in most cases are puppets for left-wing authoritarian regimes) will be willing to defend this.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Yeah, I think the idea is scare people into not publishing these types of videos

where Maduro is literally getting run out of town. There doesn't seem to be much left for the chavistas to screw up in Venezuela but I am sure they will find something.