Venezuela's Maduro Deems Outbreak of Deadly Disease 'Terrorism'

[Bacchus4.0]

http://online.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-maduro-deems-outbreak-of-deadly-disease-terrorism-1411083807


CARACAS, Venezuela—President Nicolás Maduro said he ordered the prosecution of doctors who had alerted the public to the recent deaths of nine people in a public hospital from an unidentified but possibly infectious disease.

"They wanted to impose a scheme of alarm, of psychological terrorism," Mr. Maduro said Wednesday in a speech broadcast on TV. "There is no other name for this, it's terrorism."

He said he had spoken with Attorney General Luisa Ortega "so that our organs of justice work with severity, with all the firmness and severity that the law permits. You have to punish these people."

Mr. Maduro's warnings come after doctors said publicly said that they suspected a possible outbreak of Chikungunya disease, which is carried by mosquitoes from victim to victim, in the city of Maracay just west of here. Mr. Maduro's government, which has lost support amid an economic crisis and soaring crime, hasn't said what it believes caused the deaths.

[gordianot]

1. There she goes again Mother Nature.

[cali]

2. fuck. that really is stupid.

[Archae]

3. The bus driver will blame the CIA...

Count on it.

[MADem]

4. Who knew that a leader of a country could be quite such a nitwit?

Wonder how many more of those Cuban doctors will say "We really ARE in crazyville" and hop over the border to Colombia and try to get asylum in USA after this latest lunacy?

[seveneyes]

5. Ignorance by decree

How long can this go on? Revolt of the intelligent can't be too far off.

[sufrommich]

6. I guess it could have been worse.

He could have blamed witchcraft.