Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $26,157
32%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 32%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: chaveztwitter

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Raid on home of Twitter user suspected of spreading Chávez health rumours

    01/07/2013 8:15:43 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 12 replies
    guardian.co.uk, ^ | Monday 7 January 2013 19.38 EST | Jonathan Watts and Virginia Lopez
    Venezuelan intelligence officers have raided the home of a Twitter user suspected of spreading destabilising rumours about the health of Hugo Chávez ahead of an inauguration that the ailing president looks increasingly unlikely to attend. The team of Sebin (Bolivarian National Intelligence Service) officers confiscated several computers from Medina's home in Valencia on Sunday night, according to domestic newspapers. Analysts on the state-backed channel Telesur claimed the government was under information attack. "This is an information war. All through the Bolivarian revolution you have seen this sustained information war. Twitter and the social networks are just extensions of this war,"...