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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:17 PM Jun 2017

Because kidnapping politicians is what reasonable socialists everywhere do?

WORLD NEWS | Thu Jun 15, 2017 | 8:47am EDT
Venezuela politician's 'disappearance' stirs Chavez's home state
By Andrew Cawthorne | BARINAS, VENEZUELA

He had just left his office by car and was passing a nearby church when the state security vans swooped in on Wilmer Azuaje.

Put on a military plane hours later on May 3, the 40-year-old regional lawmaker - one of the best-known opposition figures in the rural home state of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - has not been seen since.

"He's disappeared. They kidnapped him. There is complete silence," said his mother, Carmen Cordero, who has been traveling between Barinas state and the capital, Caracas, to seek information on him at the headquarters of national intelligence service Sebin.

There has been no official word on Azuaje's case, and requests to authorities for information went unanswered.

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Read more here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-arrest-idUSKBN1961HD

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Because kidnapping politicians is what reasonable socialists everywhere do? (Original Post) GatoGordo Jun 2017 OP
As expected, our resident UI's keep silent Marksman_91 Jun 2017 #1
They post drivel GatoGordo Jun 2017 #2
Yep. Pretty obvious Zorro Jun 2017 #3
 

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
1. As expected, our resident UI's keep silent
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 01:00 PM
Jun 2017

Like I said, they don't care about human rights abuses so long as the government that carries them out considers itself left-Wing.

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