Breaking: Leftist Hero Hugo Chavez Jails Opposition Leader On Bogus Explosives Charges
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 15, 2010, 5:21 AM
Leftist hero Marxist Hugo Chavez jailed top Venezuelan Opposition Leader this week in Venezuela.
Freedom advocate and former Venezuelan presidential candidate Alejandro Pena Esclusa was arrested on trumped up explosives charges by the Marxist Chavez regime on Monday. Esclusa was detained at his apartment by Chavez agents acting on a court order. The regime reported that they found explosives and more than 100 detonators. Unoamerica, a group headed by Pena, said Tuesday his arrest “is part of a Cuban operation that looks to link opposition leaders with terrorist acts.”
The New American reported:
Long-time freedom advocate and former Venezuelan presidential candidate Alejandro Pena Esclusa was arrested on July 12 by the Chavez regime on trumped-up explosives charges, according to various Latin American sources. His arrest adds to the growing list of political prisoners being held in Venezuela including journalists, opposition politicians, and judges who don’t bow down to the regime.
Minions of socialist “President” Hugo Chavez claim a recently arrested Salvadorian man, wanted for alleged connections to bombings in Cuba, informed Venezuelan authorities that he was working with Esclusa. The alleged “terrorist,” Francisco Abarca, was arrested in Venezuela last week for supposedly plotting to destabilize the government. He is now in Cuba facing charges, ensuring that no independent confirmation of Abarca’s alleged testimony against Esclusa will be allowed. Experts also question Abarca’s involvement in the 1997 Cuban bombings.
The day of his own arrest, Esclusa posted a video online explaining that he feared being jailed on fake charges because the government was trying to link him to Abarca. But, he noted, “I don’t believe in violence. I believe in opinion.” That is the same message he shared with The New American in an interview earlier this year.
The controlled Venezuelan media, however, has been quick to condemn him. “Alejandro Pena Esclusa is a dark character of the Venezuelan opposition linked to fascist sectors and with a thick file of conspiratorial activities against the government of President Hugo Chavez,” reported the Chavez regime’s official propaganda organ, ABN. “Fascist” in Chavez-speak means anyone opposed to the utter destruction being wrought on Venezuela’s economy through the regime’s “revolution.”
But those who know Esclusa, as well as opponents of the socialist revolution and even unbiased observers, are certain that the charges were politically motivated. His wife, for example, denounced the arrest and said authorities had framed her husband.
…Chavez has shut down dozens of media outlets in radio, television, and newspaper. He regularly arrests critics, including the head of the last remaining balanced television station (on charges of “insulting the chief executive”), politicians who disagree with his power grabs, and even judges who don’t unhesitatingly do his bidding. He also frequently steals private property in the name of his “revolution,” driving the economy into the ground.
No wonder Hollywood and the far left love Chavez.
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Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
Sean Penn’s hero at work!
neomom commented:
Maybe NOTUS will try to imprison Sarah or mitt. That would be one of the more violent days in American history.
Opus #6 commented:
I imagine the evidence was carefully placed there before it was “discovered”.
Tyranny.
Militant Conservative commented:
Shhhhhhh, Obozo needs no help. powder is dry.
Highlander commented:
“Just as the democratic statesman who sets out to plan economic life will soon be confronted with the alternative of either assuming dictatorial powers or abandoning his plans, so the totalitarian dictator would soon have to choose between disregard of ordinary morals and failure”. – F. A. Hayek, “The Road To Serfdom”.
It’s plain where Chavez is along this path. The question is, where is Obama?
StandUpChuck commented:
I cant wait to see Hugo put out of his misery Mussolini style.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Yep.. this is what these people do. It is who they are.
I fully expect Team Obama to start acting similarly if/when they believe themselves cornered and start feeling pressured about their policies failings and consider themselves besieged.
To them, there is nothing wrong with their policies and they truly believe that any failures in that regard are because of the nasty opposition who simply are too stupid to see the genius of their grand plans. And if they just remove the opposition, their policies will be a great success.
Again, it is who these people are. They can no more act differently than a dog can stop barking and start sounding like a cat.
