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Tag: Leamsy Salazar

  • Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:45 UTC

    Venezuelan government targets opposition leader Capriles for making “false allegations”

    Interior Minister Gonzalez Lopez Twitted that Capriles, will have to explain to court why he described government officials, as “nepotistic and corrupt.”

    Barely one week after Venezuela’s President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Diosdado Cabello filed a defamation suit against 22 media executives and editors for publishing reports linking him to an international drug-trafficking, another high-level minister announced they would be filing suit against opposition leader Henrique Capriles for making “false allegations.”

  • Friday, January 30th 2015 - 08:25 UTC

    Chavez died December 2012 and not March 2013, says former bodyguard

    Leamsy Salazar who fled Venezuela earlier this week said late president Hugo Chávez did not die on 5 March 2013 but on 30 December 2012.

    A former bodyguard of Venezuela’s Socialist Party heavyweight Diosdado Cabello Leamsy Salazar, who fled the country earlier this week and was reportedly collaborating with US authorities investigating allegations of Venezuelan officials' involvement in drugs, said late president Hugo Chavez did not die on 5 March 2013 but on 30 December 2012.