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Arrests Ordered in Attack on Venezuelan Journalists
17 August 2009

CARACAS – A Caracas court ordered the arrests of two people allegedly involved in the attacks last week that left 12 journalists hurt when they were demonstrating in favor of freedom of expression, the Attorney General’s Office said on Monday.

Last Saturday, the AG’s office announced that it would present in court Gabriel Jesus Uzcategui Beumont, 28, who was arrested that day for his alleged part in the assault.

Last Thursday, 12 journalists handing out leaflets in favor of press freedom were injured by supporters of leftist President Hugo Chavez.

Marcos Ruiz, a reporter for Caracas daily Ultimas Noticias, was punched and beaten with clubs by at least four assailants, colleague Gledys Pastrana told Efe.

All of the journalists who were handing out leaflets to motorists and pedestrians on a busy street in the capital are employees of the Cadena Capriles group, one of Venezuela’s biggest media companies.

Besides the daily Ultimas Noticias, Capriles publishes two business newspapers: El Mundo Economia and Negocios, and the sports paper Lider.

The Chavez partisans arrived on the scene shouting “revolution” and “this street belongs to the people” and then pounced on the journalists, Pastrana said.

“We were there to peacefully distribute flyers and we were savagely beaten,” said reporter Ubaldo Arrieta.

The incident “is not a demonstration of respect for human rights,” Cadena Capriles’ president, Miguel Angel Capriles, told Venezuelan media.

Venezuela has been hauled before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on several occasions to answer complaints about attacks on news professionals, proceedings that resulted in orders to the government in Caracas to provide protection to specific journalists and outlets.

Most of Venezuela’s private media are outspokenly opposed to the Chavez government.

And do note the hallmark use of the color code as protest. This is a theme that has shown itself to work too well. Of course, with President Chávez it is a foregone conclusion which color to choose, but none the less, just as soon as the coup is consolidated in Honduras, the rumors and disinformation and bullshit attacks on bullshit protest start in to connect Chávez with violence in the streets... not omitting to connect him with FARC in the bargain. Doesn't matter how fantastic the allegations! You will only catch snippets and pretty soon, if you aren't already, you will be convinced that everything bad is Hugo Chávez's fault.

Stay awake.

Wake the fuck up and stay awake. A man backed by masters at this is in the Oval Office and he has shown no scruples whatsoever. Quit listening to his eloquent pie hole and just look at the stuff he's doing right out in the open for any who would look to see.