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Venezuela holds Chavez critic for "conspiracy"

by EdHannigan Mar 23, 2010 8:43AM PDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62M2UL20100323

The detention of Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, a veteran with the opposition COPEI party but not one of Chavez's most prominent foes, will fuel criticism that the Venezuelan leader is taking his nation down an increasingly dictatorial route.

Alvarez joins a list of several dozen Chavez opponents now in jail, living in exile or facing probes in the South American oil-producing country.

With the political atmosphere heating up before legislative elections in September -- seen as a barometer for a 2012 presidential vote -- Chavez says his opponents are increasingly breaking laws in their desperation to topple him.
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I can tell you this, Anne Coulter better stay the hell out of Venezuela!

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