HT to Captain EdA senior Venezuelan opposition leader has escaped from a military prison, the country's attorney general has said. Carlos Ortega was sentenced to almost 16 years in jail last year after being convicted of inciting unrest during a strike that began in late 2002.
| Opposition leader doing hard time in prison for leading a strike? Sure sounds 'democratic', doesn't it? |
hmmmm...had military help?
Ortega is known as a fierce opponent of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. In his role as a key union leader, Ortega, 59, played a central role in the 63-day strike that aimed to oust Mr Chavez from the presidency. He was arrested last March after returning to Venezuela from Costa Rica, where he sought asylum after the strike ended.
Attorney General Isias Rodriguez told Venezuelan TV that Ortega had escaped from prison. "Effectively at this moment the people who appear to have escaped are not in the Ramo Verde prison," he said.
| That's usually what they mean when they talk about an 'escape'. |
| Why, Hugo was going to beat him up? Civilians in a military prison, sounds like something a banana socialist state would do. |
