Chavez Foes Surrender and Then Are Sent Home
Two military officers who have instigated protests against President Hugo Chavez’s government turned themselves in under threat of arrest.
Air Force Col. Pedro Soto and National Guard Capt. Pedro Flores were allowed to go home pending investigations, Air Force chief Gen. Regulo Anselmo Espin said.
Soto and Flores demanded on Thursday that Chavez resign and said that they were speaking for most of the military. But the military said in a statement that “barracks were calm” and that its forces “would not succumb to provocations.”
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