Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Venezuela president grants amnesty to accused coup supporters
Mike Rosen-Molina at 11:35 AM ET
{JURIST} Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
has signed a decree granting amnesty to anyone involved in an aborted 2002 coup against him, as well as other attempts to assassinate him or overthrow the government, Chavez said in a Monday phone call to state television. The law would grant amnesty to anyone who signed a declaration in support of interim President Pedro Carmona during the coup. Chavez described the amnesty as a way of "turning the page."
In 2004, Venezuelan prosecutor Danilo Anderson was killed by a car bomb; Chavez said that Venezuelan exiles in the US were behind the assassination . The killing was supposedly aimed at halting the prosecution of those who supported the 2002 coup against Chavez, which was followed by a two-month national strike and Chavez's triumphant return to power. Anderson was preparing a case against nearly 400 people who had signed a declaration supporting Carmona.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/01/venezuela-president-grants-amnesty-to.php
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