Archive for September 22nd, 2008  The Miami Venezuelan
Maletagate trial part VII: The mysterious ways of Venezuelan
Justice as Maionica and Kauffman are charged in Caracas
September 22, 2008  On Friday, the Venezuelan Prosecutor ordered
the capture of Carlos Kauffmann and Moises Maionica for unknown
reasons. Thus they have become the three people who have similar
orders of capture in Venezuela when you add  the guy with
suticase Guido Antonini.  Funny, the only three people in the
case with such orders happen to be exactly those testifying
against the Venezuelan Government. But, for example, Daniel
Uzcategui, the son of the PDVSA Vice-President who got Antonini
on the plane has not been charged, neither has Franklin Duran,
despite the large number of corruption acts that Duran himself
admits being involved with. BTW, tonight Globovision reports
that the defense in the Miami case has asked that a conversation
between Uzcategui and Antonini taped after Duran was in jail,
not be admitted as evidence since it is