Venezuelan Chavez Foe Arrives for Asylum
From Times Wire Reports —
An opposition leader charged with treason for directing a two-month strike against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, after being granted asylum.
At the Foreign Ministry later, Carlos Ortega told reporters that his exile “doesn’t mean the democratic movements in Venezuela will come to an end.”
Ortega was president of the million-member Venezuelan Workers Confederation.
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