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Venezuela Congress Requests Impeachment Of Opposition Leader Manuel Rosales
El Universal (Venezuela) ^ | 9 Mar 2007 | Staff

Posted on 03/10/2007 7:17:00 PM PST by Kitten Festival

The National Assembly (AN) will urge the Attorney General Office to request the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) pretrial on the merits against Zulia Governor and major opposition leader Manuel Rosales.

During a plenary session, the AN agreed on taking action against Rosales for presumed lack of observance, to the detriment of Zulia government staff.

According to a press release from the Parliament, in 2006 the Zulia government received USD 203,572,800 in additional lending, part of which should have been used to pay labor liabilities.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.eluniversal.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chavez; hugoping; revenge; rosales; rubberstamp
Hugo moves in to get revenge at his political opponent, whom he claims to have beaten at the ballot box. Fact is, Hugo knows Rosales won and Hugo is scared of him. By doing this, he seeks to terrify his opposition.
1 posted on 03/10/2007 7:17:07 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: proud_yank; StJacques

Chavez/Venezuela Ping

Latin-American Left Ping


2 posted on 03/10/2007 7:19:50 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Kitten Festival

These folks are rolling on the totalitarian road like it's going out of style.


3 posted on 03/10/2007 7:22:22 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Army Air Corps

Let the purges begin!


4 posted on 03/10/2007 7:26:47 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers
Honestly, that is what is coming. He has followed the Marxist/Maoist playbook to a "T".

Silence the press - check

Hold rigged elections - check

Start creation of Potemkin Villages - check

force opposition from participation in government - pending...
5 posted on 03/10/2007 7:31:19 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Kitten Festival

I think at one point the Roman Senate "requested" that Caligula's horse be made a senator - really a reflection on the elected body rather that the horse.


6 posted on 03/10/2007 7:33:19 PM PST by gondramB (It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.)
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To: Army Air Corps

"Honestly, that is what is coming. He has followed the Marxist/Maoist playbook to a "T"."

I think he may be moving too fast. He doesn't have an island prison like Castro had, nor the Germans and Japs at his heals to enforce military justice like Stalin, Mao, Lenin did. He's his own little tornado without an instigating outer force, so I suspect vast hordes will just walk away and let the place crumble. The fall could be quite swift, I suspect the oil sector could crumble and leave him hold the bag.


7 posted on 03/10/2007 7:51:12 PM PST by FastCoyote
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To: FastCoyote

Your statement about the petroleum industry is already coming true. According to many threads on FR, he has mismanaged the State-owned oil company to the point that it has incurred financial loss.

The concern is what this whackjob does between now and when one of his own cuases him to die of lead poisoning.


8 posted on 03/10/2007 7:55:53 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
force opposition from participation in government - pending...

He seems to be well on the way to barring the opposition. I think this is the beginning of the show trial phase. After a few show trials of famous people, the system will be geared up to entrap ordinary citizens.

9 posted on 03/10/2007 8:28:48 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Yes. Like I stated, the stage is pending.

He is leading Venezuela, step-by-step, into the same foul pit in which Cuba resides. I suspect that re-education camps are in the works.


10 posted on 03/10/2007 8:35:37 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Or a bullet in the brain.


11 posted on 03/10/2007 9:28:14 PM PST by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: Kitten Festival

How do you impeach someone who is not in power?


12 posted on 03/10/2007 9:34:35 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Army Air Corps

Venezuela makes me believe that the democrat party could do exactly the same thing here.


13 posted on 03/10/2007 10:15:07 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: Army Air Corps

He can't do that until he's put all obvious opposition figures behind bars or 6 feet under. After that, he'll go after his less enthusiastic supporters in his own party.


14 posted on 03/11/2007 8:59:26 AM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: kanawa; jazusamo; Thunder90; Hill of Tara; Victoria Delsoul; Army Air Corps; monkeywrench; cll; ...


PING – Hugo is at it again!

Please FReepmail me if you would like on/off the Hugo/Venezuela Ping list.

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15 posted on 03/11/2007 11:12:16 PM PDT by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: proud_yank

Thanks for the ping, PY. I don't see much hope for Venezuela with this guy in power.


16 posted on 03/12/2007 6:50:40 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (If you think the world's dangerous, and you need a tough guy... that's me [Rudy] --Newt Gingrich)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Same here. One of the guys from Houston, who is aiding our project, is originally from Venezuela. He is not allowed to work there anymore because of Hugo. There is another woman who had a similar past.

This guy is a PhD chemist, and quite bright. I forget her name (I haven't met her before), but the woman is a talented engineer. They say that Hugo has replaced industry bosses with his own thugs, and its the talented people (the ones who realize socialism doesn't work) who get axed for dissenting.

On the other hand, I'll gladly welcome talented people to the States, who realize socialism is a load!


17 posted on 03/12/2007 8:14:42 PM PDT by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: proud_yank

That's very unfortunate. There is nothing good that people can get from Communism. Unfortunately, ignorance keeps plenty of people from finding out the truth until it's too late.


18 posted on 03/12/2007 8:21:32 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (If you think the world's dangerous, and you need a tough guy... that's me [Rudy] --Newt Gingrich)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Communism and liberalism are a means to slavery. I really wish some of our liberals would go and spend a year in such a workers' paradise.


19 posted on 03/12/2007 9:46:45 PM PDT by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: Kitten Festival
Sounds like Senor Rosales may want to try a change of scenery. I don't think this impeachment is in line with the Webster's definition but may be just like a mob "retirement".
20 posted on 03/12/2007 9:51:53 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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