THE ORGANIZATION INDEPENDENT VENEZUELAN AMERICAN CITIZENS (IVAC) EXPRESSES ITS PROFOUND AND UNRESERVED CONDEMNATION TO THE ARREST WARRANT ISSUED BY THE VENEZUELAN 13TH CONTROL COURT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OF GLOBOVISIÓN, DR. GUILLERMO ZULUOGA, AND HIS SON WILLIAM ZULOAGA SISO.
ONCE AGAIN WE SEE HOW MUCH AT RISK ARE HUMAN RIGHTS IN VENEZUELA WHERE THERE IS NO INDEPENDENCE AMONG THE GOVERNMENT’S LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES AND WHERE DAY BY DAY THERE IS LESS FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA.
THIS ACTION TAKEN BY THE VENEZUELAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM, AT ONLY 9 DAYS AFTER PRESIDENT CHAVEZ AGAIN THREATENED DOCTOR ZULOAGA, IS POLITICAL PERSECUTION AT ITS BEST AND A PURE AND SIMPLE ACT OF RETALIATION AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OF THE SINGLE TV STATION THAT IS STILL FEARLESSLY TRANSMITTING DAILY NEWS AS THEY OCCUR AND INFORMATION THAT ADVERSES THE EXECUTIVE BY EXPOSING ITS MANY FAULTS, DISREGARDING ITS CONTINUOUS THREATS.
WE SEE WITH GREAT CONCERN HOW THE GOVERNMENT MAKES THESE ESCALATIONS AGAINST OUR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION JUST WHEN THE TV STATION, GLOBOVISIÓN, HAS BEEN TRANSMITTING THIS WEEK NUMEROUS REPORTS ON THE RECENT FINDINGS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS OF IMPORTED FOOD, LEFT TO DECOMPOSE, IN CONTAINERS SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN SITTING ON THE YARDS, ROTTING FOR OVER A YEAR. THE CONTAINERS HAVE BEEN FOUND ON SEVERAL NATIONAL SEA-PORT YARDS AND WAREHOUSES. THE FOOD WAS BOUGHT BY THE VENEZUELAN OIL COMPANY, PDVSA, THROUGH ITS SUBSIDIARY, PDVAL, WHICH IS PART OF THE NETWORK INSTITUTIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL WHAT IS BEING PRODUCED, IMPORTED, DISTRIBUTED AND SOLD TO THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE.
WE EXPRESS OUR SUPPORT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE TV STATION GLOBOVISIÓN, MR.GUILLERMO ZULOAGA, AS WELL AS ALL OF THE PERSONNEL AND THE STAFF OF JOURNALISTS THAT WORK IN THAT STATION WHO HAVE BEEN THE OBJECT OF CONSTANT PRESSURES AND HARRASSMENT BY THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT, HIS GOVERNMENT AND HIS FOLLOWERS FOR MANY YEARS NOW.
WE HEREBY COURTEOUSLY REQUEST THE SECRETARY OF STATE, HILARY CLINTON, SENATOR GEORGE LE MIEUX, OUR CONGRESSMEN ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, MARIO DIAZ-BALAR, LINCLON DIAZ BALART AND CONNIE MACK, TO CONDEM THIS NEW WAVE OF REPRESSION BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MR. HUGO CHAVEZ FRIAS.
WE ALSO ASK FOR THE CONGRESS AND SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A RESOLUTION ENERGYCALLY COMNDENING THE BRUTAL VIOLATION OF THE LAWS, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION WHICH ARE BEING VIOLATED, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, BY MR HUGO CHAVEZ FRIAS IN VENEZUELA.
ONCE MORE WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST, THROUGH OUR AMBASSADOR TO THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, MRS. CARMEN LOMEDIN, THE CONVENIENCE OF IMPLEMENTING THE DEMOCRATIC CHARTER TO VENEZUELA.
THE BOARD OF IVAC
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