Venezuela criticizes U.S., while its decree sparks fears of domestic spying
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‘Venezuelans may be forced to spy on their neighbors or risk prison terms under President Hugo Chavez’s new intelligence decree,’ says the Associated Press.
‘Chavez says the law quietly decreed last week will help detect and neutralize national security threats, including assassination or coup plots. But many Venezuelans are worried that they could face prison for failing to act as informers.’
Meanwhile, at Tuesday’s closing of the Organization of American States assembly in Medellín, Colombia, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro ‘repeated past accusations that the United States is sowing division within Latin America, and he called once again on the Bush administration to extradite Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela,’ according to this Miami Herald story.
‘Posada lives in Miami and is wanted in Venezuela on charges that he bombed a Cuban passenger liner in 1976. He has denied the charge.’
-- Reed Johnson in Mexico City