J commented:
And this is what the voters of venezuela chose at the election booth……just like we chose the failure obama, at the polls. And, given the 45-50 percent approval rating AFTER ALL THIS FAILURE, it is possible the voters of the USA will re-elect obama.
aro5o75 commented:
Obowma will be following in his hero’s footsteps.
bill-tb commented:
Hunger and starvation is spreading throughout Venezuela … gulags and guns are all that is left now. Other people’s money has officially ran out, so how long can Hugo keep the Venezuelan useful idiot ignorants happy.
listingstarboard commented:
Hate to say it but there seems to be more of “them” than “us”. One of the biggest clues pre-election to Obama’s true agenda was the hearty endorsement by Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinijad etc. They have been on a spree of clamping down even harder on their peoples ever since Obama got in power. The signs were there. Our citizens refused to see what was right in front of them and voted for this destroyer.
chuck in st paul commented:
Eric Holder is taking notes.
kato commented:
Hugo Chavez is the greatest.
Yours truly,
Jeff Spicoli
Socratize commented:
For those who want to take a closer look into the case, I recommend two things:
Watch the video (with English subtitles) Mr. Peña Esclusa recorded a few hours before he was arrested by Chávez, explaining why the Venezuelan president wants to incriminate him as a terrorist. Here are the YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQm0OO3G_jQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDmtMw4DhY&feature=related
Also watch the video Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho recorded denouncing Chávez’s fraudulent arrest of Mr. Peña Esclusa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokwPgPmorI
Lukeweyland commented:
If Alejandro Pena is found by the courts to be innocent – he will go free.
However if the courts hold him to be guilty, the US and the Yanqistas will make him a martyr.
Unlike the USA, Venezuela has an independant judiciary
Hugo Chavez is a democratically elected and re-elected president.
Socratize commented:
Yes, Mr. Lukeweyland, I agree with you. The Venezuelan justice system is really independent: in order to condemn Chávez’s opponents, it will not depend on any evidence, logic, common sense, or due legal process.
How can one possibly believe that Mr. Pena Esclusa would keep explosives and detonators in the drawer of his 8-year-old daughter’s desk (after all, that’s what Chávez’s political police says) when the detention of his alleged “terrorist accomplice” was all over the news?
Think about it: if you are plotting an internationally connected terrorist attack against the president of your country, and in the middle of the process, your partner gets arrested and mentions your name on national TV, are you going to stay at home, eating sandwiches with your family, and keeping explosives and detonators in the drawer of your daughter’s desk, waiting to be caught?
What’s more: Why would Mr. Peña Esclusa even think of plotting a terrorist attack if he himself is suing Chávez in the International Court of Justice for terrorism (since Chávez is a member of the São Paulo Forum, which is an umbrella organization for left-wing political parties, drug-dealers (the FARC), and kidnappers (the FARC and the Chilean MIR)?
And what about Chávez Abarca, the alleged international terrorist who supposedly came to Venezuela to plot a terrorist attack with Mr. Peña Esclusa. There is no evidence at all that Chávez Abarca is a terrorist. The only piece of evidence against him is that he was arrested for car theft and smuggling.
Would anyone in his right mind (especially if this anyone is a public figure and a former presidential candidate) get together with a car thief to plot a terrorist attack against the president of a country? What would their plan be? To steal a tank and launch rockets against the president?
And this is only part of the story. There is much, much more.
The fact of the matter, sir, is that Pena Esclusa, as the last video he recorded before he was arrested shows, has been the victim of a character-assassination campaign led by Chávez for a long time, and now we know why.
As to your argument that if Pena Esclusa is found innocent, he will go free, I would like to point out the fact that the Catholic Bishops of Venezuela beg to disagree with the rosy democratic/lawful picture of Venezuela that you paint. On July 12, 2010, on the same day, Mr. Pena Esclusa was arrested, the Bishops of Venezuela made a public statement saying:
“People want to live in democracy, under the rule of law, with a real participation of all citizens, in a climate of justice and freedom,” the bishops said. “Therefore, the imposition of a socialist state inspired by the Cuban communist regime that has been enforced through laws and facts that ignore the popular will and the Constitution is absolutely unacceptable.” (http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6924)
And yesterday, Chávez, just for a change, blasted the Pope saying:
“The pope isn’t God’s emissary on Earth”.
(http://www.zeenews.com/news641050.html)
And last but not least: Hitler was also elected “democratically,” and so are Castro and Kim Jong Il. China calls itself a democratic republic. That makes you think, doesn’t it?